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Jun 11 2009

A year ago today, June 11: Cedar Rapids Flood ’08

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Wednesday, 06/11/08, I had to take a bunch of detours to get to work and they started evacuating people. Right after work, we were sitting outside my house and talking about the flood warning; wondering how bad it would get. The forecast was that it would be worse than the flood in 1993. Then 3 fire trucks, 12 cop cars, a huge mobile command center, and 10 Nat’l Guard humvees flew by.

Me and Mah Kizzle ventured down just a little ways from my house to near Czech Village, one of two areas in Cedar Rapids under immediate danger, the other being Ellis Blvd.

Then on the way back home, we were chancing some of the flooded streets because we were all brave in the truck and I got all wet as we went through one intersection and I couldn’t get the window up in time. :)

Hard to believe it’s been a year.

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Jan 07 2009

Wordless Wednesday #14 Cedar Rapids Flood ’08

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Hard to believe it’s been six months, but it sure has.

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Dec 12 2008

A video from gazetteonline.com about Flood ’08

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The unstoppable epic surge from GazetteOnline.com on Vimeo.

Pictures of the flood taken by myself

I need to get out and take some more to show you all the effort that’s been going into rebuilding; even though we have snow and ice, people just work around it.

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Jul 15 2008

Flood ’08: Chapter The Last

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Just got back from a week in Michigan visiting my seester and mom. We rode horses, grilled out almost every meal, drank our weight in beer, sat beside the bonfire and talked and laughed until we almost barfed. I’ve got all the pictures transferred to computer, but still have to get all the losers deleted and then the winners uploaded to flickr. I took 113 with the point-n-shoot and 125 with the fancy-shmancy camera, but I don’t take pictures like a normal person. I’m one of those weirdoes that might take five pictures of the same damn thing at all different angles and then save one winner out of all of them. Or worse, save all five, make you look at all of them, demand that you compare them AND notice the minute differences, AND get just as excited as me about it. Yeah, I’m all about the people skills.

I’ve come home to a full To Do Or Die List and almost 300 unread in my Google Reader, and I’m all sorts of excited on getting these pics up on a blog post to share with you. Calgon, take me away.

Last set of Flood Aftermath pics I’ve taken. I want to sincerely thank you all for looking through my Cedar Rapids Flood ’08 pictures and walk along beside me as I try to wrap my mind around the damage and devastation done to my town.

A refresher on buzzing quickly through a set in flickr:
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This set was taken 06/30/2008 Czech Village, Time Check, and Ellis Blvd. Click on, people.



Beauty From Ashes


Sign of the Times


Comfort Left Behind


Mr. Skeleton has a cleaning mask on.
Whoever did this had the right idea.
After you’re done crying, try to laugh a little.


Current force even brought up bolts out of cement and bent the heavy metal


Houseboats off Ellis


Click here to help. And you don’t even have to be from ’round these parts to make a difference. You know you wanna. Everybody’s doing it. If you loved me, you’d let me. I bought dinner.

Whoof. I just went from trying to get you to help to trying to get you in bed. What a hussy.

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Jul 07 2008

Flood ’08: Chapter 6

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Now, before you climb my frame for taking pictures in the residential neighborhoods, I want to say 1- I went very early in the morning so I wouldn’t be in the way of clean-up efforts and also respect the homeowners’ feelings that they didn’t want people taking their pictures and 2- YES, I’VE VOLUNTEERED.

Ok fine. Here we go.


A house… in the street.

A shed on the stairs that lead to 3rd Street Live

A refresher on buzzing quickly through a set in flickr:

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This set was taken 06/21/2008 between 8th Av and Czech Village. Click on, people. Then click here to help. And you don’t even have to be from ’round these parts to make a difference. Go on, now. Shoo.

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