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I went to Iowa City yesterday. Driving through my own town and all the other flooded towns and parts of Iowa City was so sad. I just wanted to cry. People were emptying out all the businesses and food joints on one stretch of road in Iowa City that the road just opened back up on. It was...

Quote: Tyson plant is letting the town use their water supply. They have their own water tower that was unaffected by the flood. The red cross is helping people who need it. The town's water supply should be clean and running again soon they hope. We don't have city water though, we have...

Quote: No I am not close to to there. Des Moines is a few hours away but they had flood damages also. Here is a place you can see a bunch of flood photos in a slideshow from places in Iowa and Illinois. It is one of my local news channels and they have been getting flood photos from viewers...

I hope you save the pump station. People in our town were still trying to save it as the levee broke and had to be forced to leave:( I was going to look into getting a job in town so I didn't have to drive so far but almost all the major business in town flooded.

Quote: I just found this thread today. Viewed your pictures, thanks for sharing, I am practically in tears, how are the floods now? In our town the water went down 3 feet but there is still water everywhere. I heard on the news even more levees down river have broken and taken out entire...

Quote: Yep, he is but it's the only way to work so he has too. I've heard the flood is moving on down the river. It was in Burlington, IA yesterday causing a mess there. They have a huge backup of barge traffic also as all the locks and dams are closed to barge traffic from Muscatine, IA to...

Blog from a Columbus Junction resident http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/06/15/photos-flooding-columbus-junction/ The town does not have any water right now that is safe so they are giving bottled water out at the High School. We don't need it though. We aren't on the cities water supply with...

Bad news for my town:( The levee did not hold. Town flooded. We have no gas station, no grocery store, no anything now. It's all flooded. Just showed the photos on CBS Evening National News. It's just horrid. How am I going to help my fellow town folk? We don't live in the town but...

Columbus Junction is giving out bottled water right now at the High School. The National Guard has all the roads that lead into town closed so I'm not even sure what town looks like now. All the stores in town are closed so if you need anything you have to find a way around the road closures...

Quote: We saw footage of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids on our local news tonight. We're hoping to hear from SIL and family who live in Iowa City. Don't know if they're up high or not. No answer at the house. Trying to find SIL's cell #. aaaaaahhhh! I hope you get through to them and hope they...

Quote: Yeah, it is awful. Columbus Junction just gave up trying to save the water supply. And more Louisa County towns were required to evacuate. We are lucky and live up high out in the county. We have our own well water and so far we can make it into Washington just fine if we need...

The Washington, IA airport took in some planes today from airports that are going to be underwater. My parents drove to Washington today to stock up since the water might make it so we can't get out of our rural area and into town. The mail lady told me we may not have mail tomorrow if the...

I just heard Iowa City is now having a mandatory evacuation. Cedar Rapids already had a real bad flood:( Most of the town of Cedar Rapids is under water and they only have one well that is clean for the entire town:( Our town's (Columbus Junction, IA) crest is suppossed to be Sunday or...

Quote: farmgirlie1031 and d.c. thanks for checking in and hope you too are ok. farmgirlie1031 when you mentioned Tyson I thought of the chicken "farms",; do you know if they are flooding? Tyson is close enough to the river there is a chance of flooding. This one is a meat processing plant...

My town is expecting to break the 1993 record. But we will be ok. We don't live in the town we live out in the county and if our place is so high up the hill it won't flood at all. I didn't live here in 1993 but I know what the floods were like in the Parkville and Riverside Missouri area in...