Posted on 04/26/2023 8:09:30 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
BAGLEY, Wis. -- Road closures are are becoming more prevalent across parts of southwestern Wisconsin as floodwaters continue to rise on the Mississippi River.
Major flooding is occurring or in the forecast for the river along the Wisconsin border, with water levels expected to reach their highest in more than two decades.
In Cassville, portions of several streets, including Jack Oak Road, Iowa Street, Front Street and Wyota Street, are closed due to high waters, according to the village's Facebook page.
Cassville has also been bypassing wastewater into the Mississippi River since Sunday.
Volunteers in the village spent Monday filling sandbags to protect properties at risk of flooding.
Up the river in Bagley, roads west of the railroad tracks will be closed starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Village officials warned anyone caught driving in the area after that deadline could face "enforcement action."
Numerous road closures are also in effect in Prairie du Chien, including portions of North Main Street, Washington Street, 1st Street, Lockwood Street, Prairie Street and Wells Street. All of St. Feriole Island is also closed to the public.
Officials in each community are asking residents who are seeing flooding or are expected to get water in their basements to place sand bags over their floor drains to keep floodwaters out of sanitary sewers.
The river is expected to crest between Tuesday and Thursday north of La Crosse and between Wednesday and Saturday for areas between La Crosse and Guttenberg, Iowa, according to the National Weather Service.
We're about an hour inland from the Mississippi. If we start flooding, all bets are off! ;)
National Weather Service
Mississippi River Spring Flood - 2023
https://www.weather.gov/arx/MississippiRiver_SpringFlood_2023
It’s called “Spring”. The Mississippi overflows it’s banks by tens of miles in places. It’s why it’s also some of the best farmland in the world.
Stoopid climageddon!
Is Grand Forks, ND flooding again?
That seems to happen about once a decade.
I’m waiting on the dry lake in California to fill up and flood everything that’s been built in the last 100 years. Build on a flood plain, drown in a lake.
The annual Spring flooding of the mighty Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
I saw a YouTube video recently about some hillside subdivision in Utah where the houses were sliding down the hill because all the snow/rain that they have had in the last six months
I remember that flood. Ironically, parts of Grand Forks were on FIRE at the same time!
Now, THAT’S one for the books! ;)
WHICH DRY LAKE???
El Mirage???
Tulare Lake
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