And though there are local, gravel roads flooded or otherwise closed, he said, “the people who live there know how to get around that.”

Eldon

The town’s most flooded street, Water Street, is still closed — but most residents there are staying in their homes.

On Monday, Eldon City Clerk Carrie Teninty said 61 people in that area have had their gas shut off by the utility company, but there has been no mandatory evacuation order there or anywhere else in town.

But parts of Eldon further from the Des Moines River are seeing flooding from the swollen Chippewa Creek. Because of that, the city clerk is not in her typical location downtown.

“City Hall has been temporarily moved to the bank,” she said from an office provided by Libertyville Savings Bank.

After the basement of Eldon City Hall flooded, officials decided to play it safe and shut off the electricity. They hope to have a direct phone number for residents soon. In the meantime, she is “trying” to conduct city business as normal.

“We’ve got some of West Walnut Street under water,” Teninty said about the road behind City Hall. “We have sandbags on Highway 16 [with] one lane open just as you come over Chippewa Creek.”

Getting to Floris may be tough, too. While the bridge to get to Floris is still open, she said the last news she had heard was that “you can only go so far. Then you have to turn around. You still have to go through Ottumwa to get to Floris.”

There’s been another change in town.

“Garbage [collection] has been canceled until further notice,” she said.

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