Talk:Iowa flood of 2008

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Nota Bene: This is essentially a work article, splitting off the Iowa section from the article June 2008 Midwest floods. Editors are encouraged to add to this article, at the same time leaving behind in the mother article a good synopsis of what transpires here. Please do not leave templates suggesting deletion until the end of June 2008, which is about the extent of the Iowa emergency. (01:57, June 14, 2008 Ace Telephone)

Organization

The floods will be organized by catchments. In the mother article I have already started so.--Ace Telephone (talk) 02:08, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Naming

Why is "Great" in the name of this article? No media outlets are calling it that. 147.136.249.101 (talk) 04:13, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's a back formation from the Great Flood of 1993. Great floods are great floods, and yes, this really is one.--Ace Telephone (talk) 06:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I got up this morhing and the Iowa City Press-Citizen has as its online headline, 'Great Flood of '08'. www.press-citizen.com 06-15-08 --Sephiroth9611 (talk) 15:08, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One media outlet calling it that (and do you have a direct link?) does not require we do so. I've renamed it to Iowa flood of 2008. Superm401 - Talk 15:02, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Iowa Flood of 2008 is sufficient. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.220.50.9 (talk) 08:18, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Iowa City Press-Citizen has been using the reference on its home page since last weekend. --Sephiroth9611 (talk) 16:56, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

June 17?

June 17 isn't here yet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.83.112.91 (talk) 11:45, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Iowa City Timeline

I was working on collating news articles myself, but Press-Citizen has this up that would be ideal for mapping out the sequence of events along the Iowa River: Flood of 2008 timeline. --Sephiroth9611 (talk) 15:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing event

The Great Iowa flood of 2008 began before the June article, and is in fact a continuing 8 to 12 week event. Consider all that floodwaters flowing into the Mississippi, and the floodwaters it's experiencing. We expect that there will be a separate article on the Mississippi event.

And by the way, this heavily structured, footnote-dripping and rather long article would be difficult to merge. Only an experienced editor willing to put up with serious cry-to-admin abuse is competent to do it (the editor will have to click and inspect every footnote). This article is gonna get longer. --Ace Telephone (talk) 02:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt there could be any move to merge. In and of itself, the Iowa event is pretty massive with both state and national repercussions. --Sephiroth9611 (talk) 16:58, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No deaths

There has been one death during the flood, but it's not flood related —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.217.212.109 (talk) 14:21, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good news, compared to the 13 deaths during the March flooding:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031801780.html

At Least 13 Die in Midwest Flooding

Worst May Be Still to Come as Rivers Crest in Coming Days

By Kari Lydersen

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, March 20, 2008; Page A03

ChrisWinter (talk) 00:47, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Law Enforcement

During the height of the flood (June 12-20) the Cedar Rapids Police Department had relocated to the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. Their dispatches were handled by the nearby Marion Police Dept.

Source (except dates, which are estimates): KCRG-TV 9, Cedar Rapids Gazette. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.213.112.56 (talk) 16:09, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Level of damage in Waterloo?

I think that Waterloo/Cedar Falls had considerable damage that was then overshadowed by Cedar Rapids...the biggest inconvenience was NOT that the bridges were closed. C'mon. Rawbery79 (talk) 03:12, 16 January 2009 (UTC)rawbery79[reply]

The dollars on the page needs to be changed. The USD is not showing up. Areas affected is redundant as too many areas to list were affected. Also Cedar Rapids had more damage as more businesses and industries were affected. It's not relative, it's amount wise.

Recent updates?

It looks as though this article hasn't received an update in quite some time, apart from minor updates and removal of vandalism. It's been two years since this event, surely there have been developments in aftermath/recovery since then? There are several statements that say "as of July 2008" or "as of December 2008." I don't presume to update this myself, but perhaps the original authors could give it a glance? The article also makes numerous references to "Gulfport, Illinois" which should be corrected to "Gulf Port, Illinois" and linked to the corresponding article. Klopek007 (talk) 03:17, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Link Hi-Jacked in "Recovery"

In the "Recovery" section, near the end of this article, the link highlighted as "Iowa Flood Stories" takes you to a junk pharmeceuticals site. This needs to be removed. The real link is there also; the "Save Iowa" site does have an on-going blog for people's stories. 98.194.239.177 (talk) 18:09, 16 May 2011 (UTC)dinotrader, Tanya Gerber[reply]

PS, The "Save Iowa" site also provides recent updates. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.194.239.177 (talk) 18:11, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting us know. I've removed that sentence; we generally don't link to external websites in the prose of an article anyway. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 18:20, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Fluff, you're awesome... and thanks also for the education, I'll try that sandwch someday ;) 98.194.239.177 (talk) 18:26, 19 May 2011 (UTC)dinotrader Tanya[reply]