Fourth Day of Grand Rapids Flooding Photos - 4/20/13

Watching Mayor Heartwell's press conference today, I learned that Riverside Park was closed to everyone - oops! He had driven by in the morning and saw people walking around it. Yeah, me too :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The river is still rising with another foot predicted. The flood walls downtown are holding but sandbags are appearing just in case. Plaza Tower has been evacuated because of a power outage due to water in the basement. JW and Amway are pumping water and fish from their basements. The water is up to the windows in this building - what will another foot do?

Up river the Grand River & the Thornapple are flooding Ada and Lowell and roads are closed. These two photos are from Ada today. Lowell has asked people to stay away...

The River is Rising and Hotels are Pumping ~ 4/19/13

Walking downtown today was a major accomplishment in itself with wind gusts estimated up to 50 mph. Several times I was almost blown completely down, saved by a lamp post grab. But the main story of the day is once again the Grand River.

The Amway Grand Hotel is sandbagging and pumping water from the hotel back into the Grand River.

 The RiverWalk now descends into Davy Jones Locker,

and the water is gaining on the jdek and the carousel.

 Crossing the bridge from the Public Museum, I met a JW Marriott employee who said they are  pumping water out of the lower level and have received about 20 fish on their loading dock. Hang on Grand Rapids...

  4-18-13 Posting - Grand Rapids is Flooding  

 4-17-13 Posting - Fish Ladder Flooded 

Black Cloud - Morrissey