The Mississippi River is coming up real fast. We called the utility company to turn off all power tonight. I think the river will come over the road, Canal Shore Drive, tonight. Parts of it are already underwater. Our cottage is the white one, and there is water under the front part. I took these [...]
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Just down river from us in Pool 15, between LeClaire and Bettendorf, sits a huge Alcoa plant. Formally, it is in Riverdale Iowa, but it is called the Davenport plant. It is adjacent to the River. The good folks there spotted a bald eage pair nesting on a remote part of their property, and they just [...]
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The toddlers on your list might like this: Battery powered, available at John Deere dealers this holiday season.
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A Q @ A on the I-80 bridge repairs: http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_f9c2d9dc-ae35-11de-99ae-001cc4c03286.html
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We have very many nice golf courses here in the Quad Cities both private and public. And they are very reasonably priced. The Tournament Players Club has a course at Deere Run in Silvis IL. Here is a link: http://www.tpc.com/deere_run/ The Rock River runs adjacent to the course. It flows into the Mississippi River just [...]
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The local paper had a slide show with historical pictures of the construction of Lock and Dam 15 in Rock Island IL during the 1930′s. It is double lock. http://www.qctimes.com/shared-content/gallery/?galleryid=9&gallery_page=0&album_page=0&albumid=936&mediaid=18393&imagenum=1
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But first it is getting cold again, but we are not having ice storms!
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You can see the Mississippi River starting to freeze over from our back deck yesterday.
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The annual bald eagle expo is this weekend in Rock Island: http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=420547
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The Army Corps has a local page on bald eagle watching. http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/missriver/bedweb/BEW2.htm
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