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Iowa’s I-29 Dragway Begins Mending From Historic Midwest Flood

By Andrew Wolf April 03, 2019Heavy rainfall events combined with rapid snowmelt throughout the Midwest are to blame for historic flooding in the Missouri River Basin in Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri and points upstream and downstream, from South Dakota to Saint Louis. The result has been more than an estimated $1 billion in damage, countless breached levees and dam systems, and a handful of flood-related deaths as entire towns and thousands of homes have been overwhelmed by rising waters.



Situated just off of I-5 in Pacific Junction, Iowa, a mere mile and a half from the Missouri River, sits the I-29 Dragway and the Raceway Park of the Midlands. Across the street is owner John Finch’s home. In early March, with the nearest levee, located just four miles away, pushed to its limits, Finch was given only hours notice of the impending floodwaters. With the help of family, staff, and friends, he scrambled to retrieve as many important documents and belongings as possible from his home and the raceway. As the levee gave way, a 6-inch high wall of water rushed across the lowlands between the Missouri River and I-29, forcing Finch and company to scramble from the property to higher ground.



His home and the the 200-acre facility were both were consumed by the quickly-rising floodwaters and within a week, the water had risen to an historic 16-feet above ground level, fully submerging the track and many of its structures, the tallest of which could be seen poking out from above the water in drone camera footage captured by 1320Video in a particularly eery scene.

Finch’s home — his wife’s dream home which had been dammed following the flood of 2011 that reached a mere 2-feet, a level Finch never imagined could be exceeded — was flooded up to the highest point of the roof. Finch was helpless, but he was also angry at politically-driven decisions regarding the nation’s dam and levee systems dating back decades for the damage — a highly divisive thought shared among the population all up and down the Missouri River.

“They called me about 9 o’clock in the morning on a Friday and said everyone is evacuating, it’s going to breach. I had about 12 hours notice and we were over there at the track for two or three hours before a wall of water came across the parking lot,” Finch explains.

Finch, an area businessman who purchased the track, formerly known as Mid-America Motorplex, from its original owners, estimates he lost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million at the track — that before he’s even been able to adequately survey the property, which is still under more than a foot of water. With a maximum of $250,000 covered under his flood insurance policy for his personal property, it’s a huge financial hit — nevermind being displaced from his home. There was no flood insurance on the racetrack.