Flooding in central Iowa

[MikeBjerum]

Check out these videos from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa (30 miles north of Des Moines).

http://www.cyclones.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?catid=0&id=718487

[Timothy]

How's the Big Sioux and the Missouri holding up near TT?

[MikeBjerum]

Will have to wait for him to chime in, but as of Sunday evening when the kids went home everything was fine.

Everything is holding good in Sioux City as well.

2 1/2 weeks ago when we rode home from Kansas, the flooding around Omaha was letting up.  I think it stayed pretty much on ag land, but we did ride one road where it was half way across one lane.

From what I have seen this year it is central and eastern Iowa that is getting hit.

[Timothy]

As I understand the geography, that which is west drains into the Ogallala Aquifer and that which is east drains into the "Big Muddy"....

TT should be above the waterline for the time being....

Stay dry!

[tt11758]

I am still above water.  Towns within 20 minutes east and northwest of here aren't fairing quite as well, however.  And the local country club is discussing substituting water polo for golf for this year's club tournament.

This is one year I've been DAMN glad the house is built on a concrete slab, cuz we're pretty much the only people in town who haven't had a sump pump running 24/7 for the last few weeks.

As of 7:00 this morning our little town was officially almost 11-1/2 inches above normal for the year on precip.  18+ in a normal year to this point, but about 29 so far this year. 

A local farmer made the comment yesterday that he's considering switching from raising corn and soybeans to rice and cranberries.

We're all hoping we don't get another winter like last winter.

Someone else I know suggested that Iowa is on the verge of becoming Minnesota's 10,001stt lake.

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[MikeBjerum]

Someone else I know suggested that Iowa is on the verge of becoming Minnesota's 10,001stt lake.

Don't want you!

Got enough lakes infested with carp and bullheads Iowa Walleyes already 

[MikeBjerum]

This came from a neighbor girl who is attending ISU ... at the urging of our sweet little daughter.

When our daughter forwarded it to us all she could say was "Holy Crap!"

I've been watching national msm last night and this morning, and apparently central Iowa doesn't matter    I won't go into one of my rants concerning race and faith    yet   

[tt11758]

We went to Spencer this afternoon (35 miles from here), and this is what a former pasture west of town looked like.  Sorry about the picture quality, it was snapped out the window of my truck travelling down the road at 55 mph.  On second look, my CrackBerry has a pretty decent camera!!