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.
Davenport has its Bix fest right now, and the storms yesterday wrecked quite a bit of it. Minor flooding, nothing major predicted. But the ball park will be an island again.