2008. Now, its expected to happen again, just eight years after the catastrophic flood. Flood. There is a lot of information to get to but we want to start with these very important points. Major flooding is now forecast along the cedar from waterloo, to vinton, palo and cedar rapids. Rapids. Right now, the river is . Not . Expected to reach levels seen in 2008. 2008. But, there could still be in 2008 by there could be major homes and businesses. We will have more on the preparations in the corridor and the flooding happening up stream. We begin with meteorologist terry swails and he has the latest river information. This situation has been brewing for several weeks. We have seen round after round of heavy rain uppercrust northern iowa. Last night with rains up to 10 and floyd county this has gotten out of hand. The cedar river will be a big issue starting its way north and going south. Here in cedar rapids we are expecting the crest at 24. 1 feet and i would come sometime late monday night. Again we want to stress that models are involved in the forecast. They are based on great thought and if that rainfall goes up or down the crest could be altered. That is something we need to watch for the next few days. It will be dependent o tonight and on sunday. When the river reaches 24 feet here in cedar rapids, you can see what happens. This is the main channel of the river. The darker blue at 24 feet and extends into much of downtown cedar rapids and the surrounding area and the residential areas that went underwater in 2008 may once again have some these issues hoping the reins state light up to our northwest. Here are some of the river levels expecting around cedar falls and waterloo. Major crest in both of these areas. They have gone down in cedar falls and waterloo. Theyre still major flooding anticipated. As you get towards preventing you will see a crest at 22. 1 feet and that would be on sunday afternoon or evening. Finally when we get to cedar rapids we are anticipating a crest of 24 feet and flood stages 12 foot. Its two time would be the secondlargest crest ever recorded in cedar rapids. We still have Flash Flood Watches out across art Northern Tier counties. These have been extended. Now with the additional rain they will be out until 1 00 friday afternoon and our radars are starting to show more thunderstorms starting to develop and these will be tracking across our Northern Counties. That means more heavy rain and flash flooding and river flooding from the water river basins. We will be back to track those storms and let you know what you can expect for the next several days in your weather first forecast. For the latest alerts and updates we encourage you to check out the cbs 2 weather app. You can download it to the iphone and android stores. Also head over to fox28iowa. Com for uptodate information about whether aroundtheclock. Tamara linn county leaders will hold a meeting to act Emergency Managers before rice. Today leaders laid out their plans to protect the community. Fox28 News Reporter joe husinga is telling him how to do that. Preparation is moving full speed ahead. It started early this morning with the citys utilities. Our water distribution system, sanatorium sewer system will be under some stress top of it. Homeowners in potential flood areas should cover any basement drains to prevent water backups. The water can have force or pressure with it. We encourage use of weight hot bricks or other heavy objects on top of that. City workers are sandbagging city infrastructure. Those efforts will be stepped up. We are looking at getting materials and equipment staged we are hoping we can start sandbagging efforts with the public tamara. Public safety officials urge everyone to listen to evacuation warnings and avoid floodwaters. You dont know whats happened to the ground or infrastructure. If you get water in your basement do not go into the preparing now. 04;35;29;16 move your things to a safe place move it out of there, take every time as much time as you can ahead of time to get out of there and stay out of harms way. 9covering the corridor in cedar rapids, joe huisinga, because of the flooding threat, newbo city market in cedar rapids will be closed tomorrow, saturday and sunday. Bohemia city market will be closed tomorrow saturday and sunday. Just like two years ago the market will host sandbagging efforts in that new bohemian district. Volunteers began that effort tonight and they will resume that work tomorrow at 9 am. If you would like to help you can go to new beau newbo city market on the side of you are asked to bring your own shovels. One of the oldest neighborhoods in cedar rapids is no stranger to flooding. Melanie moore spent the day in Czech Village and continues flood 2016 Team Coverage. Cedar rapids official share projections and preparations for possible flooding. The Czech Village is trying to figure out how they will respond. For us we are going to prioritize what equipment and crucial for our business to reopen. Her business went 9 feet underwater in 2008. That pretty much is above the barrel. We will plan for that its going to be 24 foot plus that that will put us 3 to 4 feet into the borough. Others have not been through this before. I panicked. I thought we just got the store set up and starting to ke we have to pack it backup. The hope is that all this preparation will not be needed after all. That would be the best case scenario. I would like to see none of the business is disrupted. Stewart says flooding could be devastating to the area and no needs to go through what happened in 2008 again. Were those who have been through this they say at least it has left them better covering the corridor in