2011 Floods

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.

 
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.

 
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strigori said:
Fuzzy said:
Worse than the 1995 flooding?
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Its getting more comparisons to the 1954 flooding that rerouted the Missouri river around Carter Lake
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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.

 
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Some pictures:

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Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
Some pictures:

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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.

 
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........

 
huskerscott said:
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.
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Yes, unfortunately. The parts of I-29 that aren't underwater look like a highway built in the middle of an ocean.

 
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.

 
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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.


 
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Blaze1up said:
Recently it's been under a no fly zone
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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.

 
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.

 
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