Wow, so we're definitely drenched here. Iowa is really flooded out... probably the worst flood since the 70's. Up on our farm, this is the 4th flood this season so far already - whereas it's only normal to get about 1 flood every other YEAR.
The Mississippi River is normally about 5 miles away from my front door - now it's just 50 feet away (view from our balcony):
From the barn:
More rain on the way:
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/52001?showanimation=yes&mapregion=us_dsm_closeradar_plus_usen
The water is still going up. They closed I-80 (if you've traveled the US, you've been on it) an hour and a half south of here and routed all traffic through OUR city. I mean, look: http://www.thonline.com/
We flooded earlier as well... and, actually, because of fast river currents, a barge load actually crashed into the bridge from Iowa to Illinois up here:
http://www.thonline.com/multimedia/index.cfm?id=1390&srow=1
There's some crazy stuff here. Crazy weather. Tornadoes, too...
A couple more humorous things I'm getting from this:
This first snippet from a local news source:
The weather radio alarm goes off a lot - the computerized voice always says the recorded messages... it says: "Remember: turn around, don't drown."
There's something really funny about it:
Anyway, exciting weather here, hopefully it doesn't get too bad though. I'm glad we still have power. Several surges though...
-Matt
The Mississippi River is normally about 5 miles away from my front door - now it's just 50 feet away (view from our balcony):
From the barn:
More rain on the way:
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/52001?showanimation=yes&mapregion=us_dsm_closeradar_plus_usen
The water is still going up. They closed I-80 (if you've traveled the US, you've been on it) an hour and a half south of here and routed all traffic through OUR city. I mean, look: http://www.thonline.com/
We flooded earlier as well... and, actually, because of fast river currents, a barge load actually crashed into the bridge from Iowa to Illinois up here:
http://www.thonline.com/multimedia/index.cfm?id=1390&srow=1
There's some crazy stuff here. Crazy weather. Tornadoes, too...
A couple more humorous things I'm getting from this:
This first snippet from a local news source:
The weather radio alarm goes off a lot - the computerized voice always says the recorded messages... it says: "Remember: turn around, don't drown."
There's something really funny about it:
Anyway, exciting weather here, hopefully it doesn't get too bad though. I'm glad we still have power. Several surges though...
-Matt
