Highway 30 Flooding Near Boone

This is Highway 30 looking east toward Boone and over the Des Moines River Valley on Wednesday, June 11. Many of you are probably familiar with this road, as it leads toward Ames. Normally you can't even see the river until you cross the bridge.
And this is the view from the other side, looking west toward Ogden. You'll notice old Highway 30 in the upper right-hand corner of the image. As of Thursday, the old highway was still open. It's about 2.5 miles across this valley and it looks like the river is now about a mile wide.
Bruce Stottrup, who sent us these images, also got a ground-level view of the river looking east. Flooding is much, much worse in other parts of the state, with rivers rising to unprecedented levels.

Update: The image below was taken Wednesday, June 18. looking east against toward Ames. Still plenty of standing water.