Location where they need help. The city is asking that you do where close closed toe shoes and bring a shovel if you can. The city is now asking that all cars parked downtown be removed by 7 00 tomorrow morning. The city needs to get flood Protection Equipment into the area. River levels are still a threat to the cedar rapids area. Reporter its not around parts of our Northern County and all the water is rushing downstream. Many rivers and streams in eastern iowa are at or about latestage. We will stay there for several more days. I wanted to show you some of the crest on the cedar river because this is one of the reversed that will take a hard hit it does involve a lot of metro areas. In cedar falls we will have a crest of 100 and 1b. That is a little over i thought short of the alltime record going from 26. 4 feet. Finally downstream, as we get towards ben 10 the crest are expected on sunday and they should be close to 23. 1 feet. Eventually the water will russian to cedar rapids and
Several major roads including highway 50 seven and 218 are expected to be impacted by the rising water. Crews also loaded cars from and cedar rapids. Sandbagging efforts continue in all of those communities. Communities. Now joining the fight, communities along the maquoketa and wapsipinicon rivers. Heavy rains last night sent more water out of their banks but, so far, its expected to stay well the levels seen in 2008. 2008. And in cedar rapids, the ongoing effort to get everything and everyone out of the way continues before next weeks crest. Well have much more on all of this in just a moment. But first, weve already seen some changes to the flood forecast since last nights rai. Rain. For more we turn to weatherfirst chief meteorologist terry swails who kicks off tonights flood right now, the National Guard is deploying to the flood zones. Zones. Governor branstad today mobilized units to assist in the sandbagging and recovery ef. Efforts. The governor also issued a state disaster li
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