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I mean, typically the mississippi is basically hundreds of yards that way, and now we re standing sort of on the new banks of the river here in davenport the crazy thing is, as you point out, we are days away from peak levels here in davenport forecasters say this is likely tocrest on monday, so we still have about four days to go, and we just talked to business owners in town who are blocks away from us, and they say they absolutely expect the forecast to kind of come to fruition in that way they said forecasters usually nail how high this is supposed to get, and they re really worried that this could be one of the worst in davenport s history. that being said, as you point out, some communities already in really dire situations, especially those low-lying ones that are closer to the river we ve talked to people in pleasant valley, iowa, that s about 20 minutes from where we are. a lot of their homes already flooded. a lot of people having to evacuate by boat, and that is where the lo