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Sirens blared at 2 a.m. in Rock Valley, Iowa, population 4,200, where people in hundreds of homes were told to get out as the Rock River could no longer take rain that has slammed the region.
Graphics from this weekend's flooding show the extent of flooding in northwest Iowa. In Saturday's flooding, the Rock River in northwest Iowa exceeded its typical volume by more than 100 times.
The flood have hit parts of Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota. The water was so powerful that it pulled down a train bridge connecting North Sioux City, South Dakota, with Sioux City, Iowa.
The Floyd River during record high flood stage water levels, flooding a farm field near Le Mars, Iowa. Date: 21 September 2018, 17:11: Source: Floyd River - Flooding in Le Mars, Iowa: Author: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Gov. Kim Reynolds said the Iowa Emergency Operations Center had opened to deal with the flooding, which also was reported in Sioux City, Sioux Center, Hull, Sanborn, Spirit Lake and Arnolds Park ...
Flooding was a problem in southeastern South Dakota and northwestern Iowa. Several highways were closed, including a key stretch of Interstate 29 south of Sioux Falls that later reopened. Sioux Falls, the state's largest city, had more than 7 inches (17.7 centimeters) of rain in three days.
Severe flooding in Iowa led to evacuations of many homes. In eastern Iowa along the Iowa River and Cedar River, flooding was expected to exceed that of the Flood of 1993. [16] Flooding also forced the closure of a number of roads throughout the state, reaching the point where travel was not advised in some parts of the state.
8 a.m.: Flood watch issues for 30 Iowa counties after another round of storms. Over 30 central counties in Iowa are under flood watch. Affected areas span from Cass County to Marion, up to Palo ...