cedar rapids melanie moore, fox28 news. Coming up cedar rapids mayor ron colbert will join us live to talk about the citys operation. Here what he has to say about the city faces again coming up in a few minutes here on fox 28 news at 9. City Officials Say has of what happened in 2008 they are better prepare to handle what may come up. Kevin barry is live along the rive how high the water could get. Right now were looking at 8 to 10 feet. This is where we checked the gauge over by the first avenue bridge. If you add 14 to that to 24 the projected crest in the next few days you would have to climb all the way up the hill and the city tells me you would reach this bipap or go over. Its all relative to how high it would get in different places. The problem is on this side of is not complete. Some of it is here but the plans call for more to protect downtown. The city says there is a good side to this. On the other side of the river where the amphitheater is Properties Like that that they have purchased and invested in, will help at least eased some of the suffering much more so that it did back in 2008. Those acquisitions allow many of the areas the river to breathe measures that we have taken and we talked about a number of those will put us in a much better position to face this kind of event. Because of the role the amphitheater will play over the next few days potentially bringing in some water and keeping it from getting into downtown on the eastern side of the western side of the river all the events have been canceled at the amphitheater for now. Events at the u. S. Cellular on at this hour. You should check in with each specific venue to see if those will remain scheduled throughout the rest of the weekend. Covering the corridor cedar rapids im kevin barry. You may ask why the city does not have new flood defenses. It took several years for city leaders to finalize a plan with federal and state agencies pay for defenses. Initial work is underway on the project to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The completion is several years away. Joni ernst urge the army corps of engineers speeding up that work. Area . Again facing flood waters, dora . Businesses like need pizza werent around to feel the devastation of the 2008 flood. But they know all about it. Co owner bob wagner says they he says theyve even heard the stories of what was left behind 8 years ago. And theyre still hoping for the best. But realistically, theyve already begun moving inventory out to prepare for what could come. He says at this time, theyre doing what they can to make sure its business as usual. Water is finicky, it can do tons of damage it can get in anywhere so we just try to proactive and safeguard as much we can. Everything else is up in the air. Dont worry too much because whatever will happen will happe happen. Some businesses like reds are deciding to discount inventory to sell in preparation for what could happen. Need pizza says they will continue moving things out, but theyre just going to wait it out and see what happens. Dora miller, fox 28 news. Further upstream in vinton right now crews are installing hesco rising cedar river. River. Vintons mayor tells fox barriers to hold back the theater river. This is the fourth time that had to deploy the barriers. They want to have not been used much to hold back this much water. Hes confident the community will come together when they need each other the most. Its always great to see but it is something we expect in each other. We do the best that we can. In smalltown iowa if the normal thing. They will continue stopping sand for the barricades. Earlier tonight governor. Branstad issued new disaster declarations because of the flooding. The order will help flood victims in bremer, chickasaw and four counties. 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Those are sacrifices . Fox28 morning live. Its a topic of National Priority for the department of defense. The big way veterans get help readjusting to civilian life. Friday on fox 28. As the corridor . Prepares for major floodin as the corridor prepares for major flooding its already happening in northeast iowa. In the town of greene a massive undertaking to hold back the Shell Rock River. As fox28 Stephanie Johnson reports volunteers did all they could to try to hold the water. Reporter heavy rains caused flooding throughout the town of greene. Putting the Shell Rock River 10 34;32 yeah im a little nervous about whether well have enough gas to get through this but we got gas yesterday and hopefully it will hold owner cindy jenson has been through this before. 10;34;59 my store was the only store that didnt get flooded. Im lucky that i say up high enough but the whole town was under water. 10;35;11 sigh im hoping that its not going to get as bad as 2008 gas station cashier rachel green watched as flood waters rose 10 36 18 around the pool area theres two shrub trees and it has come up from their to up around the apple tree since county Emergency Management have asked people to stay out management had asked people to stay out of town and advise residents to take precaution. A resident wanted to stick it out. I have two animals at home that i have to take care of and have to make sure the rest of my belongings dont get ruined. Its terrible. I dont even know 2008. From what i hear they say it might. Volunteers built a 5 foot wall out of sandbags to block waters on destroying businesses on main street. Meteorologist terry swails is here. Its the rain amount upstream that we are worried about or more rain . Depends on where you are. Upstream is where the water is flooding because the rain came down 10 to 12 inches in four hours time. Its a