Flooding

[AJ]

Can't even begin to understand what these people in the midwest are going though. Just take a look at photos online from Cedar Rapids alone. The city is a wreck. Downtown is a lake reaching 2nd and 3rd stories of some buildings. Cleanup will be a horrible task.

My sister is currently trapped in Cedar Rapids. She lives in a area safe from flooding, but can't reach work due to National Gaurd road blocks and can't travel home to the parents house due to roads and bridges along the way washed out. It's really a sad case. My parents lost a lot of crop this year as well, and many friends of family are trapped in various areas with no power or access roads to get out.

I can't imagine people with entire homes and history washed away like this.

I really wish there was something we could do, but other than some labor when the time comes what is there? Prayers go out to everyone.

[Jana]

Correction - your sister is trapped in Cedar Falls (not Cedar Rapids).

[Matt D.]

Just like how Lake Delton at Wisconsin Dells drained into the Wisconsin river because the dam broke. They have plans to fill the lake when the dam is repaired, but between the flooding in Wisconsin, Iowa and all along the Mississippi River the midwest is getting hit pretty hard.

I was in Iowa quite a few years ago around Ames when there was flooding. An intersection in the middle of nowhere had corn fields completely underwater on all sides with water lapping at the pavement. There was a river nearby that was still rising and later that night the intersection was underwater. Watching the Des Moines news they showed water that was creeping gradually up a road, traveling an inch every few seconds... It was pretty freaky seeing that with houses and businesses a stone's throw away and not even sandbags would stop that.

[mndsm]

Yeah, I can't say that i've been the victim of any serious flooding myself, but that truly scares the hell out of me.

[ij1889]

it is sad that floods like this happen, it seems everywhere i go i am followed by floods, ecuador, houston, and now here, its both sad and crazy

[Matt D.]

God flushed, it's just unfortunate that the midwest is in the path of the drain.

[Matt D.]

Ouch...

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