VIDEO: Great Lakes and Midwest see rising water levels

[EB News Bot]

Rising water levels in the Midwest and Great Lakes have been welcomed in some areas, but have also presented challenges in other regions. After years of severe drought, the Midwest and Great Lakes regions have experienced a rise in water levels due to the deep freeze and heavy snowfall last winter, and in many areas...more

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[Peels]

we are SWAMPED!

Good ole mississippi is having a another 500 year flood within 6 years....

24 foot crest this weekend(at least I hope thats as high as it gets) flood stage is 15. major is 18. 2008 was 25 i think.

wish we could share this water with the southwest..and Cali.

heres the graph.

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=dvn&gage=BRLI4


My wife was in the quad cities for work yesterday, and got stuck half way, as they closed highway 61 south of muscatine in the afternoon. its underwater.... She had to find a way around. Feel for those near these rivers... hope it goes down as fast as it is rising.

Coralville reservoir, where we usually go, is probably going to overtake the dam....next week sometime. Might help some sandbagging if they need it.

They got POUNDED with rain mid to north Iowa. and Minnesota.

 

[nathan]

I would take all you can spare!! I don't see why the states or government cannot work together to build either new rivers or even pipe line to help move the water to lakes or areas that need them. That way when it starts to flood up north they could open the pipes to drain the flood waters to drought places and keep the flooding down.

 

[Peels]

I can truck some down to you....

I agree though....would be a HUGE HUGE pipe...but humanity has done bigger projects, for less important reasons.