Most of California’s Yosemite Valley will close to visitors this week, and Iowa’s third-largest city was bracing for possible major flooding in part because of warmer weather and snowmelt, officials said.
In Davenport, Iowa, the city of around 100,000 on the Mississippi River installed barriers. Some roads along the riverfront were closed due to high water Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the city’s Department of Public Works announced a detour to River Drive, and urged residents to be careful as river levels rise., with warnings along stretches of the Mississippi River from North Dakota to parts of Missouri. In California’s Central Valley, California Gov. Gavin Newsom toured damage caused by existing floods in Kings and Tulare counties Tuesday, and he pledged that the state would monitor the situation and be there to help.
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