What’s up with the weather around here? Nice one day, crap the next. If you don’t like the weather in Iowa, wait five minutes and it’ll change.

And what’s with all the thunderstorms? I’d like to go one week without any severe weather rolling through. At the moment, we’re currently under a Tornado Watch, but it looks like we’ll be hit with a minimum of a severe thunderstorm later tonight. And to make bad things worse, a couple inches of immediate rain are expected, with more trickling down the river later.

I hit up downtown Des Moines today at lunch, then again after work. I can’t really call it a flood, since all I saw was a really high river. There’s some pretty wicked flooding down by Gray’s Lake and Birdland Marina, but downtown is escaping fairly dry at this time. Quite a few people are saying the levees will hold, but should they fail for some reason, I suspect a good portion of Downtown will be under water. Only time will tell.