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Iowa DUers - hope you're OK (Original Post) malaise May 2019 OP
it is bad in some spots, but not nearly as widespread as rurallib May 2019 #1
Stay safe malaise May 2019 #2

rurallib

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1. it is bad in some spots, but not nearly as widespread as
Sat May 4, 2019, 08:10 AM
May 2019

1993 or 2008. 2008 was probably the most widespread, '93 deeper but not by much. This seems to be the longest.

I am in Eastern Iowa, I hear the western area around Omaha is quite a bit worse.

We have 8 exits from my little town and 7 of them were blocked in 2008. No problems right now.

For those who are getting flooded right now of course it is really bad. Davenport is getting hit really bad but mostly in one area. For some reason, they have refused to put up a levee that would relieve at least some of that flooding. They have been refusing to do so for decades.

We went to Muscatine Thursday and it wasn't too bad, mostly covering parkland and some highways so far. Nowhere near what is was in 2008.

Our pattern in recent years have been to have very late Mays and early Junes. So the worst may be yet to come.

Feel very bad for those folks who are getting hit.

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