On Jun 26, 11:43=A0am, z <gzuck...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 11:06=A0am, Kurt Nicklas <nickl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > As I said before, having grown up in Iowa and lived there for more
> > than
> > 30 years I can tell you that it not a trifle out of the ordinary.
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> OK then.
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> "The Cedar River was expected to crest Friday night at nearly 32
> feet,
> an astoni****ng 12 feet higher than the old record, set in
1929."http://ww=
w.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,366315,00.html
>
> "June 14: After cresting nearly 12 feet higher than the previous
> record, Iowa's Cedar River is leaving a wake of misery along it's
> overflowing shores."http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25020185/
>
> "IOWA CITY, Iowa - Record-high floodwaters
"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/2=
5188193/
>
> "Iowa's worst damage so far was in Cedar Rapids, where the Cedar River
> crested Friday night at nearly 32 feet (9.75 meters), 12 feet (3.66
> meters) higher than the record set in 1929.
"http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/w=
eather/06/14/midwest.flooding.ap/index.html
>
> "Record flood levels have been observed in at least 51 gauge locations
> in southern Wisconsin and in Iowa....Twenty-four of the record flood
> locations were in Iowa, where 16% of the state's farm land has been
> inundated and nine rivers reached record levels. That volume of water
> is now heading toward the Mississippi River where a 150-mile stretch
> of the river in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri is expected to approach
> or exceed record levels this week from New Boston, Illinois, to
> Clarksburg, Missouri. "http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_15872.html
>
> " In 2007, Iowa had a record five disasters that received presidential
> emergency disaster declarations totaling more than $126 million in
> federal aid. It began with an ice storm in late February, followed by
> heavy snow a few days later in March, major spring flooding occurred
> in southwest iowa in May, more flooding across the state occurred in
> August, and another ice storm in December finished off the
year."http://w=
ww.iowahomelandsecurity.org/Disasters/DisastersinIowa/tabid/7...
>
> "Officials in Wisconsin, where this month's rainfall is approaching a
> record, planned to drain water from one reservoir to ease pressure on
> a dam, and were monitoring dams elsewhere in the state. ... By
> Wednesday morning, Milwaukee had measured 9.21 inches of rain this
> month, including a record 7.18 inches in a 48-hour period.
"http://www2.t=
bo.com/content/2008/jun/12/na-tornado-kills-4-at-scout-c...
>
> "Unprecedented flooding in Iowa
> Cedar Rapids, located on the Cedar River, is among Midwestern cities
> hardest hit by flooding. Officials there have expanded mandatory
> evacuation in that city to areas matching its 500-year flood-plain
> map. The Weather Service's River Forecast Center in Chanhassen, Minn.,
> predicts a flood crest of 24.5 feet on the Cedar River, 4.0 feet above
> the previous record flood there in
1929"http://www.chicagotribune.com/new=
s/local/chi-tom-skilling-explainer_0...
Iowa is in the midwest, Poundcake.
They get thundering blizzards in the winter with -70 wind chill temps
and yards-deep snowfall.
I know...I've shoveled my share.
They get floods regularly in the spring. I helped dike-up the Little
Sioux River when I was in college.
They get furious hail storms that will tear out whole sections of crop
land.
They nasty tornadoes. Periodically, one will flatten some small town.
This spring it was Parkersburg, which I am familiar with from visting
my grandparents many a summer. It's not far from where I grew up in
yet another small, Iowa town.
S**t happens weather-wise in Iowa and all of the midwest, you fat,
silly little man.
Now tell me...........can you even find Iowa on a map??
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"Ten minutes after you die, nobody will even remember you were
alive."
------------ "Zepp" Jamieson 4/6/08
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