The Flood of 2022?

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It's raining here (Iowa) with an NWS area flood watch.  I drove over the Cedar River this past weekend and was surprised that it was already nearing flood stage.

Musing on the possibility of yet another natural disaster in Eastern Iowa this summer...

A few years back my sister-in-law's father's bar/restaurant got flooded.  I think it was mostly the basement of the building but I know the whole family was busy trying to get things cleaned up and back to functional.

My first father-in-law lost his home of decades when the dam at Delhi broke a few years back - his home was in Hopkinton so the damage was pretty darn extensive.

We were often flooded in when we lived in Dyersville.  Just down the hill from our house was a branch of the Maquoketa, it was the southern border of our property.  The only way out was going north onto gravel roads and circling around...not an easy task when your mode of transportation was a bicycle or your feet.  Somewhere I have photos of that flood...it was like being stranded on an island.

We have some screwy weather here in N Texas but I don't miss the flooding (we aren't near any water to speak of) and I DO NOT miss winter weather in general.