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Flooding in Hawarden, Iowa (Tim Hynds / Sioux City Journal via AP) The Des Moines River at Humboldt, a small city about 105 miles north of Des Moines, was forecast to crest Wednesday at 17 feet ...
The Sioux County sheriff's Facebook page said evacuations also were underway in Hawarden on the Big Sioux River, which likewise experienced record flooding. The city of Akron, just downstream, was ...
Matthew Dux,, lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which handles forecasting for northwest Iowa, said the flooding was on par with historic Missouri ...
In Iowa, power was cut off at wastewater treatment plants in Hawarden and Spencer, which together have 14,000 residents. Aiden Engelkes said he and his girlfriend grabbed clothes, cats and bottled water and left their flooded first-floor apartment in Spencer for a friend's dry space on the fourth floor.
Rivers continued to reach record levels as Iowa entered a fourth day of historic flooding that killed at least one person whose truck was swept away by strong water near Spencer over the weekend.
Several midwest states remain underwater on Monday as 50 million people continue to face extreme heat warnings across the US. Heavy rainfall triggered deadly flooding in South Dakota, Iowa and ...
The Big Sioux River Flood Information System was used to model flooding during the March 2019 bomb cyclone event. [16] The river overflowed its banks between September 12–15, 2019, flooding three blocks of Dell Rapids, South Dakota, and damaging up to a dozen homes. [17] Interstate 90 was shut down between Mitchell and Sioux Falls. [15]
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.