Bloomberg.com: U.S. Midwest Flooded as Mississippi, Cedar River Rise
The National Weather Service said a total of 200 locations are flooded, and issued warnings for Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma and Montana. The deluge in some Iowa towns reached an all-time high following days of heavy rainfall, according to the service. More rain and some storms are predicted today and tomorrow in the Midwest.
… The Mississippi River may continue to flood along points of a 200-mile stretch from Dubuque, Iowa, to Gregory Landing, Missouri, as tributaries swell the river, the National Weather Service said.
All of those people, my people, and their homes. This is awful, but I know they will come back from it. That’s not what worries me. This is:
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials will visit flooded areas of Wisconsin tomorrow, including Lake Delton, where climbing water broke through defenses and drained the lake, and Vernon County, where 113 roads are closed due to the floods. Areas of the state were flooded on June 8 and 9.
Governor Jim Doyle will seek a federal disaster declaration once the FEMA officials have made an assessment, the state’s Web site said.
Run! FEMA’s coming! As D says mockingly, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help … myself!”
Related: People Get Ready – “I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This!”
Nah, see, because I don’t know if you heard this part, but Lake Delton residents aren’t eligible for town flood insurance or FEMA assistance because, OOPS, the village did not submit its paperwork.
GLORIOUS.
Yeah, I’m stunned about the draining of Lake Delton. I’ve been to the Dells many times, camped there, know a few people in the area, and I know they’re world’s upside-down–and spinning now that FEMA is in the picture. A lake rushing away like that is mind boggling.
THEIR world’s upside-down, that is …
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Can’t he just call POTUS? This is a GOVERNOR OF A STATE. Has Bush totally insulated himself now with the bureaucracy he claimed he was going to cut through before election and after Katrina?
Um, your blog ate the quoted part of my comment…
“Governor Jim Doyle will seek a federal disaster declaration once the FEMA officials have made an assessment, the state’s Web site said.”