Silverstar
Well-Known Member
Well, it's been about a week now since the floods washed through here. I would have never thought I would see any flooding on this scale so close to where I live. I'm sure many of you, stateside and international, have gotten a glimpse of the damage from aerial shots and bits of pictures.
But I thought I would show a collection of photos I have starting from Tuesday the 10th of June, untill today June 19th for me. I know there is a bit here, but I thought it would be appropriate enough to show them. This flood is going down in history. It was a 500 year flood, but went past even that prediction in terms of area that got affected in my area.
For reference, I live in town where marked and I have circled where the majority of these pictures were taken.
http://img136.imageshack.**/img136/7928/locationoa7.jpg
June 10th:
I drove out to the newest addition called Cedar Heights. Maybe two miles from the main part of town. I had thought there wasn't going to be much to see, but in the following days...boy I was wrong.
Here is the lowest part of the housing area, there is never water here. It should be back about 100m to the left of this photo.
http://img208.imageshack.**/img208/4523/dsc0583kf1.jpg
This sign is about 5ft/1.5m high, you'll see another shot of this later
http://img176.imageshack.**/img176/5732/dsc0614po4.jpg
Across bridge, shot is looking to the northeast...water is up about 3ft from normal. Trees in background are under, housing is just on the other side of them.
http://img114.imageshack.**/img114/9132/dsc0560vo9.jpg
This is the final time I would be on this road, as you can see the water has already crept up and starting to move over the road. This is on the southside of the river, looking back to the bridge.
http://img114.imageshack.**/img114/3773/dsc0537sk7.jpg
June 11th:
Went back to the neighborhood and bridge...got worse.
Looking down the street, drove down there just 24 hours before, sign I took a shot of is now under water.
http://img208.imageshack.**/img208/9335/dsc0011xy4.jpg
Shooting to the Southwest on the upstream side, almost above the support columns.
http://img254.imageshack.**/img254/5188/dsc0058vf9.jpg
Water is now up and over the road I was parked on, downstream side of the road causing the water to turn into rapids
http://img208.imageshack.**/img208/6438/dsc0091ud2.jpg
http://img379.imageshack.**/img379/2386/dsc0093yr0.jpg
Road starting to get taken out here, and those people across there were cut off from any town untill just this Monday, both this side and the closest city to them went under.
http://img379.imageshack.**/img379/2686/dsc0119wp9.jpg
Went and volunteered on the night of the 11th to try and save the houses that were about to take on water.
http://img528.imageshack.**/img528/5784/dsc0297rq2.jpg
http://img528.imageshack.**/img528/4426/dsc0304sp1.jpg
June 12th:
Back down to town again, up another 2ft from the day before
http://img529.imageshack.**/img529/5384/dsc0387zg6.jpg
Didn't go across the bridge this time, though some did get gutsy...water up way over the support columns, almost touching the center of the support beams. Raining real hard here.
http://img516.imageshack.**/img516/5035/dsc0391os0.jpg
June 13th
Cousin calls me, tells me he'll be at my door in 15min. We're going to a town called Tipton that is going to direct us to small towns along the Cedar River that are still downstream from where we are and try to help.
So we get to Tipton and they direct us to a township called Rochester, population 600. We get there and things are already grim.
We arrived and this is what was left for sand. We talked to one of the firefighters and she said it was the last the town was going to get, that the county needed sand elsewhere to protect bigger towns. It's such a sad situation...they are right on the banks of the Cedar River.
Cop blocking Iowa Highway 1, flooded about four miles up from there
http://img518.imageshack.**/img518/2172/dsc0023ls0.jpg
http://img241.imageshack.**/img241/6721/dsc031rs7.jpg
So I went down the block and took a couple shots...
http://img241.imageshack.**/img241/9292/dsc0033rx3.jpg
There should be another street behind the red barn to the right, and the river should be about 100yds behind that.
http://img241.imageshack.**/img241/2146/dsc0047dy7.jpg
http://img518.imageshack.**/img518/4185/dsc0072ae8.jpg
But I thought I would show a collection of photos I have starting from Tuesday the 10th of June, untill today June 19th for me. I know there is a bit here, but I thought it would be appropriate enough to show them. This flood is going down in history. It was a 500 year flood, but went past even that prediction in terms of area that got affected in my area.
