"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:LdI2k.144767$TT4.59744@attbi_s22:

denny - currently grounded

You've got the winds, we've got the water.

The Army Corps of Engineers is releasing 16K cubic feet per second
from the Coralville Dam (ten miles upstream from Iowa City), which has
caused a fair amount of flooding. They're planning to up that to 20K
cfps, which will cause widespread flooding. FEMA is already on the
ground here, helping with evacuations.

Even with that release, they're predicting the dam will be topped on
Tuesday -- something that's only happened once before, in the
disastrous floods of '93. Once it goes over the spillway, they've
lost control of the river. Things could get very ugly here after
that -- and they're predicting rain every day this week...

Awwww. Well, look at the bright side, that must surely mean there's no
global warming eh?




Bertie