Mercredi

Coralville reservoir dam.
Iowa City~Reservoir goes over Coralville spillway~Flood waters went over the spillway at the Coralville Reservoir about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night.
As the water goes over, the uncontrolled waters from the reservoir will reach the Burlington Street bridge in Iowa City about three hours later.
~USGS Gage Readings:
Iowa River below Coralville damn
~Excellent Flood Map Mash'ups here.

Corps loses Coralville Lake control
Water pours over the emergency spillway Tuesday, June 10, 2008 near Iowa City.
According to the Quixotic Corps of Engineers the water officially topped the spillway at 8:30 p.m.
Photo: Brian Ray/The Gazette

~UPDATE -- 5:40 PM~The Iowa River Power Dam Pedestrian Bridge, connecting Iowa City and Coralville and a popular flooding sightseeing spot, is closed now. That is among the latest news as the Iowa City-Coralville area goes through the long wait -- which could be a week at least now -- before water hits a record level on the Iowa River and produces a 500-year flood.
This article's link is continuously updated.

Editilla gotta cry~Everyone please get out their prayer cards and get on the horn to da'sweet Goddess, Mother of Mary or whoever the Hell we can call from the Valley of the Shadow of Death and send them to Iowa right now...and Indiana, and Illinois, and Wisconsin, and Ohio, and Missouri.
Tad-ya-ta: Om Bhai-sha-jye Bhai-sha-jye Maha Bhai-sha-jye Ra-ja Sa-mud-ga-te Sva-ha
~Om Ah Hum Hri Om Mani Padme Hum

Des Moines ~Water now flowing from Saylorville spillway
~USGS Guage Readings:
Des Moines River near Saylorville, IA
About 566 million gallons of water are pouring out of the reservoir each hour now into the Des Moines River. That number is expected to jump to more than a billion gallons of water per hour as the flood gate is lowered.

UPDATE~Saylorville surge seen producing more water, less damage downtown~Water had flown completely over the emergency spillway at Saylorville Dam and over the road by 4 a.m Wednesday. Photo: Eric Rowley/The Register
UPDATE~Downtown Des Moines residents should be ready to go~the situation is worse than was announced at the press conference this morning, official says. There was water in the street on both the east and west sides of the river downtown as manholes begin to lift off the street. The Saylorville Lake reservoir also is expected to peak a bit higher than before at 891.26 feet. The top of the spillway is 884 feet.

WAVCIS~Wave-Current-Surge
Information System for Coastal Louisiana
Note~ Gentle'rillas can use these interactive sites together fo'da sights: zoom WAVICS sat'view out and "curser" the Map up the Mississippi River to Indiana and Illinois and then zoom'click back down to follow the smaller rivers like the Ohio and the Iowa.
This is active data. I use the USGS maps to get oriented to the states and their flood gauges due to the lack of boundries of the sat'view. I also look up State Maps.
USGS~Flood Stage Levels current 'real-time' guage readings

Wisconsin checks other dams for flood damage
This photo courtesy Joseph Leute, shows an aerial of flooding in Lake Delton, Wisc. on Monday June 9, 2008. A Corps of Engineers-built embankment forming the side of the man-made Lake Delton failed pouring water out into the nearby Wisconsin River.
The 245-acre X 5 foot deep lake emptied, sweeping away three homes and tearing apart two others.

An aerial view shows homes flooded near Lawrenceville, Ill., after a Corps of Engineers-built levee break along the Wabash River Tuesday, June 10, 2008, in eastern Illinois near the Indiana border. (AP Photo/Mark Carlson)

This aerial photo from video released by Brent Perrott, Lawrence Co. Emergency Management Agency, shows a Corps of Engineers-built levee break along the Embarras River near the Indiana line in southern Illinois Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
Officials say levee breaks in the area are forcing some evacuations, and the flooded area so far is mostly farmland and prairie.
(AP Photo/courtesy Brent Perrott, Lawrence Co. Emergency Management Agency)

Viola, Wisconsin is seen mostly underwater Monday June 9, 2008.
A Corps of Engineers-built earthen dam along a man-made lake gave way Monday, unleashing a powerful current that ripped several homes off their foundations and down the Wisconsin River.
(AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, Steve Apps)

