Comments on: Flood Pictures From Des Moines

By: Online Advertising

Online Advertising — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:49:52 +0000

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

By: Toasty

Toasty — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:06:47 +0000

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!

By: Sheet

Sheet — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:32:13 +0000

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.

By: kat

kat — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:40:30 +0000

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.

By: StacyBee

StacyBee — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:50:27 +0000

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

By: kat

kat — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:43:57 +0000

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.

By: andrewdoane

andrewdoane — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:36:57 +0000

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!

By: Archbob

Archbob — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:30:58 +0000

Time for emergency drain operation!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:36:59 +0000

More pictures at http://iowaflood.com

By: meghan

meghan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:53:29 +0000

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...

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:41:37 +0000

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

By: Robbie Helgason

Robbie Helgason — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:34:53 +0000

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

By: StacyBee

StacyBee — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:50:38 +0000

Great pictures, James!

By: James Lewin

James Lewin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:25:11 +0000

Lots more images Flickr: 2008 Des Moines Flood