Spencer, IA: Rock Valley, IA: North Sioux, IA: Ocheyedan, IA: Sibley, IA: Ashton, IA: Adrian, IA: Flood of 2024

Spencer: (Satellite, it has a floodplain, but a levee broke.)

Rock Valley: (Satellite)

North Sioux: (Satellite)

South of Ocheyedan: (Satellite)

Sibley: (Satellite, Otter Creek became a river. Their wastewater plant was flooded.)

Ashton: (Satellite, another Otter Creek town. They lost their water supply.)

Adrian: (Satellite, Kanaranzi Creek became a river.)

These are some of the flood incidents of 2024.

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Spencer

4 of 48 photos posted by Sondra's Snapshots with the comment: "north side of Spencer."

John Harker shared with the comment: "Continue with diligent prayers for Spencer Iowa and NW Iowa, SW Minnesota and SE South Dakota."

Joyce E Iverson: Heavy rains? Rivers overflowing?🙏🙏🙏

John Harker: Joyce E Iverson Spencer Iowa sits on conjunction of Two rivers.The Little Sioux River.

And the Ocheyedan River.

And the levee that protects the city broke.

Water always seeks it's own level.

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Chris Barr Carroll: Our nephew had to be pulled out by boat. He lives in a third floor apartment.

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[The one bridge in town, US-71]

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2 of 35 photos posted by Dan Gottschalk with the comment: "Aerial views over Spencer of a life changing flood."

John Harker shared with the comment: "More from Spencer Iowa."

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And this is the south part of town.

2 of 3 photos posted by Jennifer Pernick with the comment: "A few photos from the air of Spencer. First is the Southpark Mall.  Photos Courtesy of a friend of ours, Michael."

John Harker shared with the comment:

Still just unbelievable 

Having lived in Spencer  for a while. 

As did mt parents 

And I still have many dear friends in Spencer Iowa

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Denise A. Loring: This is south grand Avenue. Top of pic is just south of the bridge and the river and going south is the south T, which is intersection of highway 18 and 71.

[This photo is a reminder that flood waters can contain gasolene as well as sewage.]

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Rock Valley

The area had 4 inches in an hour and a half on already saturated ground. [Chicago Tribune, Sun, Jun 23, 2024]

Chris VB via REUTERS via DesMoinesRegister

2 of 7 photos taken by Sioux County Sheriff in cbs2iowa gallery. Some towns are breaking the flood records that were set in 1993. By several feet. In a town of 4,400 people, 2000 properties have been impacted and hundreds of homes were destroyed. State leaders are still trying to determine the impact for farmers in the area.

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North Sioux

In addition to the collapsed railroad bridge and the flooding of the roundhouse museum, McCook Lake had some houses washed away and roads washed out by the rushing flood waters. Most home disasters at least leave the foundation and land. Some of these homes lost their land. And this would be why there is so much debris in flood waters.

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The cover photo for the above video:

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South of Ocheyedan

According to Google Maps, at least some of this area is a wildlife area. So this is a planned floodplain doing its job.

1 of 4 photos posted by James Glade
Took some drone pictures of the flooding south of town this afternoon. First two pictures are the Ocheyedan River at A22, looking southeast and northwest. Third picture is Tyler avenue, looking south, at the Thomas pits. The last one is the Ocheyedan pits, looking West, and a little north.

Mary Runia: Ocheyedan river & Taft Av. {curvy road} & A22

John Harker shared

I noticed that the town has a feed mill. I want to save this photo of a feed truck in action because I normally see them with their auger stored for transport.

Big Sarge, Aug 2018

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Sibley

Sibley, Iowa posted

5 of 25 photos posted by Ryan Van Wyk with the comment: "Sibley was hit hard last night from flooding  6/22/24 6:45 a.m pictures were taken."

John Harker shared with the comment: "More flooding from the Homeland. Sibley Iowa USA this time"

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[The little tiny hole under the bridge wasn't big enough, so the water made more holes. I hope the UP dispatcher had been notified so that he wouldn't cause a derailment like BNSF did.]

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The storms had winds as well as rain.

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Nyron Moore: At 4 AM all of those vehicles and the majority in the parking lot south of Papik's office were under water and there was water flowing over 2nd Ave from Papik to the lumber yard.

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Ashton

2 of 5 photos posted by Angie Johnson with the comment: "Ashton this morning."

Karen Akin: Devastation at its worst. No water until they’re able to fix the water main…

It will be days before they can get under the downtown bridge to find it.

John Harker shared with the comment: "More."

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The above photo was taken with a rather long telephoto lens.

Street View, Jul 2021

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[I could not figure out where this photo was taken.]

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Adrian

It is common to use a floodplain for a campground. I'm sure the theory is that it can be evacuated before it is inundated. So much for theory.

1 of 6 photos posted by Tami Rogers
Our town Adrian! 😭 and all around our area! Please pray for the rain to stop! For the livestock😭 We had a heck of a time getting to the farm to help out here!
John Harker shared

Pictures from the Homeland  of what " to much " rain looks like. 

We here in Western Minnesota and NE South Dakota have little to complain about. 

 I've requested  requested and am requesting more pictures  from the Ocheyedan and May City Iowa area.