{"id":5505,"date":"2014-07-10T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2014-07-10T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:56:16","slug":"a-flood-of-images-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2014\/07\/10\/a-flood-of-images-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flood of Images: July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may have posted\u00a0\u00a0The Flood of 1870: Bridging the gap between memories and measurements<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>a bit too soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apparently,\u00a0instead of celebrating no floods in 2014, we should have celebrated no spring<\/em> floods.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0summer<\/em> flood of 2014 crested less than a week ago, on July 4th. \u00a0Its final measurement was\u00a020.94 feet, making it the new #6 in the Top 10 Recorded Floods of the Mississippi River at Lock and Dam 15. The 20.71 crest of April 22, 2011 will drop to #7.<\/p>\n

Below are flood photos taken during the crest. We attempted to get pictures in locations near those taken for A Flood of Images: April 2013<\/em> <\/a>to allow for comparison—though, due to the higher flood stage and trees with\u00a0inconvenient leaves, we\u00a0occasionally\u00a0had to move to nearby locations.<\/p>\n

Looking west from the Arsenal Bridge,\u00a0River Drive once again looks like a real river:\"017.River<\/a><\/p>\n

The \u00a0Hesco barrier at corner of Iowa St. and River Drive:\"018.Corner<\/a><\/p>\n

Another view of the Hesco barrier, taken on Iowa Street, facing River Drive near Bechtel Park:\"038\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dillon Fountain on the corner of Main Street and River Drive:\"077\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The bench against the Figge Art Museum and a hint of fire hydrant\u00a0on the\u00a0corner of Main St. and River Drive:\"075\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Levee Inn – Locally famous for the flood crest markings\u00a0recorded on the corners of the building:\"122\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The LeClaire\u00a0Park and Bandshell—please note that this is our first flood photo that includes\u00a0the new\u00a0Ferris Wheel\u00a0at\u00a0Modern Woodmen Park.\u00a0\"107\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Modern Woodmen Park, walkway in place.\u00a0Baseball\u00a0will go on!<\/p>\n

\"149\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The corner of Warren and 2nd Streets:<\/p>\n

\"176\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Myrtle Street was barricaded at River Drive and the\u00a0skate park was closed.<\/p>\n

\"242\"<\/a><\/p>\n

River Drive looking east from Sturdevant Street at Davenport City Cemetery:<\/p>\n

\"202\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This flood even reached several of the headstones at City Cemetery:<\/p>\n

\"215\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One last image of our 2014 Fourth of July crest is courtesy of Davenport Public Works:<\/p>\n

\"027.Closeup<\/a><\/p>\n

As always, we hope this is the last flood for a while.\u00a0We love the Mississippi River. We love it best inside its own banks!<\/p>\n

(post and photos by Amy D<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We may have posted\u00a0\u00a0The Flood of 1870: Bridging the gap between memories and measurements\u00a0a bit too soon. Apparently,\u00a0instead of celebrating no floods in 2014, we should have celebrated no spring floods. The\u00a0summer flood of 2014 crested less than a week … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1182,1016,243,360,1185,1015,1183,1184,367,1012,774,1013,89,1014,202,287],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history","tag-2014-flood","tag-bandshell","tag-city-cemetery","tag-davenport-city-cemetery","tag-davenport-public-works","tag-dillon-fountain","tag-ferris-wheel","tag-figge-art-museum","tag-floods","tag-hesco-barrier","tag-leclaire-park","tag-levee-inn","tag-mississippi-river","tag-modern-woodmen-park","tag-weather","tag-weather-records"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-1qN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}