And It Isn’t Improving
NBC reports: Soggy Iowa sees another night of rising rivers
DES MOINES, Iowa – Cities and towns along the Cedar River in Iowa prepared for another night of waiting and watching to see if sandbags would hold back floodwaters slowly moving south and eventually into the Mighty Mississippi.
Hundreds of people in Cedar Rapids and small towns evacuated earlier Wednesday.
With more rain falling upriver Wednesday in parts of Iowa, crests at Missouri’s Mississippi River towns could be higher than currently forecast, said weather service hydrologist Jim Kramper.
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Added meteorologist Bill Karins of NBC’s WeatherPlus: “We are in the middle of a historic flood event in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Most major Iowa rivers are cresting at all-time record levels and this water will soon raise the Mississippi River to its second highest levels in recorded history north of St. Louis.
“The Mississippi river predictions for Burlington, Iowa, call for the crest to be a one in 100-200 year flood, second only to the Great Flood of 1993, which was considered a 500-year flood event,” he said.
“The story along the Mississippi River will be all the mid-sized and small towns without large levees,” he added. “On the consumer side, thousands upon thousands of acres of farmland will be flooded for weeks with incredible crop losses.”
…but global climate change isn’t real. 15 years after a 500-year flood event, you have a 100-year flood event. Drought in Australia and floods in the Midwest means that bread and gasoline will be at parity, i.e. a gallon of gas = a loaf of bread.
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This is dreadful.
And all those people being evacuated might have found some use for that $85 million-worth of household goods FEMA just gave away.
We could very easily be witnessing Katrina2. I am not encouraged that these folks are going to get the support and relief that they should from the incompetents in FEMA. It will be interesting to see how well the media hide the failure of Shrub’s administration this time.
Yeah, the weather systems are a mess. We had the coldest April ever recorded, and now we’ve had the warmest, driest June (3 Low daily temp’s of 14C in a row this week.) We just had our first rainfall tonight for the Month. Our reservoir water capacity is at 31% and stage 3 water restrictions have just been implemented. And petrol (gas to you) just hit AU$1.67/ltr with diesel even higher!
Of course FEMA is going to screw this up, as you point out, Andante, they were giving this stuff away while the floods were starting, and they didn’t use any of it during the SoCal fires. You wonder if they know what the stuff was for.
The media doesn’t want people to figure out how bad things really are, and how little has been done to correct the deficiencies found after Katrina, Fallenmonk. Food prices are going to soar, because the Corps of Engineers has had to shut the Mississippi for a 200 mile stretch to save the equipment that powers the locks from the flood waters. “water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink” is going to be the case when the water treatment plants get flooded.
That isn’t much of a winter lows in the high 50sF [Australia is having winter – the seasons are reversed].
SoCal and parts of the Southeast are going through the same thing because a lot of these storms would have been down here if the jet stream hadn’t shifted. The weather is truly screwed up and the agriculture is going to be screwed up as a result.
The Grumpy Forester was mentioning just the other day that they are still getting snow above 4000 feet in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, and that is definitely not normal in June.