Our city manager just declared a state of emergency....

[mcctatas]

50-75% of our roads are flooded, 5,000+ people without power and another freaking thunderstorm just started? Since I live in a split level and the water is only 1 inch below my living room windows! :scared:

WTF is up with the weather???

[shadowknows69]

1. Get off the net and get yourself safe

[mcctatas]

10. We're all upstairs and I have to keep the laptop up and going

because the cable went out, no weather updates without the net. It's safe if it's wireless, right?

[Wiley50]

16. If you mean "wireless" like a cell modem

but what will you do when the laptop batteries go down
Is the Grid Power still on?

If it's up to your windows
How are you keeping it out of the doors?

Seems to me if water is that high
you can't leave anyway
unless you have a boat
(One of the reasons I live in a boat)

Good Luck!

Try to keep dry

[mcctatas]

22. Split level home means that half of our bottom floor is

semi-underground. The door is up a flight of stairs. Our part of town still has power, no cable, but at least we have electricity, so when I say the water is almost up to my living room window, on a normal house it would be no big deal, but my living room window is only 6 inches off the ground. I'm sorry if the description was confusing...

[Alameda]

2. Oh....I'm sorry to read that

good luck....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. what Shadowknows says

Please be safe!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Get off the net and get to high ground

this is no joking matter... and don't let fear freeze you either

[Fresh_Start]

5. We have a water emergency , the weather is incredible

too little rain for three years. Drought conditions. Lots of fires very very very early in the fire season.

[stevil]

6. Be safe!

Get to the roof.

[az chela]

7. Where do you live??

I have never seen weather like this.I lived half my life in michigan and we had tornadoes,one killed almost 300 people but it was never every day like it has been.This is damn scary

[mcctatas]

13. WI...

this is the strangest weather I have ever experienced in my more than 20 years of being a cheddarhead!

[weezy2736]

8. Serious condolences! What state are you living in?

I have a friend in Wisconsin who is unable to go to work because their car's engine is flooded.

[Pirate Smile]

9. No kidding.

I'm in Cedar Rapids.

[lonestarnot]

12. Oh shit!

I'm sorry Pirate Smile! :hug:

[Pirate Smile]

21. Thanks. My house isn't in a flooded area but everything is shut down and kind of crazy.

[lonestarnot]

24. That is good news, but for the what's to come. Wonder what is

being done for people if anything.

[Delphinus]

18. I'm sending you,

and all effected by these flood waters, many prayers. :hug: My heart goes out to all of you.

[mcctatas]

23. Oh man...

I'm sorry. Here I am complaining and you guys/gals have it much worse than us. My thoughts are with you :hi:

[Shoelace]

31. get out of Cedar Rapids - river to be 13 ft. above historical flood levels - please

get out of that city while you still can. I just heard Dr. Forbes on Weather Channel say that he's never seen anything like it and he was really taken aback, you could tell. '93 level of river was 20 ft - major flood then.
Tomorrow, that river will crest at 33 ft! 13 ft above major flood level.

Please go while you can get out and report back if you can.
Follow this here at the NOAA hydrological graph, info.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=dvn&gage=cidi4&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1

[lonestarnot]

11. Don't you need to evacuate?

I :scared: for you! Please be safe!

[mcctatas]

15. We can't even if we need to (which I don't think we will)

most of the roads are closed or flooded. Kinda wishing I had a canoe, or better yet, a houseboat with a fully loaded fridge and bar...

[lonestarnot]

19. OMG.

What do you have that floats?

[Shoelace]

33. yikes, I didn't see your post here - prayers for your safety

it's heartbreaking to see this happening. We send big Protection Angels to you and all those in that city. Davenport isn't doing too good right now either.
For that matter, half the counties in Ia. are declared a state of disaster.
Hope you can report back.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Yikes! Be careful and stay safe

[Ilsa]

17. Please, be careful about the water you consume.

It is usually polluted. I hope you have the means to disinfect water for consumption, or have stored some potable water.

[Swamp Rat]

20. Fill a bath tub with water ASAP if you have one.

Move your food and water upstairs (batteries, extra linen), and any tools you have in case you need to break through the roof. Do you have any life preservers? Anything inflatable?