Editilla truly humbly asks...
HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH YET, AMERICA?
The Quixotic Corps' Malfeasant Engineering
is obviously NOT merely a New Orleans problem--as we have been telling the nation over the past 3 years.
Please do not allow the Corps public relations spokespeople to spin these catastrophic levee failures as simply the result of Mother Nature, as they tried to do in yesterday's Wired Magazine and New Orleans' own Gambit weekly.
(Duly dusted by yer ever arrant, vigilant Editilla)
The Corps employs highly paid Public Relations firms, like the ASCE, to place these articles in media across the country. Flood control failures do not happen over night, but take decades of hard myopia, dedicated corruption and damn'near Sisyphean mismanagement to fuck up this badly across the entire country!
The Corps of Engineers knows their levees will fail. Hence, they have deployed an army of public relations spokes'hos to do the advance work, set-up the Marks.
The Corps structures across the entire country were built by the same people who built our levees in New Orleans, and the same people who stuffed newspaper in those levees to repair them after their historic failure in August of 2005. The same people whose levee "repairs" are leaking all over our city now.
Is it not high time to replace these criminally insane incompetent bastards?
Please demand the 8/29 Commission!

Source Asks "What is the Real Water Policy of the United States?"~Georianne Nienaber
~This journalist Gets It! Take that, Axman!
Editilla ssschin'schillas~Oh! Blessed Fortuna!
As Gentle'rillas are well aware from climbing this Ladder, Goddess takes care of Fools and Arrant Troubadours. But, such a nod as this is more than even poor Ignacius could have hoped on the long road'ho, the back hand path to écrasez l'infâme!
Now it's started, the game is a'foot...
(and in my mouf!:)...T'anks Grrrrrrl! Purple Prose?
I prefer to think of these Tilla'Rants as more like bloody graffiti in the spirit of NOLA Rising on the face of the Gray Ghost of the Great Nothing.
That'jus me'doh'in though, Whoa SHIIINOLA!

The Great Unknown Known ~Citizen K
Editilla O'rillappreciates-
T'anks K, fo'da hat tip here. But really, you lay far too nicely on my deep fondness and affection fo'da Don'Punky Rummy Rumesfield.
Gentle'rillas may well figure how I just love the man like a chigger! We go way back, Punky'n'Editilla.
Why I remember the first time I spotted His Hinnyess That Dashin Ass'Assin when he tried to brake-line at the gates of Hell. Oh yeah...Rummy was going to get there first with front row tickets for The Dark Lord --and just screw everybody else who'd been waiting in there for ever...or at least since 8/29/05
...but, Who In Hell Is Counting Time ???
His point is well taken though: the failure of the Corps-built levee system and subsequent Federal flooding of New Orleans ain't just about New Orleans and the bridge failure in Minnesota ain't just about a bunch of betrayed Lutherans...and the failure of all infrastructure across the country ain't just about the gullibility of the American Tax'Payer. All of this has one thing in common. Would Gentle'rillas care to venture a guess? Wanna'go where yer Editilla fears not to tread?

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan

Welcome To The Ground War
~Chip Collins

Katrina Meets Kucinich
~David Swanson

Article of Impeachment--Katrina
~First Draft
~Editilla just can't get enough of this real'food. Thanks Scout Prime! Hell, I could easily fill this Ladder with nothing but posts on this valiant and courageous legislation, but unfortunately the entire heart of the country is flooding right this very minute due to the failure of Corps of Engineering structures in at least 3 states. But then again...that is the point, eh?

FEMA: Buttheads, Bureaucrats or Just Plain Ol’ Beavis?~slabbed

"I had a group of Russians approach me two years ago through David Vitter" ~Also, TPM "discovers" Jindal's exorcism essay
~Your Right Hand Thief

and I’m not even Catholic
~Kiss My Gumbo

Chris Rose: In the dead of summer, New Orleans parties on

Avocado Mayonnaise
~Serious Eats
No, Avocado Mayonnaise is not the name of a whole'food new age punk rock band--though it sounds like almost as much fun, eh? And if that don't git'tcha then scoot over to their Ice Cream section.
New Yorkers...FORKIN-A!

CDS / Honickman First Book Prize Competition
~New Orleans Photo Alliance

Repair is the Dream of the Broken Thing~Nick Jaina

The Blues Legacy: ‘Lost & Found’ Series~Black Grooves
Link works now with my apologies to the Grooves. D'OH!

Local musicians launch free music education program

OZ Weather Alert~It is now time to mover your cars to the Neutral Ground~Only in New Orleans...Jeez Louie!