NEW UPDATE DOWN BELOW!!
The big building above is an University of Iowa dorm called Mayflower. Here is what the dorm normally looks like.
If you have ever been to Iowa City, Dubuque Street is the main road into the city and it is an exit from I-80 interstate. Dubuque Street is completely under water and the major Mayflower dorm looks screwed.
They expect the Iowa river to raise up 5 more feet by Saturday and I am getting text messages on Thursday night of people being rescued from houses in Coralville, Iowa, which is basically a suburb of Iowa City.
A Coralville levee just broke and flood waters are now filling the main business district, labeled the Coralville strip. It should be completely under water by mid day on Friday.
Here is a video segment from the Daily Iowan
The pictures were from the Iowa City Press Citizen and their website headline reads "Evacuate!"
I located a University Iowa webcam and as the waters continue to rise rapidly over the next 48 hours, you should be able to watch it at this link.
U of I has set up a flood watch blog.
Cedar Rapids, a town of 125K that is about 30 minutes North of Iowa City is completely Fd and their downtown is under water. The flood waters are predicted to crest at 32 feet in CR which is 12 feet over the 1993 all time record and a staggering 20 feet over what is considered a flood. The pictures are breathtaking.
These pictures below are from Thursday evening and if you compare the building which I believe is the court house, you can see how much the water is still rising.
More shocking pictures of the Cedar Rapids flood can be found at this link.
These waters will funnel into the Mississippi and more record disaster is upcoming down river. I am still furious that we do not have 100-200K troops OCCUPYING Iowa right now helping out with prevention and protection of these communities.
Homeland Security? what a complete joke and budget albatross. There only use is having press conferences with the FBI to tell us how they just saved us from some big scary attack so they can get some cheap splashy headlines, even though the majority of cases never hold up in a court of law. Maybe they can stop trying to set up troubled muslim pizza delivery drivers and actually save/secure the Fn homeland.
Daily Iowan video segment
Cedar Rapids Gazette coverage of CR flood
Live Webcam of U of I campus along the rising Iowa River
Iowa City Press Citizen
U of Iowa flood Blog for updates
Hawkeye Blues Part 1
UPDATE: Coralville is way FD! Here is a an amazing video link of a guy driving down the strip as the waters flood the road.
Latest News Summary of the Flood
More pictures at the Flickr Account.
Hawkeye Blues Part 1
UPDATE 2:
Army Corps of Engineers staff informed Iowa City staff Friday morning, June 13, that the current water level of the Coralville Reservoir is 715.9 feet, 3.9 feet over the spillway. The level in the Reservoir is expected to peak at 717.7 at midnight on June 16th. Inflows to the Reservoir are peaking today, Friday, June 13, with an estimated 50,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) inflow.
Possible maximum flow expected during this flood event in the Iowa City area is 44,000 cfs, expected late Monday, June 16.
This correlates to an additional 4-1/2 to 5 feet of additional water. Additional rain may add to and delay the peak. The maximum flow experience in 1993 was 28,200 cfs. The flood of 2008 is now anticipated to be near or exceed a 500-year flood event.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Hawkeye Blues Part 2
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