Quad Cities Brace For Flooding From Minnesota Snowmelt As Mississippi River Continues To Rise

Snowmelt in Minnesota has begun and in a matter of weeks towns along the Mississippi River will flood, many are preparing for the worst. The Quad Cities on the Illinois/Iowa border have been fighting these floods for years, the most recent was the destructive and epic deluge of 2019. The city of Davenport is preparing. FOX Weather's Robert Ray reports. #snowmelt #flooding #mississippiriver #weather #foxweather

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[karennadeau]

Mother nature says... "Why do you live here?" It beautiful earth doing her thing.

[albeerobert]

The problem is nobody wants to give rivers and waterways ANY SPACE.

[stevethein]

Imagine that, snow melt in the spring. Who would of thought.

[jaredpeterson]

Last year, they were talking about the mighty Miss, drying up.

[markpearson]

In 1965 The city Of Clinton Iowa just up river from Davenport. We put in a dike with a road on top along our river front We have been DRY now for 58 years !!

[mrlaw]

The Quad Cities, a bustling area in the 1940's and 1950's. Today, not so much. Look at this newscast...it is all about wet steps in a park.

[steveb]

Since this was published, parts of Minnesota have received 2 plus inches of rain.

[Moon]

God is just replenishing what was lost in the last few years. This is a good situation to have; verse a dry very low Mississippi river.

[joshhorgen]

It's worse in the Red River Valley. At least the Mississippi River is open and flows south.

[chrisyoung]

As a fellow Davenporter, we can only prepare as much as we can.

[nancysmith-baker]

Give me a brake, last year we had no Mississippi it was in a drought .
I know Michigan did get the snow they needed . Missouri been dry .
Hyp hyp hyp .

[stephensiewert]

Hate to add bad news but we're getting a lot of rain in Minnesota

[kelusitepitbeautifulwoman]

Wow. We barely got any snow this year. Yes it stormed but would melt within week or 2. Muddy winter here in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton.

[lovinglife]

Goodness thats alot of snow melt fast prayers to everyone in the path of this hope it's not gonna be really bad

[marklambert]

Maybe those guys.
But in southern Michigan we didn’t get squat this winter.
Most of it was like spring or autumn.

[stephenbrinckerhoff]

Just a few weeks ago the Mississippi River was a creek. My, how a little time changes things.

[sudandhali]

Do you feel you need Jesus? Go and bow down to Him with due respect.

[rogershepherd]

One good thing is we won’t have to listen to the complaints about climate change drought.

[bargdaffy]

The Mississippi River may be very wide but it is really quite shallow, Davenport is located on the banks of the Mississippi River. At this point the river has a maximum depth of around 30 to 40 feet (9.1 to 12.2 m) and is 2, 217 feet (676 m) wide where the Centennial Bridge crosses it.

[PInkW]

Al gore • no more snow.
CA MN record snowfall
Media • crickets