In eastern Iowa it is not close to 2008 or 1993. Here is the Iowa River looking north at Park Road Bridge. To give you some idea of how big the flood was in 2008, This bridge was a few feet under water. Roads on left and right were not accessible. On the left, out of the frame of the photo, is Hancher Auditorium, no longer functional and soon to be relocated to higher ground.
Here (below) are photos taken just off of I-80, east of Altoona. This is not far from where the young teen was swept away by flash flooding. The photos don't do justice to the amount of water and the current sweeping across the road. The water in some of these photos is 4 - 5 feet deep. Keep in mind this is very flat land, so it's 4 - 5 feet deep (out of the banks of the South Skunk River) for acres and acres and acres. This is land that is normally dry, or growing crops.
I was talking to a man who actually lived up on a hill. He explained that the ground is so saturated that his basement took water because there is nowhere for the water to go.
So I took this photo from the parking lot of a Kum and Go Service Station, they had plenty of business, because the flood waters blocked to road to Casey's, across the street. We had rain and storms four nights in a row that brought 4 - 6 inches of rain each night. Crazy.
So all this night time rain brought forth an interesting factoid about Iowa. Apparently (according to KCRG Weather), due to the strange geographic location of Iowa, the state gets more rain at night than any other state in the US. It's similar to the way that southern Florida gets those afternoon storms between 4 - 6 p.m., then clears up. That's how Iowa's storms are, except between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. Strange, huh?
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