For reference, I live in town where marked and I have circled where the majority of these pictures were taken.
http://img136.imageshack.**/img136/7928/locationoa7.jpg
June 10th:
I drove out to the newest addition called Cedar Heights. Maybe two miles from the main part of town. I had thought there wasn't going to be much to see, but in the following days...boy I was wrong.
Here is the lowest part of the housing area, there is never water here. It should be back about 100m to the left of this photo.
http://img208.imageshack.**/img208/4523/dsc0583kf1.jpg
This sign is about 5ft/1.5m high, you'll see another shot of this later
http://img176.imageshack.**/img176/5732/dsc0614po4.jpg
Across bridge, shot is looking to the northeast...water is up about 3ft from normal. Trees in background are under, housing is just on the other side of them.
http://img114.imageshack.**/img114/9132/dsc0560vo9.jpg
This is the final time I would be on this road, as you can see the water has already crept up and starting to move over the road. This is on the southside of the river, looking back to the bridge.
http://img114.imageshack.**/img114/3773/dsc0537sk7.jpg
June 11th:
Went back to the neighborhood and bridge...got worse.
Looking down the street, drove down there just 24 hours before, sign I took a shot of is now under water.
http://img208.imageshack.**/img208/9335/dsc0011xy4.jpg
Shooting to the Southwest on the upstream side, almost above the support columns.
http://img254.imageshack.**/img254/5188/dsc0058vf9.jpg
Water is now up and over the road I was parked on, downstream side of the road causing the water to turn into rapids
http://img208.imageshack.**/img208/6438/dsc0091ud2.jpg
http://img379.imageshack.**/img379/2386/dsc0093yr0.jpg
Road starting to get taken out here, and those people across there were cut off from any town untill just this Monday, both this side and the closest city to them went under.
http://img379.imageshack.**/img379/2686/dsc0119wp9.jpg
Went and volunteered on the night of the 11th to try and save the houses that were about to take on water.
http://img528.imageshack.**/img528/5784/dsc0297rq2.jpg
http://img528.imageshack.**/img528/4426/dsc0304sp1.jpg
June 12th:
Back down to town again, up another 2ft from the day before
http://img529.imageshack.**/img529/5384/dsc0387zg6.jpg
Didn't go across the bridge this time, though some did get gutsy...water up way over the support columns, almost touching the center of the support beams. Raining real hard here.
http://img516.imageshack.**/img516/5035/dsc0391os0.jpg
June 13th
Cousin calls me, tells me he'll be at my door in 15min. We're going to a town called Tipton that is going to direct us to small towns along the Cedar River that are still downstream from where we are and try to help.
So we get to Tipton and they direct us to a township called Rochester, population 600. We get there and things are already grim.
We arrived and this is what was left for sand. We talked to one of the firefighters and she said it was the last the town was going to get, that the county needed sand elsewhere to protect bigger towns. It's such a sad situation...they are right on the banks of the Cedar River.
Cop blocking Iowa Highway 1, flooded about four miles up from there
http://img518.imageshack.**/img518/2172/dsc0023ls0.jpg
http://img241.imageshack.**/img241/6721/dsc031rs7.jpg
So I went down the block and took a couple shots...
http://img241.imageshack.**/img241/9292/dsc0033rx3.jpg
There should be another street behind the red barn to the right, and the river should be about 100yds behind that.
http://img241.imageshack.**/img241/2146/dsc0047dy7.jpg
http://img518.imageshack.**/img518/4185/dsc0072ae8.jpg
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