Governor Culver made his second
tour starting in CJ and going to Oakville. This time he brought
the Rebuild Iowa Commission with him.
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The first few photos have a
before and after theme. The last photos were taken over Oakville
on Sunday, August 10. I and Kirk Swanson made the flight in my
Powered Parachute. Thanks go to Ruger and and Tom Allworth for
letting me use their air strip.
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Spread the
word about this
recent posting of photos on August 15, 2009
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| Dave Wilson, Mayor Dan Wilson,
Gov. Culver and myself starting the flood Rebuild Iowa tour in CJ. |
Louisa
County Fair Grounds during flood at Columbus Jct. |
Louisa County Fair going on
after the flood. |
Columbus
Jct. businesses during flood. |
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| CJ Business
after flood |
East of CJ
during flood |
East of CJ during flood
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East of CJ after flood
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| Oakville
during flood |
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Oakville after
flood. If
you know where to look, you can see the Mayor's temporay trailor home
parked beside her house donated by a judge in Mississippi.
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Tri-Oak in
Oakville during Flood. |
Tri-Oak
after flood |
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My niece Jane and Doug Boyer
East of Oakville.
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Boyer's
after the flood |
Inside Boyer's after the
flood. Tearing out dry wall and rebuilding.
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Yield sign after water has gone
down 3 feet by Boyer's East of Oakville.
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| Same yield
sign after the flood |
Governor Culver and Ken Purdy in
Oakville during the Rebuild Iowa Commission tour. I and
Mayor Grooms lobbied the governor to sign Plan M to allow higher levees
to be rebuilt. |
Hwy 99
looking South in Oakville |
Hwy 99 after county filled in
the holes where the trees were across the
road in the previous picture.
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| Kirk Swanson
home. |
Kirk Swanon's home after the
flood. He was with me while we took this photo. I liked
Kirk's positive attitude. "I am rebuilding and have gone to SBA
for a loan".
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Amazing is all I can say.
Take a look at the house in the middle of the field in the
background. It belongs on the foundation next to the garage in
the foreground.
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Here is where that house belongs
in the previous photo on Hwy 99 South
of Oakville. Sorry, Lola Yotter.
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| Levee break West of Oakville on
IA River showing sand debris. The white horizontal feature in
middle of the photo is the temporary levee. |
Here is a closer look of the
temporary levee from the previous photo. |
Levee debris
on fields in the same area. |
Boyer's home
after the flood seen above. |
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| Finishing
the temporary levee
West of Oakville. |
Temporary
levee looking NE
toward Oakville. |
Temporary Levee looking
South
from H22 (K Road).
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Looking East on H22 (K Road) at
temporary levee built across the road. |
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After flood
skid steer rodeo at
the fair. County Fair Queen at the stick. |
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| Andy Carpenter had the fastest
time, but adding penalty time for missing the mark with these balls got
him second. |
I had to put this in.
Fellow supervisor Frank Jamison on the right and his wife Sandy
standing by my car as if supporting my campaign. Frank is a
Democrat and I am Republican. Thanks for supporting me Frank and
Sandy. |
East of
Oakville there was still water on Sunday, August 10,
2009. |
East of
Oakville,
homes that need
demolished.
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Pumping Station NE of Oakville
that will get this water out when the station becomes operational.
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Homes NE of
Oakville |
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Cleaning up confinement East of
Oakville
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East of Oakville and looking
South. Many fields have been replanted in beans. You can
see some dust in the background.
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Debris piled on county road to
get picked up.
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Culvert out SE of Oakville
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That's my foot.
Altimeter reads 700ft. on lower left of
display. Somewhere near Oakville.
This was a sunset over
Oakville. I couldn't resist ending with this for now.
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Self photo in the mirror of me
and Kirk Swanson in the rear near
Oakville.
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South of Oakville on Hwy 99 in
Des Moines County. They were a
little slower getting temporary roads in place. |
Temporary Levee West of
Oakville looking to the North with H22 (K
Road) going left and right in the foreground. |
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