Midwest flooding

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Iowa's getting hit by flooding now.

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As the Mississippi River climbs toward a crest that would be among the 10 highest recorded at Dubuque, pumps already are discharging water from basements in East Dubuque.

“For us, it’s a matter of what infiltrates through the ground,” said Loras Herrig, East Dubuque’s interim city manager. “It’s not a matter of over-topping anything — it’s the groundwater. As the groundwater gets higher and higher, most of the businesses in the downtown area that have basements begin pumping out water.”

The river had topped 21.1 feet as of 8 p.m. Monday at Dubuque’s railroad bridge, according to the National Weather Service. The forecast calls for the river to reach 22.5 feet by Friday, April 5, which would be the 10th-highest crest in Dubuque and the highest since 2011. The flood stage is 17 feet.

The weather service said additional rainfall could prompt a revision of the forecast.

Fortunately we haven't had much precipitation around here over the past couple weeks so it's allowing some drying out to occur.  We live pretty high up too so if the Mississippi River reached us you would probably need to start lining up pairs of animals and building a big ass boat. 

Farmers are taking a hit due to this

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The Black Hawk military helicopter flew over Iowa, giving a senior U.S. agriculture official and U.S. senator an eyeful of the flood damage below, where yellow corn from ruptured metal silos spilled out into the muddy water.

And there’s nothing the U.S. government can do about the millions of bushels of damaged crops here under current laws or disaster-aid programs, U.S. Agriculture Under Secretary Bill Northey told a Reuters reporter who joined the flight.

The USDA has no mechanism to compensate farmers for damaged crops in storage, Northey said, a problem never before seen on this scale. That’s in part because U.S. farmers have never stored so much of their harvests, after years of oversupplied markets, low prices and the latest blow of lost sales from the U.S. trade war with China - previously their biggest buyer of soybean exports.

The USDA last year made $12 billion in aid available to farmers who suffered trade-war losses, without needing Congressional approval. The agency has separate programs that partially cover losses from cattle killed in natural disasters, compensate farmers who cannot plant crops due to weather, and help them remove debris left in fields after floods.

Of course Fornicate Face will probably try to blame the Democrats for the flooding. 

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Here's a facebook group that has pictures of the Mississippi river, including the recent flooding. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/707233279324256/

If I can I'll throw some up somewhere so people here can see what the river is like where I live.

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As promised here's some photos from the riverfront area.

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmCjicNp

 

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Davenport is getting hit hard now by flooding, with a good part of their downtown under water...

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Downtown Davenport was flooded after a HESCO barrier along River Drive failed at Pershing Avenue.  Water was sent rushing into 2nd Street.

Emergency crews were on scene and bridge travel was impacted.  About 25 people were evacuated near 2nd Street west of Brown Street.

There were no reported injuries.

And of course what does fuck head do?  Call for more money for his dumb fuck wall...ugh.