Blaze1up Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 New levees are breaking every day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mywuw1GXmj4&feature=related Nebraska nuclear plant close to flooding. http://www.omaha.com/article/20110619/NEWS01/110619670 KC is next to get hit. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-19/us/missouri.flooding_1_levees-swollen-missouri-river-flood-stage?_s=PM:US Quote Link to comment
ADS Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Drove over the Missouri river on Sunday coming home from Lee's Summit. We exited at St Joes to highway 36 east to head towards Marysville, KS. That river is about as full as I have ever seen it in my life. Quote Link to comment
jsneb83 Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 The Corps said that due to the recent storms, they have increased the flow of Gavins Point Dam to 155,000 cfs, and will increase to 160,000 on Thursday. Quote Link to comment
Fuzzy Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Worse than the 1995 flooding? Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Worse than the 1995 flooding? Pretty bad flooding on the Mississippi in 2008 too. I'll know it's worse this year if Barack Obama shows up to my town again to help with the sandbags. Quote Link to comment
strigori Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Worse than the 1995 flooding? Its getting more comparisons to the 1954 flooding that rerouted the Missouri river around Carter Lake Quote Link to comment
huskerscott Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Worse than the 1995 flooding? Its getting more comparisons to the 1954 flooding that rerouted the Missouri river around Carter Lake Was in 1952 or 1954. I heard comparisons to the '52 flood more than anything. This has way exceeded the 1993 flood. I didnt live in the area at the time but the old timers talk about the 1993 and 1952 flood around here. Quote Link to comment
huskerscott Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Some pictures: Is the top picture I-29 south of Neb City. I drove over that stretch 2 weeks ago and it didnt even remotely look like that. Yes you could tell the river/streams were way up. The only land flooding I saw was just outside Neb City across the river by highway 2, which didnt strike me as unusual since I saw that samething last 2 out of 3 summers. Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 You know my wife keeps telling me that she doesn't want to move to the coasts because of hurricanes, but I've lived in Iowa my entire life and it's like this every year it seems. While the flooding doesn't effect me in anyway, as I don't live near a large water source, it's a neverending cycle and it's getting old. Heart goes out to folks effected........ Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Is the top picture I-29 south of Neb City. I drove over that stretch 2 weeks ago and it didnt even remotely look like that. Yes you could tell the river/streams were way up. The only land flooding I saw was just outside Neb City across the river by highway 2, which didnt strike me as unusual since I saw that samething last 2 out of 3 summers. Yes, unfortunately. The parts of I-29 that aren't underwater look like a highway built in the middle of an ocean. Quote Link to comment
krill Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 I had to go to KC last weekend and it was a giant mess with I-29 closed... Also, anyone else getting a little unsettled with this business at the Fort Calhoun reactor? Apparently there's already been a fire that knocked out spent fuel cooling for a few hours and the whole facility looks like it's underwater. The Cooper reactor is also in danger of being underwater pretty soon...and with snowpack still building in the Rockies who knows how long the flood season will last. Quote Link to comment
Blaze1up Posted June 23, 2011 Author Share Posted June 23, 2011 Recently it's been under a no fly zone and I've read it's at a level 4 emergency, I think for media purposes but the whole thing seems sketchy and a cover up. Quote Link to comment
krill Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Recently it's been under a no fly zone All nuclear power plants have had a no fly zone over them since 9/11 and the rumors of radiation leakage from a partial fuel meltdown were from the Russian nuclear agency. I'm just worried that after the Fukushima disaster any sort of problem, at worst a safe level of radiation release, will turn into national pandemonium and more trouble for farmers in the area. If Calhoun and Cooper both go offline indefinitely we're also going to be paying much more for electricity. Quote Link to comment
GM_Tood Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 The river was at 44.78ft at Brownville (12:15PM today)....45.5ft is where Cooper shuts down. Link This site is a good one to use to see current and projected river depths. I was reading an article saying at 150000cfs release from Gavins Point Dam, it would fill a football field in just under a minute with 156ft deep of water. Amazing stuff. Quote Link to comment
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