Global flood 10 Mississippi River Sep 21 Earth Pulse report w screen shots Rock Valley 47-year record- Ongoing series at Heating Planet Blog

The Mississippi River is about to hit levels not seen in nearly three decades — and the clock is ticking right now. Five official Flood Warnings already issued along the Missouri-Illinois border through September 28th, and Lock and Dam 25 at Winfield is pre-positioning 200 tons of sand, 12,000 sandbags, and 10,000 square feet of plastic sheeting as we speak. That's not a precaution — that's an emergency response. We're tracking the full upstream picture: major flooding on the English River at Kalona, Iowa, a near-record crest on the Wabash River in Indiana, unprecedented flooding across northwest Iowa communities like Rock Valley and Rock Rapids, and a Florida river hitting a 47-year flood record caused entirely by an invasive aquatic weed — zero rain involved. Here's what makes this forecast genuinely dangerous — the current official Mississippi crest numbers don't include Thursday's incoming storm system. Any additional rainfall hits ground that is already 100% saturated, meaning every drop goes straight into the rivers with zero absorption. Worst case scenario pushes those crests two to three feet above current forecasts.

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Mississippi Flood Emergency | Lock & Dam 25 Sandbagging & 5 Active Warnings Sep 21, 2026 Earth Pulse channel on YT from USA since 2011

Best case, we dodge it. We don't know yet — and that uncertainty is exactly why you need daily updates on this. Key lesson: a dry Wednesday means nothing when Thursday's rain is still coming and the ground can't absorb a single drop more. Lag time is the silent killer in major river flood events.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiQzr5NYJzM

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I post screen shots because, like printed words in transcripts, digital pictures last forever whereas videos can be taken down / disappeared.

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Global flooding series videos & images ongoing now at Heating Planet Blog

I am covering floods happening all over the planet right now. It was going to be three or four posts but thereare more and more incidents.  So this is now an ongoing series https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2026/09/global-flooding-blog-series-heating.html

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