Iowa under floods - 20,000 flee!

The floods have hit the state of Iowa hard, forcing some 24,000 to lose their homes and another 20,000 to literally run for their lives. The floods are on account of unprecedented rain in the Iowa area which generally sees about a few inches of rain per year. But this time around, due to heavy rains coupled with thunderstorms, the Cedar river has risen far above the record mark it set the last time in 1929. It managed to reach a height of 32 feet, higher than the old mark by nearly 12 feet.

The Cedar river has flooded the drinking wells as well, thus limiting the amount of drinking water available to the citizens there. The wells that supply this water has been flooded and it will be quite some time before they are rendered usable again. In the meantime, with only one well still in use, it is time for the rationing to begin.

The forecast for the Cedar river area is not all that good with more rains being forecast. With most of the major levees having broken down, any more rain would only serve to make this far worse, transforming the Cedar river into raging flood waters. The fact is that despite disasters like Katrina and others, the infrastructure is ill-equipped to handle a massive exodus leave alone provide food,water and shelter for the remainder of the time needed. The question is that is Iowa planning to do in order to manage this crisis?

Hurricane Felix huffed and puffed!

With any hurricane comes the news of disasters and of people missing and Felix,true to form,has managed to do exactly that.with Felix,at least the people had a little time to batten down the doors.but in spite of all the precaution that was taken,the death toll has risen to about 40.but this is a category 5 storm,so such looses go with any hurricane in that category.but if the people had not been warned in advance what to expect from Felix,the toll would have been much higher!

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More storms in the Mid west!

If the recent floods in Utah were not enough the met dept has warned that More storms like the ones that were probably seen some 40 years ago are due to hit the mid west and soon at that.as a matter of fact as i am posting this,they may have already began.it only means more rain woes for the people there.what with having ones homes flooded to having the bare essentials run out and they probably will it is times like this that is supposed to make us think.so all i can say is that mu heart goes out to the resident of the flooded homes!good luck and i am sure that the sun will shine again and soon!