One Year Later: July 22 Flood Effects Can Still Be Felt
Meteorologists explain the perfect storm that led to massive new control efforts.
One year ago today, July 22, 2010, at just after 5 p.m., the skies blackened, huge swirling clouds rolled over the north metro Milwaukee area, and torrential rain began to pour down. The water came so fast that even areas of high ground were swamped. That water simply could not run off nearly as fast as it was coming down. The flood that followed will remain a powerful memory for the thousands whose homes and businesses were swamped and for those who were caught out in it, trapped in cars for hours on inundated freeways and city streets. The flood also wrought permanent changes in Milwaukee and its suburbs. Soon afterward, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, under fire from the whole north half of its service area, announced a 10…
Nate
7:51 pm on Friday, July 22, 2011
Specifically, Menomonee Falls' ignorance of proper drainage has come to fruition, as constant subdivision development put stress on yards down the road. The term "100 year flood" is their only excuse they throw at you. I've had 300 years of floods in that case and I don't live by a river. Dig bigger ditches and quit using soda straws for culverts. more ›