IranContraScumDid911 on Jun 25, 2011
Council Bluffs, IA - Iowa's number one flooding focus is in the Omaha metro.
Major General Tim Orr of the Iowa National Guard says his top priority is protecting the levee system in Council Bluffs, and the National Guard is the first line of defense.
As the state looks to keep an entire city above water, the Missouri River is just relentless.
IranContraScumDid911 on Jun 25, 2011
This could be a Katrina meets Fukushima if one of the large levees breaks .... Council Bluffs, - One look and it's safe to say the number nine fairway at Dodge Riverside Golf Course is definitely below par. That's because water from the rising Missouri River has seeped under the levee.
In their fight against the flood, the Army Corps of Engineers is installing seepage blankets at 12 different locations around Council Bluffs to support the levees and protect the people who live there. "There is a large impact, we know there's 61,000 people in the areas behind these levees that would be inundated if we had a problem," Colonel Bob Ruch Omaha District Commander for the Army Corps of Engineers said.
IranContraScumDid911 on Jun 25, 2011
Rising water will continue through summer .... The Missouri River was 34.7-feet deep at Omaha and Council Bluffs Thursday, nearly six-feet above the flood stage of 29-feet. .... Brownville, NE - (AP) - The failure of a Missouri River levee in northwest Missouri offered a brief reprieve Friday from flooding near the Cooper nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska, although officials expect the waterway to rise back up to a threatening level. The National Weather Service said the river dropped more than a foot at Brownville to 43.1 feet Friday morning after the breach Thursday evening upstream in northwest Missouri. Before the breach, the river had been 44.8 feet deep at Brownville. The river would have to rise to 46.5 feet before it reaches Cooper, which is owned by the Nebraska Public Power District, but the plant would be shut down as a precaution if the river reached 45.5 feet. NPPD spokesman Mark Becker said the plant continues to operate at full capacity. The weather service predicted that the river at Brownville will rise over the weekend back to a similar level to earlier this week. The Army Corps of Engineers predicts it will rise another 3 to 5 inches on top of that by early next week.