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Theres flooding. We strongly recommend if theres flooding to contact the local Sheriffs Office let them know where the flooding has occurred and ask our Sheriffs Office to see if there is a safe way to get to the destination. The heavy rains forced people in freeport in Winneshiek County to evacuate this morning. But tonight, authorities are lettg roads covered in water. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers talked with homeowners about whats next. in some areas like right here where im standing the water is still up to my knees. Several people here in this freeport neighborhood were out here just a few hours ago going into their houses trying to recover what belongings they could, and trying to clean up. Nats darcie hurst spent much of her evening shoveling water and dirt. ....
Overall, plan on a very muggy day with dew points well into the 70s. Actual air temperatures should warm to the low 80s in all locations. Plan on a chance of scattered storms, prarily after 10am. Unfortunately, these will be so poorly organized, its tough to time out favored areas of dry or wet weather this afternoon and the chance of storms will have to be maintained until the sun goes down. Like yesterday, any storms that form will be extremely slowmoving, leading to areas of excess rainfall in isolated spots. The same boundary is still in our area tomorrow, but will move south tomorrow night. From wednesday through saturday, cooler High Pressure builds in as a tropical system impacts the southeast united states. Today scattered t ght s. Low 67 tomorrow ae of storms. Partly sunny. Nd nw 510. High 80 tom. Night storms early, then partly cloudy. Wind w 510. Low 62tha people in elkader are making progress after devastating flooding ....
Hike. Gunderson health plans will see a 20 jump. Medica plans to raise rates 19 and avera will rise 5 . All those hikes are for individual plans. About 55,000 people enrolled for plans on iowas exchange this year. Also, at this hour, the red cross is trying to bump up the blood supply calling the level of donations critically low from the summer months when many regular donors are often away. At the cedar rapids marriott. Brea, now that school is back in, red cross leaders are looking to get back to a normal level. The American Red Cross warns blood supplies in iowa and across the nation are critically low in summer months. Thats because many people are on vacation and dont take the time to donate. It is holding a blood drive today at the cedar rapids marriott until 1 00 pm. You can also donate anytime by contacting your local American Red Cross on sunday afternoon, c ....
High pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as 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 florida next week, which may lead to our weh ttern stalling out r at lst 3 4 days. Stay tun tonight partly cloudy. Patchy g posble. Wind light nw low 56 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. An oted shower is poie ine evening high 76 tom. Night scattered understorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 anks kaj. Communitsn northeast iowa rain. Anywhere from 4 ....
Stack these to 27 feet, right now they are at 25 feet, but earlier today, they found out that the river is supposed to rise to a little here than that, so they are working to get more bags put together and really protect this downtown area. Were on south main street right now and several businesses have moved out. They continue to move out to try to protect their properties from these rising waters. But were told theyre supposed to have several power grids go out some time tonight here, so theyre trying to make sure people are just moved out of the area well continue to monitor this situation in elkader and the surrounding towns and work to bring you those updates both on air and online at kcrg. Com. In elkader, sarah mccarthy, kcrgtv9 news. Meteorologist britley ritz joins us now. Britley, whats the level of the turkey river right now in elkader . And how high could it get . The turkey river at elkader is sitting at 15. 2 feet. Currently minor flooding forecast. The river is expected ....