I hope you will be ok. :hug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. And some clorox to disinfect that water... it is no longer safe

a few drops in a litter of water will do the trick

Lord I hate this

[Cleita]

25. Better get to a safe place.

I'm praying for you.

[mcctatas]

26. picture....

It wouldn't be so bad, but all of our storm drains flow into the lake, which is now too high to take the influx. The people on the other side of town have it worse, my MIL said that thier manhole covers are coming up? Never heard of that before. Of course, our situation in my city pales in comparasine to many other places hit by severe weather lately, but for us, this is new and scary...

[Cleita]

27. Thanks to BushCo our infrastructure is in disrepair and is deteriorating

nationwide. Damn! He needs to be made accountable, he and his minions for so many transgressions.

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. That bridge, not really

for once I will hold mother nature accountable.

Been in floods, trust me... water has some force

[PeaceNikki]

28. Wow! Our manhole covers were coming up last weekend. Also WI.

[mcctatas]

29. Jeez...

I almost miss the summers when my biggest complaints were heat, humidity, Lake Flies and the annual influx of FIBS;)

[nadinbrzezinski]

49. AH memories from MEXICO CITY when I was growing up

:-)

[ourbluenation]

30. any updates mcctatas?

[mcctatas]

32. Seems to be a lull in the storm....

my husband dug a big ugly ditch to drain water away from the windows, we still have power, but it looks like they lost it a few blocks away. A lot of sirens, but we are all fine. Thanks for asking :hi:

[Shoelace]

34. looks like a whole line of t storms coming yet

check out radar from NWS/NOAA's website. This is a really good website to see what is ahead for you. More prayers sent your way.

http://www.weather.gov/radar_tab.php

Main page is here with all the warnings, etc:
http://www.weather.gov/

[mcctatas]

37. Holy shit...

The people on the south side are being displaced by the storm already, so far we've been pretty lucky, but I don't know how much more luck we have left if all that is headed our way! Thanks for the info...

[Shoelace]

40. Wunderground also has an excellent "warning" page

so you can see the warnings for Wisconson as they come in. Iowa has flooding AND tornadoes too. I think that Iowa's flooding will be their worst in history from the sound of it. Still sending you Protection Angels!

To the right of this Severe weather page, there's all the states listed and you can click on them, your county to see the warnings.

http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp

Also, Dr. Master's blog on Wunderground has professional mets there posting warnings too:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=961&tstamp=200806

[mcctatas]

48. Thank you so much...

that site is so much more helpful than my local news!

[ourbluenation]

38. keeping a good thought for you and your family.

:hug:

[malaise]

35. Time to disconnect your electricity and

seek higher ground. Stay safe. :grouphug:

Where are Bush and FEMA.
sp

[FloridaJudy]

36. Yikes!

And hurricane season just began. Mother Nature is seriously pissed off this year. Stay safe. :hug:

[silverojo]

39. Global warming takes its toll

Meanwhile, the Repukes still live in a state of denial.

As the others here have said, do what you can to stay safe. The tornadoes have been bad enough, but the damned flooding is unreal!

My family's praying for you, as well....

[Theres-a]

41. Stay safe

Kansas ,Iowa ,Wisconsin,anybody hear from Indiana lately?

[nadinbrzezinski]

43. I went to the FEMA site, federal disaster up

[Theres-a]

44. Indiana and Illinois,too?

This is just tragic. 5 states in turmoil.

[nadinbrzezinski]

46. I only saw Indiana, and I know I have CALLS to make

in the morning.

This is larger in scope than a single state can handle, let alone this large regional area

[KitchenWitch]

45. Please stay safe!

:hug:

[mcctatas]

50. More pictures....

some of these are ones I took, others came from our newspaper website...

[mcctatas]

51. Update: Friday....

So we escaped most of the deluge. Over 50% of households weren't as lucky, many suffering extensive water damage and businesses across the river are still shut down today. I cannot imagine how the people in Iowa are coping, we had no loss of life and comparatively little damage in our area, my heart goes out to our neighbors to the south :hug: