Iowa unveiled new state flood maps today, eight flooding that hit cedar rapids and other parts of eastern iowa in 2008. Those floods devastated areas that people didnt people who experienced flooding then know if theyre still in the path of danger. The sixyear effort to create and update maps. Started in 2010. The Program Costs 15 Million Dollars. And the Us Department of housing and urban development funded most of it. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman joins us from along the cedar river in cedar rapids. Dave, just how extensive is the flood mapping that is finally wrapped up . Beth, the mapping doesnt just cover major the Iowa Flood Center studied every single stream that drains more than one square mile of territory and mapped out the flooding potential. The Iowa Flood Center may consider the mapping officially complete now. But the city of cedar rapids used the data this fall to fight off the second highest crest ever on the cedar rapids. The information compiled by the flood center pred
Temperatures into the 30s. In fact, theres very little chance of seeing sun through the next week. Our next area of low pressure arrives this weekend with sunday still being the day to watch for some snow, primarily in the morning. Slick roads are possible sunday morning with this first minor accumulation of the season. Moving into next week, the monstrously overhypedsocialmedia induced storm will primarily just drop temperatures and increase wind speeds for the second half of next week. No record cold. No record snow. While snow will probably accompany the frontal passage, determining the minor amounts will be the primary focus next week. Enjoy your weekend todaycloudy. Wind 1 tennessee continue to comb through burned down buildings this morning. Officials now confirm 11 people have died in the wildfire. Dianne gallagher has more. Its been several days since fires burning in the Great Smoky Mountains in eastern tennessee engulfed towns in sevier county, butthe number of li increase. O