We spent a few hours in the basement. The rain lasted most of that time. Don't know how much fell yet.
Basically all of IA in in trouble, but I think central and eastern IA are in more dire straits than us because of your already flooding rivers.
Looks like it's just getting to you now. Hang in there. :grouphug:
ETA: From the Omaha World Herald.
Rain-swollen rivers rush banks: Iowans try to hold line against flooding
BY JOHN FERAK
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
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"Right now, it's not really bad in Hamburg, but the potential of it getting real bad is there," said Paul Johnston, spokesman for the Corps of Engineers in Omaha.
The Nishnabotna River reached 27.3 feet near Hamburg on Wednesday, down slightly from Tuesday's mark of 28.1 feet. Flood stage is 23 feet.
Corps officials traveled to Brownville to monitor levees and a rising Missouri River, which had reached 39.4 feet near Brownville, more than 7 feet above flood stage.
At Rulo, the Missouri reached 24 feet, more than 7 feet above flood levels. At Plattsmouth, it had reached 27.4 feet, slightly above its flood level of 25 feet.
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In western Iowa's Fremont County, some paved roads and numerous gravel roads remained closed because of flooding, said Craig Marshall, the county's acting emergency management coordinator.
Fremont County shut down a four-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 275 from the Missouri state line at county road J64, near Hamburg, as well as closing county roads J46 west of Riverton and L68 north of Riverton.
One eastbound lane of U.S. Highway 2 in Fremont County was closed while crews pumped water back into the Missouri River near Nebraska City, Marshall said.
Crawford County officials closed U.S. Highway 30 between Denison and Dunlap, Iowa, because the Boyer River had spilled over the highway.
The Corps of Engineers delivered water pumps and thousands of sandbags to Hamburg, Clarinda, Essex, Red Oak and Logan in Iowa, and to Grand Island and Merrick County in Nebraska.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10356006