We had eight straight days of rain. Today another five inches of
rain fell upon this area and upon a flooded Cedar Rapids. If anybody
has been in front of the tv set, you'd probaly seen it. Words cannot
describe this. It's the power of a raging river after two weekends of
10 inches of rain have made downtown Waterloo and now Cedar Rapids a
waterworld of sorts. The railroad bridge to Penford fell into the
river. Smoekoff's on the edge of third ave and first street had
furinture floating down the road. What makes this so unbelievable is
that the pillows on this couch was still intact. Most of downtown is
under water and three bridges the river has overwhelmed to the point
that you can't see the bridges anymore.
I went to the Salvation Army store in Czech Village and donated some
albums and tapes. I'm sure they're floating down the river somewhere as
well. There is only one bridge over the Cedar you can use, the 380
bridge and it's down to one line both ways. The highway 30 bridge is
the other way but the Cedar is lapping at the ends. If that gets shut
down, I won't get to work anytime soon.
Right now kiddies, Crabby needs y'all to say a special prayer but not
for me but for the people of this state. I want all my friends out
there to pray for us for no more rain in this area. I've been trying to
pray that for weeks, seems like I'm fighting a losing battle with that
and the water in the basement. I can't fathom to you in words what 25
feet of floodwater does, i'm a loss of words for this. And pray that
this will never happen again in our lifetime, anywhere in this world.
And pray for a better and much dryer world.
The Top Ten Of The Week but without comment
1. After The Flood-Lone Justice 1985
2. Summer Of Your Discontent-The Townedgers 2008
3. Gonna Take A Lotta River-Oak Ridge Boys 1988
4. Phoenix-Dan Fogelburg 1978
5. Not Where It's At-Del Amitri 1998
6. Box Of Rain-Grateful Dead 1971
7. Five Feet High And Rising-Johnny Cash 1958
8. Riding The Storm Out-Reo Speedwagon 1973
9. Pray-MC Hammer 1991
10. After The Rain-The Angels 1980
Comments: From Lizzy Williams I'm praying for the you guys there. Peace much love..
Maura Page writes:
My office is just off downtown Des Moines. We had to put our BCP in to
play this week and get relocated. Which means driving to West Des Moines,
and having to check into a different building, and hope I can find my
computer. Half the staff is getting time off, paid. I got Wednesday off,
and possibly tuesday when they move us back into our office. As long as
the building did not flood when the river crests this weekend.
Otherwise, we have been pretty unaffected in our home.
