Iowa City and Ceder Rapids 500 year flood - The white man's Katrina

[Duddy]

Calm down, it's just jokes


Seriously though, the flood is catastrophic and it's still getting worse! Downtown Cedar Rapids looks just like New Orleans after Katrina, except that the water is moving very fast and rising still.

 

[Duddy]

http://www.kcrg.com/

 

[Drift3r]

That's what they get for building their homes there. /sarcasm off

 

[CADsortaGUY]

DesMoines is going under too. I have a bunch of pics but they are mainly for "before" pictures. I expect a few of the levees to fail in the next couple days as some are already leaking. Could be as bad as '93 if the wrong levees fail. Probably won't loose water this time even if shit goes bad though, which is a huge plus.

 

[miketheidiot]

amazing that this is just from rain.

Is there a precedent for flooding like this outside of the spring thaw?

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
amazing that this is just from rain.

Is there a precedent for flooding like this outside of the spring thaw?

http://ldolphin.org/flood.shtml

 

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
amazing that this is just from rain.

Is there a precedent for flooding like this outside of the spring thaw?

http://ldolphin.org/flood.shtml

LOL


Seriously though, they are syaing a large levee has broken near Ceder Rapids I think.

They were saying before that happened, that if that levee broke, it would be the worst case scenario. That's horrible.

I think those people on KCRG TV News might get trapped.

 

[miketheidiot]

If it keeps on raining...

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
If it keeps on raining...

I was just thinkin that...

 

[sportage]

Yeah, 1993 was said to be the 100 year flood.
Now its 15 years later, and we have another 100 year flood.
Maybe old Al Gore was on to something...Ya think?

Gurgle gurgle gurgle ... "Al was right!!! Gurgle gurgle gurgle (famous last words).

 

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: sportage
Yeah, 1993 was said to be the 100 year flood.
Now its 15 years later, and we have another 100 year flood.
Maybe old Al Gore was on to something...Ya think?

Gurgle gurgle gurgle ... "Al was right!!! Gurgle gurgle gurgle (famous last words).

This is a 500 year flood. It has never happened before as far as records show.

 

[ChaosDivine]

Originally posted by: Drift3r
That's what they get for building their homes there. /sarcasm off

Come on now, that's one of the few places to get a decent computer/electrical engineering job in the midwest (Rockwell Collins, Skyworks, etc.)

 

[Pabster]

It's a mess, for sure. Nothing funny if you're stuck in the middle of it.

 

[sportage]

pict

This photo reminds me of some disaster movie or
one of those WHAT IF programs. The one where the ice caps
melt and cities disappear.

 

[sportage]

This is a 500 year flood. It has never happened before as far as records show.

Ah... sorry to correct, but 1993 was not 500 years ago.

This is exactly what Des Moines looked like 1993, and this time they
say its worse. Des Moines 1993 downtown was dark and vacant.
We walked downtown one night in total darkness.
Seeing the whole downtown dark and vacant was eerie as hell.
Like the end of the world scenario.
Most streets had 3 feet of water and we had to turn back.
We walked over one of the main bridges into downtown, and at the
Bottom of the bridge was a lake where city streets once were.
The only thing missing were flesh eating mutants.
Three feet of water on most the streets. No electric.
No water to the city from June 6 to July 14.
Thats a long time going without a bath, toilet, or tap drinking water.

Military handed out water uptown in parking lots for drinking and cooking.

This time, so far the, the water plant levee, they rebuilt higher, is holding.
But many downtown areas have been flooded out, again.
And this weekend is going to be the test of test as the river hit its max.
I noticed just three feet until levee top Friday afternoon.
Once it tops the levee, masses of buildings and homes will be under
Some 8 feet of water, or worse.

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
If it keeps on raining...

Thank you ... good stuff.......

JOHN HENRY BONHAM

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
amazing that this is just from rain.

Is there a precedent for flooding like this outside of the spring thaw?

the 1993 flood here was in July.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Pabster
It's a mess, for sure. Nothing funny if you're stuck in the middle of it.

True true.

You guys starting to get dried out up there? My basement is finally drying. I'm going to have to put in new drain tile around the house as the people before who put it in didn't put it down far enough. F'n morons. But as "bad" as my damage was, there are tons of people with worse damage and probably total losses before this is over. I probably wont see an insurance adjuster for a month

 

[Xavier434]

It really is getting bad. I feel terrible for these people.

 

[K1052]

The Army Corps of Engineers is closing a bunch of the locks along the Mississippi in Illinois and Missouri, effectively closing the river to traffic for at least two weeks.

That's gonna fsck up the refineries that get their crude by barge.

 

[Farley2k]

It is kind of amazing. Right now Interstate 80 is closed outside Iowa City which means one of the main trucking arteries for the US has a several hour detour. In CR we are supposed to use water for drinking only since the pumping capacity is only at 25% normal. So today I stink and my mouth tastes like crap. We are lucky though since our house is up very high. Most of downtown is underwater. The library, the museum, city hall, the federal courthouse, the police station etc. There is only 1 bridge over the river which isn't closed in CR so traffic is a nightmare.

The bright side is that there has been no lose of life I have heard about in eastern Iowa. People have lost homes, business are ruined but no one has died.

 

[OutHouse]

been there done that. 1997 i was in Grand Forks ND when the Red River busted the dykes and flooded the whole town. 60K people had to get the hell out fast. then downtown caught fire but the problem was that there was 7 feet of water downtown the only way to fight it before the whole city burned while flooded was to use choppers with drop buckets. it was strange seeing dozens of choppers flying over to drop water on flooded buildings that are on fire.

http://www.draves.com/gf/gfindex.htm pics of fire.

 

[StageLeft]

If FEMA sorts this out stat, they'll be blamed for helping whitey before blacks, even though maybe they've learned something and the situation is bad.

Oh come on, you knew somebody had to predict that

 

[Rio Rebel]

This whole race joke is pretty ignorant. New Orleans is/was largely black (and mixed races), but Katrina affected far more than just New Orleans.

Sorry I may not see the humor in it as quickly as some others - my family went through Katrina on the Mississippi Coast, and I personally know people who did not live through it. Unfortunately, the storm seems to be associated only with New Orleans, when it actually affected far more.

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: sportage
Yeah, 1993 was said to be the 100 year flood.
Now its 15 years later, and we have another 100 year flood.
Maybe old Al Gore was on to something...Ya think?

Gurgle gurgle gurgle ... "Al was right!!! Gurgle gurgle gurgle (famous last words).

Do not forget you hold the pompous position here, to presume cause and effect (this flood and MMGW) to which you have no proof.

Our cities are younger than most of the earth's cycles, or solar cycles for that matter. Take for example the Colorado River which had its wettest century during the last century. From here on out the normal river is one with less water flow.

Millions of people now depend on last century's historic amount of water, they will not get enough - and YOU would praise reverend Gore for hearing god's voice and telling the faithful that he knew disasters would happen and that mankind must repent or be damned?


As for the current flooding - maybe our construction alongside the river, including new levees are the reason for unusual water flow. Maybe all this water would have spread out and flooded fields upstream instead of being channeling down the river causing undue stress and fracturing the weakest parts of the levee system.

Do not underestimate our tampering with the natural flow of water, and our lack of understanding of nature, or is your reverend too busy selling repentance?