Parts of Iowa are experiencing significant flooding this week. Since we have nothing close to look at, we took a road trip tonight to check out a dam. A lot of other people had the same idea. There must not have been anything good on TV tonight.
Here is the view as we were leaving the parking lot, walking toward the spillway. Followed by a close-up of the rushing water.
Here is Cool Daddy-O pointing out the height of the flood waters in 1993. Cool Daddy-O is 6 feet tall. Something tells me, we won't be back to this spot for awhile. They're going to greatly increase the outflow of the dam in the next 2 days. Once the water from Des Moines /Saylorville Dam gets to Lake Red Rock, things could change here.
The sign on the right draws attention to the possibility that the sidewalk ahead can be slippery when wet due to algae growth. Children should be closely supervised. Don't worry, Cool Daddy-O is out of view to the left about 2 feet. Also, they didn't cross the line between the black top and concrete until I was walking beside them. We stayed on the dry areas only. Thus, we were safe!-
We hope we can go back in a couple days and see how things will change...that's if we can still get to this spot. If not, perhaps, we can get a view from a higher point.
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That's a cool road trip. Your girls will be able to say they remember the flood of '08.
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