High water along the Mississippi (as well as periods of very low water) is part of the river’s natural cycle and a necessary one to sustain the variety of life in its ecosystem and to replenish ground water. In most years, river levels peak in spring with runoff from melting snow and early spring rains, [...]
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Flood Update
It’s been a busy summer for natural disasters in the Upper Miss – flash floods, near record crests along the Miss herself from Davenport to Winfield, freak thunderstorms that darkened much of the Quad Cities and flung a trampoline into a helpless Prius, and cascading technology failures that stranded a certain travel writer in St. [...]
Mississippi River Flooding 2008
Places along the Mississippi from Quad Cities south to northern Missouri experienced near-record flood levels in the summer of 2008.
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