Cedar Rapids Flood Pic

[buddy]

(Taken from front page of MSNBC.com)

 

[redsfann]

http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

http://www.gazetteonline.com/

1st link is to the website of Iowa City's local paper; 2nd is the Cedar Rapids paper website.
Lots of pictures of the flooding. I look at the pictures with disbelief. I lived in Iowa City/Coralville for 15 years and was living there during the flood of '93.That one was the worst the area had ever seen--this one is much, much worse than the one in '93.

 

[Cie]

It sucks. I definitely feel their pain.

Sadly, when this happened in New Orleans, I was forced to respond to several assholes at this forum who felt that New Orleans should not be rebuilt. Good thing Iowans don't have to hear that nonsense. They are going through enough right now.

 

[vinnie]

An aisle at Jim's Foods sits in a muddy disarray after floodwaters receded, Wednesday, June 18, 2008, in Cedar Rapids,

 

[vinnie]

Flood waters cover part of the small town of Oakville, Iowa

 

[vinnie]

Charlie Lough herded his cattle onto the porch of his farm house, before he fled to safety from the rising water of the Cedar River

 

[vinnie]

waterfront business district along the edge of the Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa

 

[vinnie]

Two men row a boat through a flooded area in Coralville, Iowa.

 

[vinnie]

houses completely submerged by floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa

 

[vinnie]

Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Coralville, Iowa,

 

[vinnie]

A pig who somehow floated or swam several miles from the flooded hog barns near Oakville, Iowa,

 

[vinnie]

Brandon Smith carries his two cats, Fry and Bender, to dry land from their flooded and evacuated home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

 

[vinnie]

Dennis Sloan prepares his dinner on his roof as floodwaters carry debris past his house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

 

[vinnie]

flooded hog farm, which used to be surrounded by cornfields, is pictured in Oakville, Iowa

 

[vinnie]

sign outside the Iowa Welcome Center is paritally submerged in flood water from the Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa.

 

[Jaxx]

Unreal The Mississippi river or any river for that matter can be very unforgiving. Give me the high ground.