at this site http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25020185/ click on thre launch, ladies with red umbrella. pics 1-6 then click more pics. 1 with cows on porch, does anyone know him? we all need to pray for these people who are losing thier homes. is everyone on heere ok?
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bigbull338
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the states with all the flooding are getting dumped on good.alot of towns an houses will prolly be wiped out.
From my office, I sit in a flood plain. I can look out my window and see a federal levee with water from the Missouri river half way up the sides, and it is going to rise a couple more feet today. Last year, we had to evacuate the bank because of the threat of flood, but it never materialized. We should be OK for now, as long as the levee holds. Don't want to have to do a mass evacuation. :???:
TexasBred
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Might be a good time to call Mr. Bandit and try to "float a loan". ;-) Sure hope things don't get any worse than they already are. Appears lots of good folks have lost everything.
Some of my customers have been moving grain, equipment, livestock and personal items out of the flood plain around here. Just our customers alone account for about 8000 acres that could be under the Mississippi. Calling this one worse than 1993.
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skyline
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That's just awful. My heart goes out to all of them.
Australian Cattleman
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We have been seeing limited coverage of the US floods,but whats happened in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids takes me back to 1974 when record floods hit Brisbane and inundated a lot of the city centre. It will happen again in lots of towns because of the clamour for real estate and shortage of land on these floodplains. In the valley to our east where I grew up there are houses built on mounds and homes in flood prone areas that I have seen deep water running by. I have spent lots of flood events rowing boats to get to livestock and to get to work. Thankfully I live in a nice safe flood free area. The only worries about floods is having to fix the occasional damaged fence. Our thoughts are with the mid west residents.
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iowafarmer
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Yeah its crazy. Thankfully for me it is nowhere near here since we have not had the rains as much as them. They are saying that the river is 20 feet above flood level. The water is jsut startign to go down in Cedar Rapids but htey said it will be weeks before it is back to normal levels. I'm wondering what will happen to the university of iowa since it was going under water. Tehy are saying it is like a 500 year flood or something but how would they know if its 500 years cause no one has been here that long besides Indians. The rivers came out of their banks here but it was only up fora day and no more than what happens in the spring when snow melts.
Yeah, NW Iowa has been relatively fortunate. We've had enough rain here, but not too much. Rain kept folks out of the field longer than they wanted during planting season, but those problems pale in comparison to the flooding in the Eastern part of the state.
backhoeboogie
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bandit80":2zroio68 said:
I have to ask after seeing all the pics and clips, why do people and towns build on the flood plain? I don't even store hay on the upper flood plain and it has never flooded in my life time. The lower flood plains get flooded every 7 or 8 years and there are no levees. The water would have to rise 50 feet above flood stage to get to the edge of the upper flood plain and no one builds on it here. Why do they do it there?
backhoeboogie":uynqbzj9 said:
I often wonder that myself. This town was under 8-10 feet of water in 1993, flooded in 1952, don't know of any before that, but I am sure there were some. Can't speak for everyone else, I sure the be nice would never build or buy a home on a flood plain. Makes no sense to me.
TexasBred
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Bandit you havent' seen or heard anything yet. Folks upstream are getting flooded and will survive. They are survivors......When that water hits New Orleans that's when the cameras will roll and the "where's the govt" folks will hit the streets. Mayor Nagen is probably already getting his white suit pressed and memorizing his speeches.
This is not like Katrina. By the time it gets to NO they'll have had weeks of notice to do something. Wonder if they will.
This is not like Katrina. By the time it gets to NO they'll have had weeks of notice to do something. Wonder if they will.
TexasBred":pekis4zy said:
Our threat is subsiding, river is back down, but still runnig bank full. Suppose to continue to drop over the next several days.
I feel sorry for the folks in Iowa, and now all up and down the Mississippi who are being threatened by flood or are flooding.
You and I both know what the folks in NO will do. "Come save us, come save us". The Katrina thing and the way some of those people acted was ridiculous. Probably the same type of folks who sit and wait for their check each month to collect on a "disability". Really ticks me off all the people I see that sit back and collect a disability check every month. The only disability they have is they are too darn lazy to work. See it all the time working here. The people that really do have a disability can't get it.
Guy that works for my dad has two kids, ages 9 and 11. When he became eligible for social security a couple years ago, his kids got the same amount that he did. So, becuase he decided to have more kids when he was in his upper 50's you and I have to pay for it. What a joke.
Sorry for the ride down that road. Just a sore spot with me.
TexasBred
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Oh I think we agree 100%, 
chrisy
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Why? have they rebuilt it yet? It looked in a bad way when I saw it 2 years ago. sad what a few people done to that building. No helping some folks.MikeC":10l9x6d7 said:
Victoria
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My prayers have been with everyone flooding. I can't believe how bad some of the states have been. My heart breaks for everyone involved.
Haven't been on in awhile, some of the reason is due to our own flooding issues. It hasn't been as bad as 05 when we lost some calves but it's still caused a mess. No fence on one side and can't put it up as the river keeps coming up time and again, thankfully the cows are good about staying home. Only had an evacuation order once this year though with only 3 1/2 feet of water in the basement and we are more than 3 times the distance away from the river the MD recommends. Getting a little nervous though - seems the river might really have changed course this year and we may have really cut our property in nearly half.
Still hoping it will go back.
Haven't been on in awhile, some of the reason is due to our own flooding issues. It hasn't been as bad as 05 when we lost some calves but it's still caused a mess. No fence on one side and can't put it up as the river keeps coming up time and again, thankfully the cows are good about staying home. Only had an evacuation order once this year though with only 3 1/2 feet of water in the basement and we are more than 3 times the distance away from the river the MD recommends. Getting a little nervous though - seems the river might really have changed course this year and we may have really cut our property in nearly half.
Still hoping it will go back.
