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Record flooding in northwest Iowa prompts evacuations, isolates one city. Historic flooding struck parts of Iowa over the weekend, damaging nearly 2,000 properties and prompting evacuations and ...
More: How bad was the northwest Iowa flooding? 4 graphics illustrate record-setting river levels. Montgomery works for an Ida Grove construction company as a carpenter. He was on a job site in ...
Iowa Flood of 2008. The Iowa flood of 2008 was a hydrological event involving most of the rivers in eastern Iowa which began June 8 and continued until July 1. Flooding continued on the Upper Mississippi River in the southeastern area of the state for many more days. The phrase "Iowa's Katrina " was often heard.
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.
In 1851, 74.5 in (191.5 cm) of rain fell in Iowa, a record that holds to this day. The worst flooding occurred May to June in the Des Moines River Basin. [8] [9] [10] Major flooding in 1851 occurred in Bentonsport, Croton, Bonaparte, Des Moines, Eddyville, Farmington, Iowaville, Keosauqua, Muscatine, Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Red Rock, and Rochester.
Flooding on the Iowa side had been a source of considerable concern after a June 25 levee breach upstream of the reactor near Missouri Valley, Iowa, prompted evacuations of 18 homes, temporary closing of the Blair Bridge (while flood walls were built to protect the Iowa approach) and closing of DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge on the DeSoto Bend ...
The flooding brought additional misery to parts of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota during a vast and stubborn heat wave. In some communities hit by flooding, the temperature Monday afternoon approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius).
Floodwaters forced people out of their homes in parts of Iowa, the result of weeks of rain, while much of the United States longed for relief Saturday from yet another round of extraordinary heat.
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