***Official 2025 Weather Thread***
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Was just inside Iowa south of Kiester when a guys tornado alarm went off on his phone. Right after heavy rain.
What’s all this northern rain doing for river levels downstream in the next few days? And more tomorrow it seems.
Cedar River is getting pretty high.
Predicting moderate flood levels by Tuesday.
Rain can stop now. It’s getting old.
Damn farmers are never happy.
I knew a farmer who constantly complained about the conditions--too much rain, too little rain, late frost in the spring, too hot, too cold, etc. Then one year everything was perfect: ideal planting conditions, timely rains, his highest yields ever-- seemed nothing to complain about. When it was brought to his attention his reply was "Yeah, but it sure took a lot out of the soil"
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Since 4:10 this afternoon. 30 east of Ames.
7" since Friday. Coming to a river near you.
We had almost an inch from the first storm after noon, and just got hit with another downpour and winds, here in N. Ames. Was coming down in sheets of rain for about 15 minutes, flooding in the back yard, but the tile back there has already cleared out the rain.
Yep Just where I am. An inch then another 4 tenths. Blowing sideways for awhile. Just a few small branches down.
In my entire life I've never had a sump pump run in any house I've ever lived in. I don't know how I've been so lucky, but I'm not complaining.
When we sold my previous house, the inspector flagged the sump pump as not working. It had definitely never ran the entire time we lived there. I'd look in the pit during a heavy rain and it was always bone dry. Water table must be low at your house.
I like it a little dry.
Like my wife says. 1 inch isn’t much but get it 10 days straight and it gets to be old.
Do you have French drains? As long as I clean out the gutters and French drains, mine will stay bone dry. The second one is blocked, the Nile flows into the sub pump
