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Record floods in Iowa have humbled the city of Cedar Rapids and the surrounding areas. Hospitals have been evacuated and thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes. The Des Moines River, which is set 100 miles away is also a point of concern as water levels are now dangerously close to spilling over levees and into the heart of downtown Des Moines.
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8 responses // Record Flooding in Iowa

  • Decorah and Elkader...that's RIGHT where I'm from. This is heartbreaking, that's my home :(
    AnemicElitist
  • hmmm...."record" is a word i hear a lot these days!

    record heat
    record rainfall
    record freeze
    records for the amount of melting ice
    record warming of permafrost in Alaska
    record flood
    record snowfall
    record drought
    record fires
    record tornadic activity
    record typhoons

    i don't understand.. the people on FOX news assured me that global climate change was a left wing hoax to redistribute wealth....


    From A.P.

    Meteorologists have chronicled strange weather years for more than a decade, but nothing like 2007. It was such an extreme weather year that the World Meteorological Organization put out a news release chronicling all the records and unusual developments. That was in August with more than 145 sizzling days to go.

    Get used to it, scientists said. As human-made climate change continues, the world will experience more extreme weather, bursts of heat, torrential rain, and prolonged drought, they said.

    "We're having an increasing trend of odd years," said Michael MacCracken, a former top federal climate scientist, now chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington. "Pretty soon odd years are going to become the norm."
    rodajones
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  • Climate change.

    And I just want to say this does not justify the 2012 people. please read history, realize there are apocalypse panics every year. Get on the fatalist bandwagon, it is doing absolutely no good, and start doing something about climate change, aka consume less.
    aquamammal
  • and where the hell is the president Shrub? has he even uttered a word about this while he's partying overseas?
    gilraent
  • I'm in southern Wisconsin. We are getting hit hard, too. We had to evacuate our main office on Friday and the water continues to rise. It's not supposed to crest until Wednesday night. I've seen floods here before but never like this. Hmm . . . polar ice caps melting, weird weather and still climate change sceptics. Unbeleiveable!
    JoQ
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  • Yeah whatever to the guy who recorded a response "I like the resolve of Iowa people not waiting for the government to help them"" first of all many Black people got their boats and helped their fellow citizens and didn't wait for anyone to help them in New Orleans. How dare you make a statement like that. Second of all it is the governments responsibility to help its citizens and third of all if the government really listened to scientists report about global warming , preventitive measures could have been taken. Your little slick comment did not go unrecognized smarty pants! there is that racist sentiment when its black people in crisis they are waiting for someone for help them all of a sudden they are black instead of American citizens! One other person who actually got out thier to help the citizens of New Orleans before a government response was no other than movie star "Sean Penn"...why don't you watch when the levees fell by Spike Lee before you pass judgement deeming one group of citizens resolve more than others..
    gemenilaidback
  • We live in Wisconsin adn had some perty bad flooding too. a Boy not too far away from me got e.coli from going in the water in the streets.
    mintchip

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