Ames Flooding: Iowa City Suffering From Record Floods (VIDEO)

Ames, Iowa, population 56,000, is experiencing severe flooding, the worst in years after three consecutive nights of storms.

The city in Central Iowa is expected to break records set in 1993, and its Skunk River and Squaw Creek are on pace to crest at all-time highs today.

Complications from the flooding are piling up. The city was forced to cut its main water supply after a water main broke underwater, leaving its residents without drinking water.

Hundreds have been forced from their homes and Iowa State's Hilton Coliseum has been buried several feet underwater, per the Des Moines Register.

WATCH videos of the Ames flooding below:

Comments

[FerrellGummitt]

10:03 AM on 08/12/2010

Is this Bush's Fault as well?

[Franklin1776]

11:01 PM on 08/11/2010

As much as I do not like the cyclones, I wish all of the victims of the flooding in Ames the best. We dealt with some terrible flooding here in Iowa City a couple years back. These 100 and 500 year floods keep showing up every ten years or so... wonder what that's about?

[Boobuzuela]

10:39 PM on 08/11/2010

There are no finer people in america than the people of Iowa.

they are truly the "salt of the earth." Every single one I have ever met would give you the shirt off his or her back.

New York may have Broadway, and California its beaches and movie stars but Iowa has people, GOOD people.

They will pull together like nobody's business to help one another and land on their feet like they ALWAYS do. Self sufficiency, and helping others is just what they do there.

Even so, based on the innumerable kindnesses extended to ME in Iowa during numerous RAGBRAI bicycle rides, if there is ANYTHING I can do to help out ANY Iowan affected by this flooding....do not hesitate to contact me. Google gasbuggy mushroom and contact the author of that article. -- me.

[Franklin1776]

10:57 PM on 08/11/2010

Awww thanks!

[Franklin1776]

10:57 PM on 08/11/2010

...and on a cold January night we all had this crazy idea that black man might just be President one day.

[thegeniusboy05]

10:24 PM on 08/11/2010

This title is somewhat misleading, only because of the convention of capitalizing titles. Ames and Iowa City are two very distinct places.

[Franklin1776]

10:58 PM on 08/11/2010

They most certainly are! Clones suck!

[DSOTM]

09:58 PM on 08/11/2010

I can't wait to hear what Pat Robertson has to say about the people of Ames.

[Franklin1776]

10:59 PM on 08/11/2010

...that the clones suck? Didn't Pat Robertson finish 2nd in the caucuses here one year?

[MetrointheWoods]

08:00 PM on 08/11/2010

For years, we were told in Louisiana that our levee system was a pride of the World. We had both protection from Hurricanes, and we had tamed the course of the Mississippi and its tributaries. Then, one day about five years ago, we found out we were told a lie.

A flood is unlike any other disaster. It's not like a fire, an earthquake, volcano, etc. What separates a flood is that the culprit is totally innocuous: it's water. We need it for our survival. Can never move far enough away to be without it.

I have nothing but the utmost care and sympathy for the people of Iowa and downriver. They need support right now and I hope anyone who can offer it, will do so.

Our country needs to stop looking overseas for people to help: because there are plenty of people here that need our support.