Posted on 07/24/2010 10:43:02 AM PDT by worst-case scenario
MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP) - The National Weather Service says the Lake Delhi dam in eastern Iowa has failed and that several small communities downstream could be severely flooded.
Meteorologist Chris Legro says water has been detected flowing beneath the dam and that a complete failure was possible, sending a dramatic increase in water down the Maquoketa River.
Legro says about half of Hopkinton, a city of about 700, could be flooded. He says flooding also was likely later in the day in Monticello, a city of about 3,600 people.
People who live in the Freddy's Beach resort area around the lake are removing their belongings from flooded homes and evacuating.
Lake Delhi was created in the 1920s by damming the Maquoketa River. The area about 180 miles northeast of Des Moines is a weekend retreat with about 900 residents.
More details: http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Lake-Delhi-Dam-Has-Been-Compromised-99164894.html
Hope they are all ok.
But on another note, when disasters happened like this under Bush, the Left press would blame Bush and his policies for the failure, call for an investigation into Bush’s spending for dams, and cry out for the head of the Federal agency who’s job it is to oversee dams
Prayers up.
Oh, we have plenty of money to educate and medicate illegals, and to bribe the gimme-class to vote for Demoncraps - but we don’t have money to fix our aging, crumbling vital infrastructure.
Thank God they have warning time enough to get people out.
They’ll still blame Bush. Everything that happens while Obama is in office will be blamed on the damage done to the government while Bush was in charge. It’ll either be Bush holdovers that Obama is not responsible to replace or Bush policies that Obama is not responsibe or has had enough time to change. Of course, no one ever asks why Bush, who was preceded by Clinton, was able to make changes while he was in charge.
Iowa went for obama in 2008, so the feds might actually give them some help.
/dead serious
If the NWS says it, why isn't it in ALL CAPS?
I’d be REAL curious to see what the present crew has done to guarantee the safety of these older dams. Who would handle that - Department of the Interior?
I have to admit that the National Weather Service is one arm of the Federal government that it would be foolish to abolish. We need these sorts of warnings - they save lives. Especially since weather has gotten extreme in some regions - floods, tornadoes, etc. Hope to heavens we get out of hurricane season without too many disasters.
But somehow it will be blamed on "the previous administration."
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Yes, “years of neglect”, etc etc.
Just dam!
The “last 8 years” of neglect, must emphasize who is truly to blame: BUSH !!
This was just yesterday. Most of the week was like this over there. That fat red stripe at the end of the sequence was probably the last straw. That thing sucked up all the (considerable) energy south of I-80/88 and raised hell until 7:00 this morning.
Holy Mackerel! Cedar Rapids and Rockford have been POUNDED! All those cities like Davenport, Keokuk, Mediapolis, Quincy - how are they doing?
Is this going to end up the Nashville flooding?
I dunno, I live just west of Chicago. Right under the east end of that long storm. They're probably all-right; the Mississippi can carry a lot of water downstream. This is pretty bizarre weather, but nothing like '93.
The North Fork of the Maquoketa did its seemingly "bi-annual" thing to Dyersville (IA) yesterday, Manchester was having problems, and there was general misery all along the line of the storms (a clearly delineated band across the state pretty N of and following US 20). My commute to work yesterday was made pointless by water over the road, and some of the smaller creeks were already roaring before last night's rain. I went out to look at the Mississippi this morning and it is definitely up and with lots o' crap in it... assorted branches, "Nessie"-looking tree trunks, an upturned picnic table, a year's worth of lost/discarded coolers...
There are basements in the area having considerable standing water this morning, ones that have never before been more than just damp. In some cases where the homes are on a slope, you'd as soon have expected to find water standing on the side of a tipi.
I was surprised to learn that the majority of the dams in the US are privately owned. The Lake Delhi Dam is owned by the Lake Delhi Recreational Association.
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