Tag: iowa river
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February 01, 2008 05:26 PM EST --
Joseph H, a friend of mine questioned if there was actually any coral in Coralville Iowa. The answer is: there has been fossilized coral found. This article tells you a little more about my . . .
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January 06, 2008 04:39 PM EST --
I took a walk along the Iowa River about 6 blocks from my home yesterday. The sun had just come out and the river was in various stages of thawing. Most of the scenery was beautiful, but I . . .
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June 11, 2008 11:33 AM EDT --
The flooding situation in my area is getting worse. No, not where I live but along the Iowa River. Last night at 8:30 the water started going over the spillway at the Corps of Engineers reservoir.
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June 13, 2008 04:23 PM EDT --
Flood Journal Midday 6/13/08
An update of what is happening with the flooding in my area. Yesterday flood waters had barely left the banks of the Iowa River in Coralville. This morning I awoke to an . . .
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June 11, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Iowa River And Power Company
I often walk to the Iowa River and cross the fairly new walking and bike bridge. Usually it is a beautiful walk and even with the flood waters there is still something . . .
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June 11, 2008 02:23 PM EDT --
It is now a dangerous situation in my area as the Corps of Engineers Reservoir is full and water is now coursing over the spillway and racing downstream uncontrolled. This is only the . . .
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March 25, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
The flooding of 2008 is still on everyone's mind in my area and with still so much flood recovery to be done one wonders if there could be another year like the last one. Some flood mitigation . . .
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July 18, 2008 01:54 AM EDT --
On Friday, June 13, the Cedar River rose to an unprecedented 31.12 feet in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
To put that figure in perspective, a river level of 12 feet is considered flood stage. At 16 feet, . . .
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May 30, 2007 05:46 PM EDT --
Al Capone Drank Here: The Rebirth of Templeton RyeMay 24, 2007
Photo Copyright 2007
By Kurt Michael Friese
It was the Jazz Age, a time of speakeasies, gangsters and bathtub whiskey. Railroad cars crossed . . .
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June 19, 2008 05:48 PM EDT --
Gaia has been hard on us prairie-dwellers lately. A dear friend who's the director of the area's largest CSA lost her 102-year-old barn to a storm last weekend. Swelled with recent rains, the . . .
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May 18, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world"
-JRR Tolkien
Volume XII, Issue 5 - All the News That's Fit to Eat - Since 1996 . . .
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February 09, 2008 06:58 PM EST --
Writing about food is like dancing about architecture
-Calvin Trillin
Volume XIII, Issue 2 - All the News That's Fit to Eat - Since 1996
February, . . .
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December 08, 2008 02:16 PM EST --
I dispute that it's always more expensive. I think you have to shop strategically and be prepared to cook.
-Michael Pollan
Volume XIV, Issue 3 - All the . . .
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March 01, 2007 11:39 PM EST --
Iowa was the 29th state in the USA; it became a state on December 28, 1846.
State Abbreviation - IA
State Capital - Des Moines
Largest City - Des Moines
Area - 56,276 square miles [Iowa is the 26th . . .
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