Flood 2008

[Skidmore]

For the interested some links to sites about Iowa's disastrous flood....49 counties are affected, which means half of our state.


http://www.kcrg.com/floodwatch/roadclosures/19742039.html

http://www.dailyiowan.com/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iowa+flood+2008


http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/19752804.html

[grannylib]

1. More pictures of NE Iowa (Decorah) at the following links:

This is my hometown and surrounding area; this is so sad...

http://www.decorahnews.com/floodphotos.html
http://www.decorahnews.com/floodphotos-readers.html

[Skidmore]

2. Want to see something really sad?

http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2008/06/10/Metro/Flood.Study.Never.Done-3380260.shtml?xmlsyn=1

Flood study never done
By: Christopher Patton - The Daily Iowan
Posted: 6/10/08


A proposed and rejected project to comprehensively examine areas near the Iowa River after the 1993 flood may have allowed more accurate predictions this year.

The project was known as the Comprehensive Flood Impact-Response Modeling System. It would have allowed people living along the Iowa River to track how the discharge rate from the Coralville Reservoir would affect the water level at any given location immediately up or downstream.

Charles Newsom, a UI associate professor of physics who closely follows issues relating to the Coralville Reservoir, said the system, had it been funded, would have made it clear exactly how much financial damage any given severity of flood would cause.

"The learned one big lesson from 1993 and that was to give people more advanced warning," he said. "But would have allowed the city and county to get more of the information they need in order to know which areas will be hardest hit." (more)

[grannylib]

5. Awww, man...that's more than sad, that's damn near criminal.

[kestrel91316]

8. I always thought I might like to retire to the area around Decorah, IA.

Never been there, but through the wonders of the internet, lol, I feel like I have. They have the hills that are missing from the rest of the state. They have a college or two. They have the Seed Savers Exchange form with its massive seed bank. The Amish are nearby, with the draft animals and nonelectric culture that we need to learn from and shift to........

I just didn't think the Switzerland of Iowa could flood.......

[Uncle Joe]

3. Thanks for the pictures, Skidmore.

My heart goes out to the people of Iowa.:(

[PeaceNikki]

4. Wisconsin is feeling the pain, too

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/wisconsin-flooding/728059809">Videos of flooding

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=760802">Rivers Rage Across Region

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25063019#25063019 ">Video of homes swept into lake that DRAINED completely in 2 hours

http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=6/9/2008&id=41084 ">Lake Delton in Wisconsin Dells is.... well, gone

[grannylib]

6. When I first saw the pix of Lake Delton, it was just heartbreaking.

I heard Madison is really hurting as well, along with many other areas...SE Minnesota, NE and central Iowa, spots all along the Mississippi, it's just beyond sad.

[Skidmore]

7. That lake draining is one of the most terrifying things I've seen.

I avoid being around large areas of water because I can't swim. It's funny because my husband is from a Caribbean island and I the whole time I visit I'm nervous. Too much water, too little land. It's unnerving to see that much water rushing forth.