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Just_ziptab
Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 09:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

10 inches of rain in the last week or so...then last night, 5 more inches! Half the roads in the state are shut down at stream crossings. Emergency evacuations along the rivers. Gonna be more rain attempts by mother nature all week.........for the third week in a row. Radio has been screaming warnings for days on end. South edge of town, railroad track is mere inches from being under water It's a mess! I'm sitting high and dry and nary a drop in the sump pit.......good planning/engineering in the basement : D This is supposed to be a bean field. eek



View of the "lake" from the back patio area



From the back deck

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Just_ziptab
Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 09:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Typical small meandering creeks thru meadows are all like this one.


Local golf course

Old gun club range

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Glitch
Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 09:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

So that's where all our rain is!
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Bads1
Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 09:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Zip,

We are starting to have the same issues. Our river is up way over the banks. People are pulling over to get out of there cars just to see. I'm on high ground as well.
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Just_ziptab
Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 10:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

They be say'n that this rain/flood could meet the witness marks carved on bridge pilings in 1913
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Bads1
Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 10:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'll take some pics tomorrow. Its insane what we are seeing. We just don't see this around here to much. We've seen the river flood but damn I could Jet Ski in area's.
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Dbird29
Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 10:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Hard work pays off?

Looks like it!
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No_rice
Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 11:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

i rode down a main rode to work the other morning and had water up over the muffler on the 9.

we just got done sand bagging the bar the gf works at again. last week the bar had 18" of water in it...

scroll down through the videos in the link and find the ames flooding ones. it was a mess and its coming back up again.

http://www.whotv.com/
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Nevrenuf
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 05:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

doesn't look to good out there right now does it. hope you guys get through it alright.
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Glitch
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 06:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

We have the opposite problem here.






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Dnchevyman
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 07:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

wow, yea im in western iowa, river just crested the banks at 8pm sunday... good riding for the dirtbike though!
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Dhalen32
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 08:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

JZT:
It has been a lovely spring hasn't it? We had an F2 tornado early Sunday morning here in Omaha. Debris all over our neighborhood. We're lucky though; about 1/4 mile away a neighborhood was trashed. Nobody killed though. Just property damage.
Dave
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Ratbuell
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 08:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Wow, and I thought we had a tough go of it here in the mid-Atlantic (DC area) with a string of 99 degree days (that's a *pre* heat index temp of 99).

Drove through downtown Frederick last night, we were going to get a Rita's Italian Ice in the mother-in-law's Nash convertible, but all of downtown was without power. Whoops. Guess a few too many folks turned on their a/c at once...
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Blublak
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 09:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah, after the drenching we got the other day (along with some funnel cloud touchdowns) this weather has been pretty crazy..

Saturday on the way home from Frederick Buell, the ambient said 100* (at highway speeds) and the coolant read 204* .. Man that was one hot frame by the time I got the 1125 home..

So, in less then 7 days the DC area has had torrential rains, tornadoes, flooding, power outages, minor hysteria and a heat wave.. I hope it sorts soon so we can all just go riding and enjoy ourselves a bit..
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M2statz
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 11:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

We are in Southcenteral Wisconsin just about 40 miles north of Madison, over the weekend our rain gauge said we got 10.5in of rain since Saturday a.m. The small river that normally runs thru the back yard is now the back yard. It rose an inch an hour from Sunday at 0600 to this morning. I am running out of inches. Not expected to crest until Thursday but forecast call for mare rain by then. So looks like I will be sand bagging by Wed!! Will try to post some pictures. Could always be worse, homes 60 miles to the west of us were wiped out by mud slides and flash floods. Thankfully there have been very little injuries.
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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 12:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

As long as it's dry and calm for Homecoming
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M2statz
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 03:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Lake Delton levy washed out around noon. Draining entire lake. Water heading our way. Evacuating parts of town along the Wisconsin River. So much for the lake front property on Lake Delton. Several houses have been washed away.
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Bads1
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 04:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Our Root River hasn't even crested yet. My best buddy lives just across the street from it. He went to work this morning and it was in the street. Since he has left,they have evacuated all homeowners on the River. I've been trying to reach him to see what I can do. The police will not let me in the area unless I show and ID that I live in the homes evacuated. Nothing he can do about the house but he does have a very mint 73 Triumph TR6. And a 74 Kawasaki H1 in the garage that I know is starting to take on water. This sucks,when you feel like your hands are tied.
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Mayerhd
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 04:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25020185/?GT1=43001

Click the link with the house being washed down river. This is in Lake Delton, WI. Reports vary but Lake Delton has lost about 80% of its volume, and all of that water is now heading down the Wisconsin River. Crazy.
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Bads1
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 04:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Chack out this slide show this is all within city blocks of me.

http://journaltimesonline.com/shared-content/story _tools/slideshow/?id=85
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Just_ziptab
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 07:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The little dam in Fort Dodge is completely under water, can't even tell it's there. A lone abandoned bridge piling in the middle of the river with a pole and and American flag is just about covered up too.....normally 10 to 20 feet or so out of the water. The river has gone up about a foot since this morning.......could see the dam at that time. Makes winter blizzards kind of a meek happening.
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Bads1
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 09:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

4 blocks from my house.




















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Cataract2
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 09:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Wow.
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Iamike
Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 01:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Zip/Norice-

Hey guys, I'm out in California right now and got a call from work about how bad it is at home. I'll try to get some rain dropped off here since they need it so bad.

They said that a realy old bridge in Charles City has failed and my town is flooding too. I'm high enough not to have to worry but there are a lot of people that are in trouble.

Iowa MIke
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Gearhead
Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 07:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

No Rice,
I'd planned on stopping in and saying, "Hello" on Wednesday since I was heading to Ames for the Hot Rod Power Tour stop there.

With the flooding, I'm sure there will be a plan "B" but I haven't checked it out yet.

Too bad, too, the "Power Tour" is a pretty big deal that rarely comes through Iowa.
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No_rice
Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Hey guys, I'm out in California right now

well dont you suck!!! did ya get to take the bike? or is it all work and no play?

and yes everything seems to be at the verge of giving out around here. alot of stuff is trying to contain way to much water.

I'd planned on stopping in and saying, "Hello" on Wednesday since I was heading to Ames for the Hot Rod Power Tour stop there.

i am hoping to swing by there also. i am supposed to be here at work from 9-5:30 so definatly swing by on your way.

i dont know for sure where they are having it, but if the spot i'm thinking is right i'm not to worried about the water disrupting that.
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M2statz
Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 12:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

We saw parts of the house go by Portage while going to get more sand bags for our house. Some of the video shows the awesome destructive power of water. Pray for sunny weather heck I will settle for just no rain. http://www.nbc15.com/news/headlines/19663084.html#

Michael
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Newfie_buell
Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 07:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

And I thought 10 feet of snow was bad this past winter
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Bads1
Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 09:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Don't worry Newfie it'll be ok by the time you get here. Even then.... it won't effect Homecoming.
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Iamike
Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Not only am I missing the badweather in Iowa but I am enjoying great weather out here. Yes, it is just a pleasure trip and no, I didn't get to bring the bike this time.

But, I did get to eat in Buellton tonight. Pretty darn good place to eat too.
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