Flood happened instead. That meant most of her term focused on recovering from disaster. 41 32we worked one on one with so many homeowners, Small Business people, the government didnt even have programs for as many Small Business people as were hit in this community, so we helped create that. After getting the people back on their feet, she started on the public buildings. 42 10the Beautiful Library we center, which is used all the time, and really newbo, the newbo city market, the amphitheater, those were all things i worked on. With septembers flood, vernon says she plans to fight in congress to get federal help to pay for permanent flood protection in cedar rapids and other towns that need it. Congress all over the country who have these kinds of issues, so i think its a good time for working together with others to get some really good things done. Working together is exatly why vernon says shes perfect for congress. Vernon, who switched from a republican to a democrat in 2009, say
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a nice monday well see plenty of sunshine today with highs well into the 50s. This is about average for this time of the year. Our next area of low pressure is not far off, ad should arrive late on tuesday into wednesday morning. Widespread rain is likely during this time period with a half inch to one inch possible for everyone. Temperatures will offer up quite a spread on wednesday with 60 degrees possible over southeast iowa, while northeast iowa barely gets to 50. In the wake of this system, our weather is fairly dry, but does offer up the typi temperatures that is common in iowa for late october. Today sunny. Wind ne 510. High 58 tonight increasing clouds. Wind e 510. Low 40 tomorrow showers developing in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tom. Night showers and a few thunderstorm democrat Monica Vernon is counting on her work as a City Council Member to unseat an incumbent for iowas first congressiona l district. As a part
Once e ain with highs in the upupr 50s were about 25 degrees above where we should be for this time of year. Into the evening hours the temperatures drop back down into the middle 30s, skies become partl cloudy, and winds will die down even more now out of the north at 5 5 10 mph. Throughout the rest of the weekend, high temperatures will continue to stay fairly warm, staying in the upper 40s. As for precipitation throughout the weekend, well stay dry. In fact, we dont see much in the way of any prpripitation throughout the upcoming week. Thanks britley. Windy weather created a mess on iowa highways and interstates. Some traffic trouble after wind knocked over several semi trucks. Many semidrivers say heavy loads helped keep them from blowing off the roads. One of them, curt vondrak. Hes had his truck blow over before, but that wasnt the case esterday. Was a aost a head wind, so it wasnt too bad, but you get a one semitruck driver did have a dangerous runin with the wind on interstate
Seasonable weather through next week. The pattern stays dry through next friday. Have a good night and a safe weekend. Tonight stly clear low 3440 winds sw 1020tomorrow mostly sunny, mild high 5359 winds w 515 back to you. Todays extremely windy conditions were an issue for a lot of people all across the state. It was especialal hard on semi drivers. Several trucks tipped over in linn county alone. Four semis were on their sides. Road exit on 380. Another was on highway 1 near ellison road. Two others were along highway 13 east of cedar rapids. Kcrgtv9brady smith has more on what was a dedeructive day not just for drivers, but some homeowners. Driving a semi through eastern afternoon proved challenging. Curt vondrak sayaypulling a heavier load helped him stay on the road. It was enough to hold me down, but i was following a couple of guys that were being blown all over the place. He saw one trailer overturned on highwhw 151. Having been through that situation before. I have been blown
The clippers, doc rivers is trying to get them to trap earlier. So valuable time didnt get wasted. The steal, the near turnover and the prigioni thr makes it a onepossession game and sve kerr goes back to his starters. They have a fouou to give. Theres the foul on curry with 4. 6 remaining. Now golden state will inbound again. Clippers do have a couple of timeouts remaining. Golden state has one timeout left. This game was all but over. They were talking about the next step for golden state. The clippers reserves, iguodala looking, looking. Inside. The ball i knocked away. Picked up by wilcox. Wilcox puts it up, wont go, and thth game ends how about that. And force overtime. Doc rivers could even smile about it. Golden state survives the final couple of minutes. Good job of active hands and denying the sketball. Keepep it awawa from curry, away from thompson. Force a turnover. Wilcox actually has a chance to send this gamento overtime. Had open shooters on the wing. He should have pass