Historic Flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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PlusHistoric Flooding in Cedar Rapids, IowaHistoric Flooding in Cedar Rapids, IowaThe Associated PressThe Cedar River poured over its banks here Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving much of downtown underwater. (June 12)Steve Shriver/owns flooded business "Something is collapsing over there.""What do you think it is?""I think it's a parking garage." (TRACK) CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA IS FALLING APART AS THE CEDAR RIVER SWALLOWS THE CITY. IT LOOKS MORE LIKE VENICE, ITALY THAN THE MIDDLE OF IOWA. Steve Shriver/owns flooded business"The river is literally running through buildings." (TRACK) STEVE SHRIVER OWNS AN ORGANIC LIP BALM BUSINESS LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN. AND HIS PRODUCTION ROOM IS IN THE BASEMENT...SEVERAL FEET UNDER WATER. Steve Shriver/owns flooded business"we have a million sticks of lip balm sitting in the at building waiting to be shipped out, that we cannot reach." (TRACK) DESPITE DAYS OF PREPARING FOR THE FLOOD, NOTHING WAS ABLE TO STOP THE WATER FROM RISING INTO DOWNTOWN. SOT:(Tom Aller/Pres., Interstate Power and Light Alliant Energy) "Water has risen to the point where all of downtown is really under water. All of our steam system is down and under water so the major customers of steam, such as quaker oats and folks like that are out. And our electric system is out as well." MARK CARLSON/STANDUP CEDAR RAPIDS CEDAR RAPIDS IS OVER RUN BY AN UNIMAGINEABLE AMOUNT OF WATER. THE CEDAR RIVER IS TAKING WITH IT ANYTHING IT CAN AS FLOOD WATERS CONTINUE TO RISE. (TRACK)The city has put an evacuation order in and that's helping because the workers are not coming downtown." The amount of flooding in this area is unprecedented and no one knows how long it could take to get back to normal. SOT:(Tom Aller/Pres., Interstate Power and Light Alliant Energy) "As far as what we're telling our customers, we're talking about an indefinite outage here, for sure." Steve Shriver/owns flooded businessNats "deep sigh" IT'S JUST TOO MUCH TO LOOK AT FOR SHRIVER. HIS LIVELY HOOD IS UNDER WATER. Steve Shriver/owns flooded business"There is no insurance to cover it. We need some sort of help from FEMA." FOR NOW, ALL ANYONE CAN DO IS WATCH THE WATER RISE. MARK CARLSON, AP, CEDAR RAPIDS, IA.

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PaulyCracker (August 20, 2008 at 3:07 pm)
Actually, not everyone can get flood insurance. Sometimes they won't insure people in some areas. Also, LadyBarbossa is right, tough to make a living and then pay for insurance that you may never need. Also, it's like a 18 year old taking out a life insurance policy. Chances are he won't need it until he's in his 70's. We don't get many 1 in 500+ year floods.
LadyBarbossa (August 10, 2008 at 7:04 am)
this was no pussy flood. Scarey as hell. And Lord knows if you'd have a place left, or livelihood, etc.
it was very scarey.
Get your arse over here and help out instead of calling it a pussy flood! It'll take years for this city to recover!
pilif12p1 (August 18, 2008 at 9:57 pm)
yeah really. These people are pissing me off. saying the flood is "pussy" and people in iowa are "ignorant fucks" These people should get their ass' down here and see what it WAS. Now its probably about a hundredth of the way done cleaning up. People should just shut up.
pilif12p1 (August 10, 2008 at 3:47 am)
yeah that is what i thought. Businesses are probably at least $2000 a month. Floods are pretty rare, espically ones like this. People need to think about what they say before they say it
pilif12p1 (August 9, 2008 at 1:20 am)
Almost 1300 Houses got hit hard, Big businesses are having to relocate. Some are not reopening again. The federal and city court house are getting torn down. If you think thats not bad enough drink some of our flood water. Its not JUST river water, its full of raw sewage. Now think about ALL the meen comments you have said.
pilif12p1 (August 9, 2008 at 1:19 am)
you know what! the flood is not a joke. you have to be in iowa to see how bad it was! Almost half of CR was totally flooded and history is gone. I wish you would just get hit by a tornado if you think this is funny. So do me a favor, fill your house with water, then put a big spinner in it, then burn everything in it. Thats pretty much what the flood did to us. Just come to CR and look at all the houses that have a purple placard on it. ALL of those houses are getting torn down, almost 500-600.
pilif12p1 (August 9, 2008 at 1:07 am)
You know what bitch, you need to get flooded if you think its funny to loose EVERTHING
WillBackbone (August 6, 2008 at 2:17 am)
any American can purchase flood insurance you ignorant fuck. Do you have kids ?
nikk6785 (August 6, 2008 at 6:39 am)
im only 15 dude and im gonna b the mature 1 here..btw ur the ignorant 1 u dont no what it means all u do is cuss cuss cuss' ne way bye im done arguing if u reply to this ur obviously really immature
pilif12p1 (August 10, 2008 at 3:44 am)
yes, Willbackbone is quite a jerk. I replyed to his comment so yeah