{"id":5073,"date":"2011-06-23T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2011-06-23T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:34:04","slug":"hamburg-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/hamburg-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"hamburg, iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5072\" title=\"hamburg_iowa\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hamburg_iowa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hamburg_iowa.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hamburg_iowa-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=51069\">False-color satellite imagery<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_Missouri_River_Floods\">flooding along the Missouri River<\/a> near Hamburg, Iowa:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;On June 19, 2011, the AHPS reported, the Missouri crested slightly above the record level set for Brownville [Nebraska, about 15 miles downstream from Hamburg] in 1993. The record level was 44.3 feet (13.5 meters), and on June 19, the river briefly reached 44.62 feet (13.60 meters) before receding slightly.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hamburg was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j1FRaGNFldcLx0DEPMv0ecbcoJdw?docId=bc6c6cc87630460b9ce29e4783627464\">threatened by a levee breach on June 5<\/a>, which prompted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j1FRaGNFldcLx0DEPMv0ecbcoJdw?docId=bc6c6cc87630460b9ce29e4783627464\">evacuation of approximately half <\/a>of the town&#8217;s twelve hundred residents, and the emergency construction of a secondary levee closer to the town.\u00a0 Fortunately &#8212; for the town of Hamburg, that is &#8212; another levee breach near Brownville <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whotv.com\/news\/who-story-hamburg-levee-06-19-2011,0,2398261.story\">has taken pressure off the secondary levee<\/a>, and as the waters <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2011\/06\/19\/water-falls-at-hamburg-levee\/\">have dropped a couple feet<\/a>, the town appears safe, at least for the time being.\u00a0 Flooding along the Missouri, though, is expected to continue throughout the summer.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5076\" title=\"hamburg_iowa-2\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hamburg_iowa-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"313\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Floodwaters cover a highway near Hamburg; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/swollen-missouri-river-floods-midwestern-towns\/2011\/06\/20\/AGYqR0dH_gallery.html#photo=7\">photograph by Charlie Neibergall\/AP<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[False-color satellite imagery of flooding along the Missouri River near Hamburg, Iowa: &#8220;On June 19, 2011, the AHPS reported, the Missouri crested slightly above the record level set for Brownville [Nebraska, about 15 miles downstream from Hamburg] in 1993. The record level was 44.3 feet (13.5 meters), and on June 19, the river briefly reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,594],"tags":[619],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-floods","tag-missouri-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}