The Iowa Flood Center celebrated its 10th Anniversary with a day-long celebration Thursday. The Center has done a detailed flood map for 26 Iowa communities. The Flood Center also has created a way for people to access real-time flood information online.

It was on Friday, June 13, 2008 when floodwaters rose past the banks of the Iowa River, creating the fifth-most costly national disaster in U.S. history at the time, with FEMA estimating the total damage at $750 million. Eleven years later, both Iowa City and the university are still only now beginning to fully recover from the devastation.

Eleven years ago, Iowa faced an epic flood. Today, we find ourselves in an eerily similar situation.

Extreme weather, including flooding and tornados, has been topping the news in Iowa and the Midwest. But the number of extreme weather events in the region may be even more numerous than we're able to recall.

The Great Flood of 1993, one of the worst in American history, left entire towns ravaged. With heavy spring rains and saturated soil, some fear a repeat.

The floodwaters have largely receded in Davenport, weeks after the Mississippi River crested at its highest level on record and flooded parts of downtown. The city is known for its progressive approach to flooding, giving the river more room to ebb and flow while other communities build walls. But the recent flooding is testing this philosophy of resilience.

The floods in March showed us that mother nature can be unpredictable. A lot of people believe they’re the result of poor levees but in our investigation, we found out that it's much more than that.

With the help of my colleagues at IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering and the Iowa Flood Center (both at the University of Iowa), I created this timeline with information on recent extreme weather events.

The Mississippi River at Davenport crested at a new record height last week after a flood protection barrier broke near the city's downtown, inundating several blocks with murky and contaminated floodwater.

Larry Weber discusses flooding issues in Iowa.