More flood warning tonight

Mower, Freeborn, Waseca counties in Minnesota just fell under flood warnings again. Several counties in Iowa are again named in this round of warnings as well. These are NEW warnings, not from the other night. That south central part of the state is getting soaked big time this fall and now more rain.

just took a look at national weather mosaic radar,not good from texas to northern Mn.

Are you anywhere near that Cedar flowage? It sounds like they could take another hit tonight.

I just saw the crawline on the tv and it has a lot of Iowa included in either watches or warnings.

no Tom,I am not,but its only an hour or so from me to the north and east.
with what I saw on the radar if it holds together,we are all in for it this time.

I am about half way between Des Moines and Iowa city.

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=dmx&product=N0R&loop=yes

try this link if I did it right,in the lower left hand corner,click on national.

I have that site on the favorites for our area.

Looking at this critter on a national level is pretty impressive. Hope all fares well for you where you’re at. The weather just said they thought the storms were weakening a little as they get towards us so maybe we’ll dodge a wet bullet tonight.

I haven’t checked the dew point or the humidity here Tom and Sheldon but if we get another soaker here locally and it stalls that’s all we need. The water is up bigtime everywhere here from the Minnesota border south to here in CR.

I just looked at the radar and it looks like the storms down around Kansas city are growing and heading this way in about a day and a half. If it crosses here about the time of high water from the flood, lets hope it doesn’t stick around, that storm looks like a 2″ too 4″ storm and the storm sewers will be full at that time.

the storm broke apart before it got here,only enough rain to settle the dust.
am hoping everyone else was spared as well.
the lightening show was impressive though.

Not much rain came for this area. We certainly aren’t short on moisture.

Here ya go Tom, Sheldon and anyone whos interested. Type in,,, KCRG flood reports,,,This is one of the local TV stations that’s been covering the flood here. It gives almost daily reports of whats being done to prepare etc. Click on the links that say, Time check neighborhood, Czech village and any information on the Newbo, (NEW Bohemia) area across the river. Czech village has the biggest and most modern Czech-Slovack museum in the United States. Its a good perspective on whats going on here as I’m familiar with past damage in those areas and whats being done now. Its interesting if you have the time. This station will give daily reports on whats happening that day and previous days reports. It will more then likely have videos of water heights etc.

Here’s the latest on what’s going on along the river. I drove by the road that goes along the river and the levee that seperates you from seeing the river. In the last two days they have made earth dams in any area where water may come through. The bigger concrete laying companies have their concrete delivery telescoping conveyer trucks working there. What their doing is taking these collapseable no. 9 wire foldable containers with liners and placing them side by side and filling them with sand. They put one of these containers next the last one, open it up with the liner inside and then those concrete conveying trucks fill them with sand. These wire containers are about 3′ square and 4′ high. they have put two wide on the bottom and one on top of those two in the center, so about an 8′ tall wall now. In two days they have put hundreds, if not a few thousand of them on top of the existing levee and anywhere where the water may come through. Down some streets, on top of levees and around building close to the river is where their placing them.

Their building up some of the existing levees with dirt that I hope their going to leave there and plant grass on them. Dozers are all along the river pushing dirt. With what I seen two days ago and what I just seen makes me think they have got to be working 24-7. Its amazing what work can be achieved when its necessary. Lots of portable lighting systems in place I’m sure to build these barriers and probably to maintain them when the waters high to check for leaks.

I seen a pretty inspiring thing while helping a buddy sandbag his place with the sandbags we just went and got with my truck. A truck full of sandbags came around the corner and another truck loaded with people in the back was behind it. They were going door to door asking if the residents wanted to have their house sandbagged for free. The amount of people in those trucks they could have bagged the normal house in that area in maybe an hour. While we were filling bags a guy come over to us and asked if we needed a truckload of bags. He said people had volunteered to drive bags to anyone who needed them. Evidently that’s where those two trucks full of people and bags came from.

The sandbagging area we were at filling our bags had probably 3 too 4 hundred people filling and bagging sand for anyone who needed them, half of the 500 car parking lot was full of volunteers cars. We were there maybe 20 minutes and seen two sand trucks deliver new sand and the guy there said they had been doing that every since they started the bagging site about a week ago, all day and all night.

Its pretty impressive to see what they have done this time with all of the work that’s been done and the amount of equipment that’s down along the river still working, a major building project to say the least, dozens of tandem dump trucks, big concrete conveying equipment, cranes, dozers and endloaders by the dozens. The towns in a lot better shape then it was in 08. This will probably tell them where to continue building the levee project they were undecided on.

Iowaboy1 wrote:

the storm broke apart before it got here,only enough rain to settle the dust.
am hoping everyone else was spared as well.
the lightening show was impressive though.

IB you have dust somewhere? Haven’t seen dust here all year.

mxskeeter wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>iowaboy1 wrote:</div>
the storm broke apart before it got here,only enough rain to settle the dust.
am hoping everyone else was spared as well.
the lightening show was impressive though.

IB you have dust somewhere? Haven’t seen dust here all year.

it was dry for about an hour and half the other day,the dust formed on the high point of the crown of the gravel road that runs by my house.
should of went out an collected some to dump on the floor so my wife would have something different to scream about

I live 1.5 miles from the shell rock river or should I say where it is supposed to be. Friday morning it was 2 inches from my garden shed. We had sewer back up of about 5 inches got it pumped out and just now the ground water is just about done seeping in through the basement floor. The river is still above flood stage but at least it away from the town. The pile of debris from 1/3 of the town is at least 3 stories tall and a great bunch of appliances that will be recycled several home have had their basements cave in. And through all of this there has been no injuries and all will live to tell their stories

Clarksville flood 2016 my neighbors back yard

Attachments:

1. 

   IMG_20160923_100050.jpg
   

2. 

   IMG_20160923_080122.jpg
   

What city is this Czech village/museum in?

I just seen your question Puddle, Its in Cedar Rapids Iowa on the south West side of town. The Czechs have a big population here in town and their heritage goes way back to early settlements. Pennsylvania Dutch are one of the earliest as are the Germans and Irish and other European settlers. The Check-Slovack museum is a pretty nice building.

So far all those barriers that were put in place are holding the water back. The crest will come sometime around noon to 3:00 and then slowly go down from there. A long story but my cousin works for the city maintainence as a mechanic and this barrier cost 600 million to put in place, total cost of everything and no Fema money involved, Fema said they were done in the flood of “08”, basicially the city here didn’t spend Femas money right at that time, its a long story and a lot of people see that money and the way they spent it as wasted, and should have gone to what Fema gave it for, a new flood wall at that time and it wasn’t built so the taxpayers now have got to foot the bill for the 600 million…Politics

Thanks for the info. I am full blood Czech, only 2nd generation born here. I will have to make a trip down there. Didn’t mean to highjack the thread.

Ya Puddle, if you make it here go the Sykoras bakery just around the corner from the museum and try some of their fresh baked Kolaches, their all good and an old school recipe but the prune are the best I think, and also try some of their onion bread and Czech rye, very good. The building their in is close to 100 years old or older, one of the first on 16th Ave.