Des Moines, IA Flood of '08

I didn't really want to blog about the flood here we're having here in Iowa, but I guess it's happening and I can't really think of what to type about tonight and I just wanted to post something... Sorry in advance for not really having the best coverage but it's just going to be about me in this situation and not so much about how others are experiencing it. So as some may know I do live downtown Des Moines not too far away from the Des Moines River, Tuesday June 10, 2008 I took some laundry and brought it to my parents' house and just decided to spend the night there since all we heard this week on the news that flooding will occur. Wednesday June 11, 2008 I just went to work like a normal day and it was raining pretty hard, I got a call from a friend saying that Court Avenue's flooded and sent me some pictures via MMS on his phone...


Picture shot by Joseph Mireles
I guess I didn't know how to respond it wasn't far away from my apartment... It's not like I'm worried for my things because I live on the 3rd floor, our city would have to be in some major disaster to reach up there. I just made plans to check it out after work. When I got down there though Court Avenue was all dried up so we just checked out the river and see how high it was... here some pictures (Sorry for the quality of the pics they're shot on my mobile phone.)







I most likely will have more updates on this as it gets worse... oh and water levels are higher than these pictures today... So the water is rising. There's a great website someone I'm following on twitter giving updates on the flood we're having.

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Oh hey! Isn't that sad about Tim Russert? He always seems like such a nice, intelligent, professional man that doesn't ever seem to pick sides. NBC lost a good political news journalist.