The Leader Telegram has been "flooded" with news stories across the front page concerning the record high levels of the Chippewa River. As mentioned yesterday in class, media coverage of a natural hazard depends on several factors including proximity, loss of lives, and of prominence and interest to the reader. Certainly, the large amounts of rain that have hit Eau Claire in the past few days has been worhty of reporting. Not only are numbers significant, but there was no news coverage leading up to the event so news reporters have been going biserk. Rain is not uncommon in an area like Wisconsin, but the amount of rain that has been unleashed has been so powerful in such a short amount of time, that the Chippewa River River could and will most likely cause significant flooding this weekend.
Additionally, Eau Claire County highway workers were called in yesterday to clean up a mudslide on the U.S. 53. The work temporarily caused a several-mile-long traffic backup, and yet another worry for Eau Claire.
http://www.leadertelegram.com/
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mpx&gage=eclw3&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
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