complicated scenario. It all comes together in the outcome of what happens. Tonight additional rain is on the radar and this will play a role in what happens in eastern iowa as we go through the older we get, the more we measure quality of life by the numbers. So when washington politicians like rod blum keep voting to raise Social Securitys retirement age to 70, its time to pay attention. For years, hes pressed to privatize Social Security, risking seniors guaranteed benefits on the stock market. And blum even supports cutting Social Security benefits. Thats a plan for our seniors that doesnt add up for iowa. Woman huh. Congressman blum is a tea party member. Weve shut down the government before. Woman blum voted to cut Social Security. Weve got to raise the retirement age. Woman blum would raise the retirement age to 70. Then theres monica vernon. A hardworking mom. Started a Small Business while raising three daughters. Shell fight for equal pay for equal work. Monica vernon gets it. Vernon im monica vernon, and i approve this message. Back in the Weather Center with Rebecca Copeland and we have been watching the situation for several weeks. It building to whats been happening in the next several rains. Weve seen the scenario and seen the heavy rain. It had a lot of moisture in the atmosphere and now it has built up to an event that could be serious for many areas and has been in the city of greene where we saw a lot of rain. We will share people our doppler estimates of how much rain fell in floyd, butler and Chickasaw County last night. These our doppler estimates usually this is reliable. We are getting estimates that were greater than 13 inches not too far away from greene. In the city of greene we have had a total confirm of 10. 4 inches of rain and we had another in southern florida county of 11. 25. These are verifying. We had heavy rain that is now going to continue downstream. We had heavy rain in northern parts of iowa. You could see around decorah there has been over 50 inches of rain this year at this point in the year a typical amount would be about 28. 22 inches. And this makes the wettest year on record. Thats right. In 1993 we had 48. 47 inches and that was the previous record. This is a new record for annual rainfall and it is not the end we are just in september. We have three more months ago. That gives you an idea how wet and soggy its been in the Northern Counties and all that moisture has set the stage for the flooding. We still have additional rain to go to tonight and because of that here are flooding issues. We have flood warnings that extend north of highway 20 and that is because of all the saturated ground including where decorah and allamakee will now be going downstream into the cedar. Take a look at the river levels that we are expecting on the cedar river. That will have major flooding all up and down its course and you can see cedar falls we are expecting a crest of 97 and have feet. Thats down from 2 feet from earlier. That is still major flooding and waterloo the crest is anticipated at 22 feet. That is also down a little bit. Invented we are holding to t that would be sometime later on sunday and in cedar rapids we are anticipating 24. 1 feet. Based on additional rainfall tonight how much falls or does it will make a difference as to where that crest and that. That is in flux. It could go up or go down a little bit. We will know more once we get to tonight. The bottom line is when you get to 24 for crest in cedar rapids theres where the river typically and this is where it goes when you get to the 24 foot level. You can see that it spreads into downtown and the residential areas. Here is our Flash Flood Watch and that extends of southwestern wisconsin and into our viewing area. This has extended another 12 hours for the potential of more rainfall tonight. As we go its in the developing stages of the lowlevel jet starts to kick in. Were seeing locally heavy rain and the stunt thunder storms of the west extend along highway 20 back to manchester and what you get to waverly additional thunderstorms are shown there. These will extend into North Central iowa. As a start going into the south east there will be more heavy rain particularly in the northern and Central Counties flash flooding but the river flooding that we are expecting in eastern iowa. As we take a look at the predictor this is what our model is expecting. At 11 00 you can see the storms. By 1 00 they are rolling across the Northern Counties and at 3 am a are up there. At 5 am the rain is still coming down. The threat will be around until tomorrow morning and hopefully a break as we get into the late Morning Hours and some of the starts to lift the region. As far as rainfall goes, this is our latest model and it is showing around 3. 38 inches in the waterloo area. The Northern Counties could see what to 3 inch totals but some amounts could be higher than that. You can imagine what three or 4 inches into waterloo could mean. Tonight we will have scattered showers and some of those will be heavy particularly in the with lows in the 60s. For tomorrow warm and muggy and scattered storms early in the day and maybe a few in the afternoon. You can see warm front in the central part of our area. On saturday, we are looking for a break around here. On sunday another disturbance rolls through and that has a chance to produce more heavy rain and finally beyond that much cooler air comes into the midwest diminish those showers and were not expecting and issues to the middle of next week. Tonight more heavy storms are forming to the north. Thats not something we want to see. Keep us posted. We sure will. 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