Rivers naturally rise and fall, a natural cycle that is necessary to sustain the variety of life in its ecosystem. Some plants need high water to do well, while others won’t grow until some of the river dries out. Different kinds of wildlife rely on these plants for their diet and well-being. Periods of
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.
Places along the Mississippi from Quad Cities south to northern Missouri experienced near-record flood levels in the summer of 2008.
We’ve had some crazy weather this spring – nasty thunderstorms, tornadoes, epic floods - could the locusts be far behind? In St. Louis our streak of unseasonably cool days came to an abrupt end around Memorial Day, as we were forced into summer mode with a blast of heat and humidity. Further north, warm weather has been
