The Wisconsin River flows into the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien WI. Therefore high water there is of great interest to us folks downstream. I took these pictures going over the Wisconsin River at US Highway 61 last week.
It is still up very high.
And flooded in the backwaters:
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Today it dawned on me, that if Lake Delton drained into the Wisconsin River, then the Wisconsin drains into the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, so it most have flowed past us at some point on its way to New Orleans. Probably already down there.
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The water is just as high today as it was at the earlier crest. It just keeps raining. I saw a video of some flooding up in Wisconsin, Lake Delton drained and cut a new path to the Wisconsin River, houses fell into the lake, and that all drains into the Mississippi north of here. [...]
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