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mitt

#45
June 11, 2008, 07:34:40 AM
Get ready for record everything prices.  Besides gas at 4+/gallon, a lot of crop production is flooded out in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.  Corn was at record price already, and now there will be a surge in futures.

I sandbagged yesterday, and it seems overwhelming.  Every town on a medium to large river in Iowa is flooding at record levels this week.  Des Moines, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City ...  Mandatory evacuations in those towns.

More rain in the forecast for today and tomorrow  :-\

mitt

TiNi

#46
June 11, 2008, 08:21:44 AM
that's terrible mitt...
it's nice to read that you pitched in with the sandbagging efforts...
do you have evacuation orders?

i hope the rain stops for you soon!
stay dry!

Bick

#47
June 11, 2008, 10:00:56 AM
Rode today, so of course it's raining (only lightly for now)
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#48
June 11, 2008, 11:54:02 PM
Quote from: mitt on June 11, 2008, 07:34:40 AM
Get ready for record everything prices.  Besides gas at 4+/gallon, a lot of crop production is flooded out in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.  Corn was at record price already, and now there will be a surge in futures.

I sandbagged yesterday, and it seems overwhelming.  Every town on a medium to large river in Iowa is flooding at record levels this week.  Des Moines, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City ...  Mandatory evacuations in those towns.

More rain in the forecast for today and tomorrow  :-\

mitt

D*mn..I saw that on CNN!  Are there plans for building an ark in your area?!   :-[ :-[
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Quote from: bobspapa on May 29, 2011, 08:09:57 AMThis just in..IZ is not that short..and I am not that tall.

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#49
June 12, 2008, 12:14:52 AM
Here in SA we have had some unseasonal winter rain, global warming is shit :o
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IZ

#50
June 12, 2008, 12:20:35 AM
Quote from: big bear on June 12, 2008, 12:14:52 AM
Here in SA we have had some unseasonal winter rain, global warming is shit :o

Sinister's s/o mentioned the term "Junuary" to describe this months weather here in the NW.  She ain't joking!!  This blows!! 
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Quote from: bobspapa on May 29, 2011, 08:09:57 AMThis just in..IZ is not that short..and I am not that tall.

mitt

#51
June 12, 2008, 04:27:17 AM
Quote from: IZ on June 11, 2008, 11:54:02 PM
D*mn..I saw that on CNN!  Are there plans for building an ark in your area?!   :-[ :-[


We should.  The record crest for the cedar river was 20ft (flood stage is 12), that happened 100 years ago.  In 1993, it got to 19.3ft, and did a lot of damage.  Today and tomorrow, it is supposed to hit 24.5 ft, definitely uncharted territory.

Luckily I live a couple miles from the river, so I am fine, but a lot of the town will get wet.  And, we are just the latest emergency after the crest went through all the upriver towns.

 

mitt

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#52
June 12, 2008, 07:59:06 AM
128 degrees yesterday, 108 degrees in our "air conditioned" housing.
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#53
June 12, 2008, 08:17:02 AM
Quote from: mitt on June 12, 2008, 04:27:17 AM
In 1993, it got to 19.3ft, and did a lot of damage. 

Funny you mention 1993.  One of the weather people here has said this pattern reminds him of 1993.  The midwest was hammered with severe weather all summer...and the PNW never really got a summer, except for a few short breaks.  :-\

I really hope he's wrong!

TiNi

#54
June 12, 2008, 09:16:00 AM
you couldn't ask for a finer day than today  8)

beautiful blue sky, sunshine and 75°

ZLTFUL

#55
June 12, 2008, 09:25:22 AM
Des Moines River they are looking for it to crest above the level of the 1993 floods and above the height of the levees. The DMPD is moving out of their headquarters into a high school a couple of miles away.
The flood resevoir upstream (Saylorville) has already gone over it's emergency spillway and has an outflow of 42,000 cubic feet per second and an inflow above 60,000 cubic feet per second. The Raccoon River that flows into the DSM River in downtown DSM is backing up because the water level in the DSM is higher than the water coming in. Beaver Creek that flows into the DSM River north of DSM is actually flowing the opposite way it normally does for the same reason.

And the city manager is still saying the levees will hold...Glad I live on a hill.

Our company spent most of the last 2 days pulling all of our product out of the downtown bars and restaurants to prevent it from being destroyed.
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TiNi

#56
June 12, 2008, 10:18:08 AM
crap  :-\
i hope your hill is tall enough :)

ZLTFUL

#57
June 12, 2008, 11:58:39 AM
It is. My parents neighborhood is being asked to evacuate though. They are the last house on their street that shouldn't have to evacuate after that, it's all downhill to about 3 feet above the banks of the river.
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mitt

#58
June 13, 2008, 07:42:06 AM
Well, it is worse than anyone imagined.

I took the duc out this am and snapped some photos and added them to google maps for reference.




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mitt

#59
June 13, 2008, 11:26:06 AM
Old flood record 720'.  Flood stage, 712'.  Cedar River today 733' - major damage.



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