I haven’t had the TV news on either and my local paper isn’t covering much of Iowa. I need to get the office configured with a TV but have to get a cable splitter to do so. Currently I’m home office bound since Jr. has the truck at work.
It’s supposed to cool down into the low 90s today. Send some rain this way. There’s not much in our forecast.
I remember the satellite pictures of the Mississippi back in 1993. I can’t imagine it being worse.
Ugh... sorry, you don’t know what it’s like here. It’s worse than we thought it was going to be. All the bridges are closed - the town is literally cut in half. We’re losing water. I’m not sure we’ll keep power. Internet? Who knows. Most companies are sending people home, at least those who live on the far side of the river and will need three or four hours to get home, possibly.
Downtown is under water. A railroad bridge collapsed and took the twenty cars full of rocks that were put on it to hold it in place, into the river. We’re flooding what they call the 500 year flood zone - we’ve never flooded the 100 year flood zone before. And it may be worse than that. We’ve got inches of rain in the last few hours making for flash floods.
Take a look at some of the pictures here - http://www.gazetteonline.com/ - and note that most of them were from yesterday. The river has gone up literally feet since then. Pictures of places with three inches of water are covered in five feet today.