<VV> Fwd: flooding / Unhappy news

[Louis Armer]

Hi all, To all our friends in Iowa I wish good luck and a speedy 
recovery effort from this disaster.

Chuck Armer
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>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:36:34 -0400
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>From: Scott Trunkhill <strunkhill1 at comcast.net>
>Subject: flooding
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>http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=GO&Date=20080613&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=433934971&Ref=PH&Template=galleryzoom&Params=Itemnr=4
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>I live in Cedar Rapids and my house is fine since we live a couple 
>miles upwards from the Cedar River. However, my workplace, the 
>National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, is right on the river and 
>probably has at least ten feet of water in it right now. I was in 
>Michigan on our family vacation earlier this week when this all this 
>started to happen, so I was surprised to hear on Tuesday that the 
>river was predicted to crest at around 22 feet (the 1993 flood was a 
>little over 19 feet), which would mean a foot of water in the 
>building. My colleagues felt they could deal with this and told me 
>they could handle flood preparations without me. The reports on 
>Wednesday reports were predicting 24 feet, and I was getting 
>anxious. Wednesday afternoon the local authorities ordered staff and 
>volunteers to leave, by which time they had moved two semi trailers 
>loaded with museum artifacts and library materials to a safe 
>location. I got a call from the museum director Thursday morning 
>that the prediction was bumped up to 28 feet, so I came back to 
>Cedar Rapids last night. While on the way back I heard the 
>prediction was raised to 32 feet, which just made me numb because 
>that meant not only the assured destruction of what remained in the 
>museum but whole sections of the city. We won't know the extent of 
>the damage until the waters recede and we are cleared to enter the 
>building. We are preparing to re-open to the public, though who 
>knows how long that will be, and where.
>
>Iowa City, which is south of CR and along the Iowa River, is 
>preparing for massive flooding. Des Moines is too. And on Memorial 
>Day weekend a tornado wiped out half the town of Parkersburg, which 
>is around 90 miles northwest of CR. We have had extreme weather here 
>since Thanksgiving (nasty ice/snow storms this winter, rainstorms 
>this spring). I love my state of Iowa, but this is one bad stretch we are in.
>
>Dave
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>Dave M.
>Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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