Owned Grocery Store. In 2008 it flooded, but this time around theyve prepared for it. 20 59 42 anything that needed refrigeration had to go because if the water gets bad they turn the power off nats people building the wall and built the wall up in hopes the water wont reach the town this time. People in elgin also spent their day building walls. 20 43 22 neighbors helping beighbors community really comes together its pretty amazing. 20 35 44 people were preparing for flooding not this extreme but of course it has this flooding is different than past floods in elgin. 29 38 54 we didnt have any substantial rainfall here, here we are watching a flood in full sunshine the communities all rallying together to prepare. 20 38 07 i can tell you in elgin when the call goes out the calvary come out 20 58 54 it was just a wonderful deal to have so many people just showing up asking if they could help but for now the people in elgin and elkador will wait. Outro residents who live here expect the
Plan on a steady increase in clouds today and that will limit our high temperatures into the mid 70s as well. This morning, a few isolated showers may also be found in far southern iowa before the showers to our south fizzle out. This front will be a key to our weather later tonight though as storms should quickly become likely. It continues to look like many, if not all Football Games should go dry tonight, but rain should quickly push in right afterwards. This rain should amount to a quarter to a half inch with isolated amounts ovr storms will be possible in the afternoon hours, with much of the activity likely waning or moving east by the evening. Sunday looks mainly dry with only isolated storms possible. Have a great weekend today mostly cloudy. Isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 tonight scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 tomorrow showers and thunderstorms likely. Wind sw 15. High 77 tom. Ght isolated. Hitting some towns along the turkey r
90, refused to move, and this time she faced a close call. Despite that, kcrg tv nines Katie Wiedemann reports the womans still not going anywhere. Rachel engelhardt refuses to move out of her flood prone house. She says, why would she . Everything she loves is right here. It was over the microwave, so it would have been that high. In june 2008, flood water nearly destroyed her home. Upper end of town and i said no way. Fema funding allowed the city to purchase several flood damaged homes. But rachel refused the offer. She has one very big reason to stay put. I open and lock it, everyday. Thats my job. I clean the church and i clean the rectory. Englehardt doesnt drive, so she wants to stay within walking distance of st. Josephs catholic church. Its more important to me to get to my church job than it is to get out of here, thats they need her too. Shes a fixture of the entire community. If you spent anytime in elkader, you know rachel and you know what a big heart she has. On thursday
The state is there to provide assistance and help them. The spirit has been great. To see the way people come together, neighbors and friends, and the communities that are working to clean up and help neighbors. Communities along the turkey river are feeling optimistic as water levels are starting to receive. Water levels cressida 22 1 2 feet Weather Service predicted that the waters with crest at 27 feet. Although flood levels the officials the fire department, the city officials, the city council all the people making decisions were very very well prepared they knew exactly what they wanted to do. Do. At a press Conference Today the mayor of elkader thanked Community Volunteers for their hard work. He also encouraged people to turn their attention to the city of garber where flood levels . Are evening. Its not just people having to avoid the floodwaters. An estimated 150thousand rainbow and brook trout were evacuated this week. The fish are from the big spring hatchery which sits nea
Well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near floraext week, whhmay l our weather pattern stalling tr3 4 days. Sy tuned today rtly su wind nw 510. High 78 night partly cloudy. Patchy g possible. Wind ght nw low 5 olated shower is possible in the ening. Windne 510. Gh 76 tom. Nh attered understorms developing. Wind 5l clermont and elgin this morning with a forecasted crest still hours away. We talked with lisa roberts, the fayette river in clermont will crest 6 feet over the flood stage. Roberts says the turkey river will crest at 22 feet around 1030 this morning. At 1130 la