Flood Pictures From Des Moines

Posted by Stacy in Travel & Places on June 11, 2008 at 4:08 pm


Things are starting to get a little sticky here in Iowa… or watery, I guess, would be more appropriate.

Simon_estes

This is the Simon Estes Amphitheater in downtown Des Moines. On the left is what it should look like, and on the right is what it currently looks like. Yikes.

For more pictures of the flood thus far (I hear it’s supposed to get worse this week), check out Des Moines: It’s Kind of a Big Deal. I’m going to try to update as the week progresses, so we’ll see what happens!


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14 comments to "Flood Pictures From Des Moines"

  1. James Lewin
    June 11th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    Lots more images Flickr: 2008 Des Moines Flood

  2. StacyBee
    June 11th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    Great pictures, James!

  3. Robbie Helgason
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    cool pics. Mr. Lewin, did you guys get flooded?

  4. Johnny Cat
    June 11th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    This kind of thing happened in Portland about 8 years ago. It's rather unsettling.

  5. meghan
    June 11th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Between my home and work in south-central WI, four huge farms have been totally decimated, interstate highways have been closed, and many county roads have been washed out...and we're apparently far less affected than the Western part of the state.

    Ah, weather...

  6. Eric
    June 11th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    More pictures at http://iowaflood.com

  7. Archbob
    June 11th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    Time for emergency drain operation!

  8. andrewdoane
    June 12th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    I live about 500 feet from the Des Moines river near Euclid Avenue and the water is getting scary-close! All of the parking lots on Euclid near MLK are totally flooded - even the new Polk County building.

    No water in my basement yet, knock on wood. Even though we're so close to the river I think we're uphill enough that we will be okay. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if I could throw a rock into the flood waters from my front yard by the end of the week!

  9. kat
    June 12th, 2008 at 11:43 am

    entire towns around cedar rapids have been evacuated. due to a levee break, the entire downtown is flooded. our jail has been evacuated since it is placed on the island in the middle of the river. more rain is coming.

    today is my birthday, but i'm going to fill sandbags.

  10. StacyBee
    June 12th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    @Kat - happy birthday! So where did they evacuate the prisoners to?

  11. kat
    June 12th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    um... not sure, i know most of the jails here are full already. we've had a levee break, a railroad bridge collapse. our meter for measuring the river depth is broken and completely underwater, plus the current is too fast to measure it manually.

  12. Sheet
    June 13th, 2008 at 2:32 am

    Why would you build anything there in the first place? And why would you insist on trying keep on living there when this happens all the time? Beats me, this idiocy.

  13. Toasty
    June 13th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    Yeah.........

    It's like that joke that George Carlin tells about people move to Hawaii thinking it's paradise, build their dream home under the volcano, and wonder why there's lava flowing through their house the next year!

    :-)

  14. Online Advertising
    July 24th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Wow, That is just mortifying. These floods keep occurring at an alarming rate its scary.


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