Political Football

6/15/08

looking toward the north part of town, you can see the river front to the right – normally the water is 50-70 feet (to the right from this view) away from the railroad tracks.

So, you probably don’t want to park in THAT parking lot…. today anyway. This is a picture closer to the river on the Mississippi riverfront.

Flood waters are receding quickly on the Cedar River (affects Cedar Rapids and Muscatine) – not so much on the Iowa River (Iowa City) because the spillway is still open at Coralville Dam… muddy’s the water metaphorically and actually speaking. There are damaged bridges and other infrastructure damage – hopefully FEMA will kick in for much of that.

here is a quote from our esteemed governor – otherwise know as “The Big Lug”…

“It’s likely that we will see major and serious flooding on every part of the southeastern border of our state from New Boston and down,” Gov. Chet Culver said. “We are taking precautionary steps, we are evacuating where necessary, but that is going to be the next round here.”

I find this remarkable. New Boston is in Illinois. He’s the governor of Iowa, prolly should be more concerned about Muscatine across the border from New Boston.

6/16 pictures show water receding on Mississippi?

The Clamdigger is a statue on the river front – yesterday water was over the base of the statue. And you can see the water is no longer directly over the railroad ties (foreground).

you can see more flood damage here. Taking the link will show the Muscatine Journal – (Beau Huber’s) pictures of the roads that were closed and more… even when the water recedes it will take weeks before the east west roads are usable.

here is a sample of the damage:

here is a picture looking toward the Mississippi on the northern end of the River Drive through town

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