Iowa town to 'make our stand' against flooding (click title to entry for video - thank you)
...Army Corps of Engineers contractors are racing to add earth to a secondary levee system ringing Hamburg after the main levee, partially breached last week, punched open a 300-foot hole by Monday evening.
"We're just making preparations to make our stand. We're still dry and hoping it'll stay that way," Hamburg Fire Chief Dan Sturm said...
From NASA, American assets as work. It is a shame the legislature of the USA doesn't believe what it sees. Amazing.
Lewis and Clark Lake in the upper right corner. The Missouri River empties into that lake. This NASA photograph was May of 2005.
This is all very vital farmland. No one seems get their mind around it, ya know?
This is Lewis and Clark Lake in the upper right corner. The Missouri River empties into it. This satellite image was taken on June 11, 2011.
By early June 2011, the Missouri River (click here) had risen enough to submerge normally dry land, including some agricultural land, west of Lewis and Clark Lake. Acquired the by Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite, these images show part of the Missouri River along the South Dakota-Nebraska border. The top image, from June 5, 2011, shows flooded conditions. The bottom image, from May 19, 2005, shows more typical conditions....
There photos are important. They record the nation when it is normal and when it receiving extreme climate conditions. But, the photos are also important to the farmers. When their production falls because of these severe climate conditions they can apply FOR LOANS. Not subsidies, but, low interest loans so they can survive until next growing season.
(Reuters) - An elderly woman has drowned (click here) and two others were missing amid flooding in Montana that prompted the governor on Monday to declare a state of emergency.
Heavy rains and melting of record snowpacks in the mountains have caused rivers and streams across Montana to overflow, inundating a number of communities and closing sections of federal and state roadways.
"There is no area of the state that is really in a safe spot," said Monique Lay, spokeswoman for Montana's Disaster and Emergency Services Division....
This is all very vital farmland. No one seems get their mind around it, ya know?
This is Lewis and Clark Lake in the upper right corner. The Missouri River empties into it. This satellite image was taken on June 11, 2011.By early June 2011, the Missouri River (click here) had risen enough to submerge normally dry land, including some agricultural land, west of Lewis and Clark Lake. Acquired the by Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite, these images show part of the Missouri River along the South Dakota-Nebraska border. The top image, from June 5, 2011, shows flooded conditions. The bottom image, from May 19, 2005, shows more typical conditions....
There photos are important. They record the nation when it is normal and when it receiving extreme climate conditions. But, the photos are also important to the farmers. When their production falls because of these severe climate conditions they can apply FOR LOANS. Not subsidies, but, low interest loans so they can survive until next growing season.
(Reuters) - An elderly woman has drowned (click here) and two others were missing amid flooding in Montana that prompted the governor on Monday to declare a state of emergency.
Heavy rains and melting of record snowpacks in the mountains have caused rivers and streams across Montana to overflow, inundating a number of communities and closing sections of federal and state roadways.
"There is no area of the state that is really in a safe spot," said Monique Lay, spokeswoman for Montana's Disaster and Emergency Services Division....
