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.
Amazing. Are you guys pretty secure at home (even if you lose power and stuff). I mean any danger of flooding?
It’s ~still~ raining?
Stay safe, and as dry as possible.
Jeepers Jenb... Hope you both stay dry. Sounds like a real mess.
We’ve got three Iowans in our section at work. They have been watching the NOAA website, it gives projected water levels. It’s showing you got about another 3 feet to go before the crest on the Cedar. 6pm showed 29.5 feet. Two of them are heading up to Iowa tomorrow.