We’ve been fortunate to have just a little bit of water in our basement in the past week. The devastation in northern and eastern Iowa has been incredible. Mason City is without potable water. A major bridge in Waterloo was destroyed, all bridges in downtown Cedar Rapids are closed, and Dubuque Street in Iowa City is under water near the Mayflower dorm.
Our CSA (community-supported agriculture) farmer couldn’t deliver her veggies to Des Moines this week, because the only road out of her farm near Kanawha is under water.
The Lefty Blogs Iowa page culls posts from quite a few blogs, and right now you’ll find a lot of coverage of the flooding there:
http://www.leftyblogs.com/iowa
The Iowa Democratic Party has postponed the Hall of Fame dinner scheduled for this Friday because of the flooding. I will let you know when they pick a new date for that event.
Use this as an open thread to tell us how you’ve been affected by the weather. Where you live, is it worse now or not as bad as in 1993?
4 Comments
Marshalltown is getting spared for the most part
We must have earned this break after getting hit hard by the ice storm in Feb 07.
noneed4thneed Wed 11 Jun 10:19 PM
We live on the Urbandale/Johnston border...
Right on the Urbandale side, and our backyard IS Beaver Creek. It’s about 25-30 feet up the yard right now, and really high and out of its banks (we’ve got a bench that hangs out over the creek that’s usually about 10 feet + above the water, and we can’t see it right now), but our backyard is pretty steep and it would have to rise another 7 feet or so to get to the house. It’s never gone higher than about 1 foot above current levels, although we weren’t here in ’93.
I think the fact that Beaver Creek is upstream from the Des Moines helps out, but with all the water in the river, we thought it might back up into all the tributaries. Basically, we’re just kind of hoping for no rain in Boone or anywhere north along the creek, since that’s the only way it will go any higher.
conner-tipping Thu 12 Jun 12:17 AM
supposedly we are in for a few dry days now
so Beaver Creek should drop considerably–I hope!
desmoinesdem Thu 12 Jun 8:29 AM
Thoughts and prayers from disaster-prone California...
Hope the waters go down soon, and that Chertoff gets off his duff and provides some help.
katerina Thu 12 Jun 2:54 PM