{"id":1874,"date":"2010-07-26T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2010-07-26T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T14:27:05","slug":"better-never-than-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2010\/07\/26\/better-never-than-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Never than Late . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Historically speaking, we\u2019re two weeks past due for a flood around here.<\/p>\n

Most of our major Mississippi floods have crested in April,* but the 1993 Flood—the one that knocked the 1965 \u201cFlood of the Century\u201d off its pedestal**—was a late bloomer, waiting until July 9 to crest.\u00a0 Those who know about these things blamed the wettest June in 120 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at that.<\/p>\n

Among our resources are climatological data reports from the Environmental Data Service and the National Climatic Data Center.\u00a0 According to these reports, the state of Iowa had 13.21 inches of rain in June of 1993.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you aren\u2019t able to put your hand out of a Davenport window to check for yourself, it\u2019s been a pretty damp summer this, year, too.<\/p>\n

According to the Climatology Bureau of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, June gave northeast Iowa about 8.66 inches of rain—that\u2019s almost 4 inches more that the average.\u00a0 And in July, the Quad-Cities saw 3.56 inches in the first ten days.\u00a0 That\u2019s only half an inch less than the average for the month.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bureau reassured us that there was 20% more evaporation than usual last month because of the heat we\u2019ve all been enjoying so much.\u00a0 But that lucky break seems to have ended its usefulness.<\/p>\n

The Mississippi was at 11.6 feet Saturday at Lock and Dan 15—flood stage is at 15 feet.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible that we might have to revise our ideas about when our flood season ends.<\/p>\n

But rest assured, our city isn\u2019t ignoring the signs.<\/p>\n

Because those who do not learn from history are doomed to get their feet wet.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n

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*Though heavy rains on June 16, 1990 caused \u00a0Duck Creek<\/a> to flash flood, you couldn\u2019t call that a \u2018crest\u2019.\u00a0 It was a devastating blitzkrieg—following by another, two weeks later.<\/p>\n

**By 1.8\u201d, which shows you how seriously we take our river measurements around here.<\/p>\n

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