We're still tearing down houses. My office ahd two feet of water inside for four days.
No fun.
Posted on 06/10/2008 12:53:14 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
LAKE DELTON, Wis. - Storms overnight added to swollen rivers and caused new levee breaks that swamped Illinois farms and homes — part of a week of severe weather that's claimed 15 lives and is expected to continue in the nation's heartland, impacting food prices across the country.
Three levee breaks along the Embarras and Wabash rivers in Illinois were causing widespread flash flooding of nearby areas — including Lawrenceville, a town of 5,000, and several smaller communities.
About 200 homes are in the immediately affected area, with water up to the roofs of some of them.
Between 50 to 75 square miles of farmland was flooded along the Embarras River, said Lawrence County Sheriff Russell Adams.
In Wisconsin, engineers kept watch over rain-deluged dams Tuesday after a major collapse nearly emptied Lake Delton in a torrent that washed away houses and a highway.
And officials in Cedar Falls, Iowa, were telling residents and business owners in downtown to begin preparing for a possible evacuation as the Cedar River keeps rising.
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Bush's fault.
{/sarcasm off}
It’s Bush’s fault /sarc
this will somehow be a reason to raise gas prices.
Just like New Orleans.
I just knew I wouldn’t be the first with the obligatory “It’s Bush’s fault”!
Bush's Fault!
We're still tearing down houses. My office ahd two feet of water inside for four days.
No fun.
How do you think everything in the world is financed these day’s. Oil is the worlds currency. Every gallon purchased goes towards all global needs.
The whole area is a total loss. Just let it go. No reason to rebuild in an area that’s bound to flood again. Those people must be stupid to live there.
When the levee breaks
Momma, you got to go!
Lake Delton flood. The channel in the center did not exist on Sunday.
Photo/Joe Koshollek.
A house falls toward the water Monday after floodwaters ripped open the shoreline of Lake Delton and flowed into the Wisconsin River. Three homes were washed away and others damaged as the lake drained.
Oh no...Global Wetting!!!!
We need to dry up the world, Right Now!!
Is that your advice for the unfortunate people who got flooded this week? You know nothing about New Orleans beyond idiotic groupthink slogans you've picked up on line. Why don't you spend a little energy exercising compassion for people suffering from disasters, instead of politicising them?
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not, but here in Iowa, some of the rivers are expected to crest two feet higher than anyone has ever seen them. In 200 years. There are a lot of people whose houses are not in normal flood zones who are in trouble.
The flood stage (*not* the normal depth) of the Cedar River here in Cedar Rapids is 12 feet. It’s predicted to crest at at least 21.5 feet. Most of Cedar Rapids will be ok, the town is higher than the river, but Iowa City and a lot of our surrounding towns are going to get very very wet.
I thought N.O. was the only place with levees. I thought the rest of the country built dams.
“Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not...”
When in doubt, go with sarcastic, VERY SARCASTIC.
Here's the DM Red Star's live blog if you want to follow:
Please see my reply to #17. Actually, I know a bit about NOLA and not much about the currently stricken areas. Peace brother.
I know first hand many of the rivers in south and central Indiana have man made levees on both side that run for miles. I spent many an hour in my youth mowing then in the summer. Generally speaking, they work very well. Under extreme flooding, they will hold back water until they breach and then you get enormous flash floods. The breaches normally are "blow outs" cause by the hydraulic pressures of the flood water. Varmints holes can sometimes play a role as well. It is not unheard of for people to blow them with dynamite downstream in a desperate bid to save their own crops or homes.
Nope, lots of levees along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
Dams hold water back forming a lake, levees attempt to hold water within the course of a river.
The Cedar River in Cedar Falls is expected to crest *7* feet higher than the previous record. The old record was 96.1, and it's expected to hit 103 tonight (current level is over 101). Flood stage is 88 feet, so that's *15 feet* above flood stage.
In Waterloo the record is about 22 feet; the expected crest is 26 feet, and flood stage is 12 feet, putting the crest at 14 feet above flood stage. Lots and lots of water.
My apologies. Sometimes it’s hard to detect good irony on the internet.
As you can tell, it’s a sore subject for me.
Peace to you too.
I had no idea the Cedar was that deep up in Cedar Falls. I’m not native to Iowa. These floods are something else though.
I did not realize it was Lake Delton which was emptied by the levee breaks of the Wisconsin River. It’s a shame, as that man-made lake is a treasure for tourists to the Wisconsin Dells. It’s where the nightly water show takes place. This will have a major economic impact on Wisconsin.
I am going to have to take the blame on this one, it's not Bush's fault (this time).
We had my son's high school graduation party at a park on Saturday, and all week long I studied the weather praying that even if we got a little rain, just keep the storms away. Well my prayers were answered, unfortunately for others in my wonderful state, all the storms stayed to the south of us. Although Mid Wisconsin (my area) got a few quick downpours, we never got the violent weather that had been predicted.
So to the rest of the State , I AM SORRY!!!!
Kidding aside, my prayers go out to all of them (although my prayers did get me in trouble last time).
There it is: the source of the whole affair. I.O.O.F. (International Organization for Outdoor Flooding)
TO ANYONE: does anyone know the status of the Mississippi south of St. Louis, by Chester,IL lately? Flooding or ok?
I feel so bad for all those poor people. On the news I heard several of them say that they didn’t have flood insurance because they didn’t live in a flood plain. The man whose house we see over and over again on the news breaking in two and falling into the lake, said that his insurance agent told him he didn’t need it.
Gonna contribute to higher food prices.
Prayers for those in harms way.
The Cedar Falls flood gauge doesn’t reflect actual depth, but I’m not sure what it’s based on.
Here’s a slide show of the damage. It’s still incomprehensible to many of us.
http://www.jsonline.com/site/photographerphotos/SlideShow.aspx?catid=1263&N=0&photoid=23089
At Iowa City (Univ. of Iowa) the previous record for the Iowa River was 28 ft. in the “500 year flood” of 1993. It is moving toward 30 ft, and is expected to hit 33 ft. before it starts to fall. Good links put out by the U of Iowa, follow: http://uiflood.blogspot.com/
http://imuflood.wordpress.com/
http://us.f500.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=7327_2387802_130564_2034_2972_0_1146_10234_3950921436&Idx=2&YY=1507&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&inc=100&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&box=Inbox
The last link has several additional links. I think the one on Iowa River Conditions is actually a link to a general flood information site. NEMDF may be able to find information on the St. Louis flood conditions here, or on one of the other sublinks. I know there is a place where you could bring up info on various flood basins in several different state. Hope this helps.
I wondered about that too. Cedar Falls uses the courthouse steps as some sort of baseline elev. figure while Waterloo does not.
On the news last night they said the Cedar Falls number is simply elevation above sea level, minus 700. So 102 feet on the gauge is 802 feet above sea level, and the flood stage of 88 feet is 788 feet above sea level.
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