Quad Cities on Iowa-Illinois border preparing for flooding
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- With the snowmelt in Minnesota, towns to the south along the Mississippi River are preparing for the worst. The Quad Cities on the Iowa and Illinois border have been been fighting these floods for years and are putting plans in place to try and prevent destruction. FOX Weather's Robert Ray is in Davenport, Iowa, with the latest.
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Listening to the Zepparelas -When the Levee breaks -would be appropriate for the next few months😊
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But shouldn't these floodwaters restore the river at points further south where I am seeing you tube videos showing record low levels?
And when we try and look at watersheds, wetlands and WOTUS, it’s labeled “government over-reach”? This problems needs to be addressed upriver, as well as down.
Iowa used to be full of swales and wetlands, etc. It was all drained to create more farmland. These areas "held back" water that could become floods. No more.
What did they expect? This isn’t the first time. It’s just like living in the woods, There’s the risk of forest fires. It’s called ‘life’.
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No, this is abnormal.
BUT ...
Davenport is one of the few big towns along the Miss that does not have a permanent levee system. The city council looked at the cost about 40 - 50 years ago and it turns out that rebuilding and repairing after floods is MUCH CHEAPER than building a levee. So a policy was adopted to try to turn riverside (the normal flood plain) into parkland. It's been progressing, but slowly. Businesses are encouraged to build on higher ground, or to redesign their 1st (and maybe 2nd) floors to be flooded once in awhile and then easily cleaned up.
Big plus, keeping that wonderful view. I don't know if they're still doing that.
There used to be (I moved out about 25 years ago) a wonderful restaurant built on a boat barge and anchored to the shoreline.
*This flood is higher than normal.*
Flooding does happen regularly. That's why insurance companies stopped selling flood insurance. Federal flood insurance is available but they'll open pay out ONCE. I sometimes drove by a house on the rural fringes that was mounted on 30 foot steel posts, up in the air. I guess they really wanted to stay there.
Oh, and the forest fires out west for the last 5 - 10 years are abnormal too, too often, too large.
Dang. Another one of those 2o year floods they keep warning us about.
From, 0:28, California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah would ❤ to take that excess water to fill Powell & Mead reservoirs!
If only it worked that way. There are parts of the Midwest that haven’t received their average rainfall in several seasons now. Hopefully some of their aquifers get restored to closer to normal levels.
In another hundred years this planet will be piped and wired like a modern house. Betcha.
I'm 150 miles upriver atm and getting rain for the next 4 days plus there is still a little of the recent 6" snow to melt. Not much good news for you here until Sunday when the sun comes back out.
The Mississippi used to be quite a bit lower north from Davenport, full of rocks too. Then the Army Corps of Engineers moved in and built and these locks and dams. The plan was deliberately to make the Miss deeper for commercial boat traffic. It's worked very well; but it's not natural.
@@veramae4098 Yep,sound right, was it the early 1900s when they got serious about deppening channels and so-called flood control?. The old paddleboat steamers(1800s) used to get stuck and sink fairly often,well, if they didn't blow up from too much heat in the boiler! LOL.
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ROARING WAVES
REVELATION 12:12
TIME SHALL BE SHORTENED.
MATTHEW 24:22. MARK 13:20
ALL THINGS SHALL COME TO AN END.
GOD GAVE US TIME TO APPRECIATE LIFE.
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Lose your balance on slippery mud, 🤔 hmm. Nice recovery. Maybe if you fall on the back of your head we could give you an MRI.