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.
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