Photo by: Mirza Muhamedagic

I took this picture a few months ago outside of a bar I work at. This was after a very short period of intense rain.

Response:

The picture above was taken a few months ago in West Glenn. West Glenn is a “New Urban Development” project in West Des Moines, Iowa. The idea behind New Urbanism is to create a mini-city with in a city, so basically you can get all your goods in the area you live in. This seems to be a great idea, and in most cases it is, at least in my opinion, but there are also some issues. There are usually a lot of businesses in the area, and even more housing, so if the area floods you have a large amount of damage that affects a large amount of people.So it's probably smart to not build these areas in flood plains!!

West Glenn is in the Iowa flood plain, so if there is a flood the area would most likely see flood damage. What worries me is that the picture I took was just after a few hours of rain. What would happen after a long period of rain? Would we have “Lake West Glenn", or would everything be okay?