Sandbagging at Hilton

[Cyclonepride]

Some Ames Residents Urged To Evacuate - Local News - Des Moines, IOWA - Des Moines - msnbc.com

"At 1:30 Wednesday morning, KCCI's Ames Bureau reporter Angie Hunt said work crews were busily sandbagging Hilton Coliseum, the basketball arena on the Iowa State University campus. She said the building is surrounded by water but she does not believe any water has gotten inside Hilton"

 

[C.John]

I`ve seen this movie before.

 

[bfross]

Did they sandbag Hilton in '93, or did the water rise too fast to do anything that time? Just wondering if they think they can keep the water out of Hilton to any seriously damaging heights like they saw in '93.

 

[tazclone]

Did they sandbag Hilton in '93, or did the water rise too fast to do anything that time? Just wondering if they think they can keep the water out of Hilton to any seriously damaging heights like they saw in '93.

Sandbagged. I worked at Veenker in 93'. I do not envy those guys. Flooding sucks

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Photos: Hilton Coliseum Flooding - Photos - KCCI Des Moines

 

[Wesley]

Photos: Hilton Coliseum Flooding - Photos - KCCI Des Moines

Time to build a real ring levee with a pumping station.

 

[DaddyMac]

Sandbagged. I worked at Veenker in 93'. I do not envy those guys. Flooding sucks

Yeah - they sandbagged but to little avail. Just too much. In the end, the lower bowl was a giant pool.

I remember Veenker in '93. Whatever that green is at the corner of Stang and 13th was whitewater. Wouldn't have envied you guys. I worked for Ames Parks and Rec - Brookside and River Valley were no joy either...

 

[Clonefan32]

Could this be a sign that Fred Hoiberg is truly the Messiah, ordering a flood to purge the Iowa State basketball world of the unfaithful and to wash away all of the 'bad mojo' in Hilton? Probably not.

 

[cyclone13]

Could this be a sign that Fred Hoiberg is truly the Messiah, ordering a flood to purge the Iowa State basketball world of the unfaithful and to wash away all of the 'bad mojo' in Hilton? Probably not.

If this is what the program needs to cleanse the bad mojo so the program can go to the big dance regularly, I think most fans will take it

 

[ChrisMWilliams]

CycloneFanatic - ChrisMWilliams's Album: Ames Flood 2010

 

[cyclonenum1]

Curious that we seem to be having 100 year floods every 15-20 years these days.

 

[CycloneErik]

Curious that we seem to be having 100 year floods every 15-20 years these days.

Centuries go faster and faster. It's just part of getting older.

 

[jbhtexas]

Yeah - they sandbagged but to little avail. Just too much. In the end, the lower bowl was a giant pool.

In the post mortem, I remember there being something about an improperly constructed driveway/ramp into the basement of Hilton. That driveway washed out and the water poured in. Up until then, the sandbags were supposedly holding...

 

[DaddyMac]

In the post mortem, I remember there being something about an improperly constructed driveway/ramp into the basement of Hilton. That driveway washed out and the water poured in. Up until then, the sandbags were supposedly holding...

On the east side, there's that loading ramp which acted as little more than a spillway. Just weren't going to win that battle.

 

[DaddyMac]

Curious that we seem to be having 100 year floods every 15-20 years these days.

We've probably had 5 in the past 15-20 years. I know we've had at least 3.

Edit: Then again, perhaps after our annual century floods in the 90's, they may have "re-evaluated" the criteria of 100 year flood? :wink:

 

[CloneIce]

Curious that we seem to be having 100 year floods every 15-20 years these days.

Every newly paved, impermeable area or house that is constructed that does not have stormwater detention associated with the development, every piece of land that is plowed and farmed that didn't use to be, all increases runoff.... and man have we been in a wet cycle lately as well.

 

[RayShimley]

I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but there was a "full-time Hilton employee" guarding the barricades on the upper walkways around Hilton who told us that the water was all the way in already. Waiting to see pictures..

 

[DaddyMac]

I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but there was a "full-time Hilton employee" guarding the barricades on the upper walkways around Hilton who told us that the water was all the way in already. Waiting to see pictures..

That'll be cheap to clean up.... :skeptical:

Volleyball opens in about 3 weeks as well. Started practice Monday I think. Yippie!

 

[clone52]

Every newly paved, impermeable area or house that is constructed that does not have stormwater detention associated with the development, every piece of land that is plowed and farmed that didn't use to be, all increases runoff.... and man have we been in a wet cycle lately as well.

Actually, a lot of the land that is farmed and plowed is also tiled which greatly helps flooding.

 

[majorcyfan]

We've probably had 5 in the past 15-20 years. I know we've had at least 3.

Maybe 25-30 yrs ago, a dam was proposed to be built between Story City and Ames as a watershed....At that time we had been through a drought and Ames water supply from the aquifer was thought to be running low. The dam was to insure reloading of the aquifer and provide recreation too as I recall.

I wish our senators had gotten it thru and built.