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Levee Fails - Cedar Rapids, Iowa evacuated
Posted: June 12, 2008 5:18 pm
by flyboy55
Here we go again . . . somebody call FEMA . . . .
. . . "It hits everything. Colleges are shut down, stores, it's devastating," said Lisa Fox, vice president of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry.
"Cedar Rapids is completely shut down," she said of Iowa's second-largest city, where around 100 city blocks were flooded and a rail bridge collapsed. "It's going to be a long-term recovery."
The evacuations in Cedar Rapids, population 120,000, followed a round earlier Thursday when some residents of Iowa City and Cedar Bluffs were also told to head for higher ground.
Cedar Rapids' power is out for most of downtown, complicating rescue efforts, city spokesman Dave Koch told NBC News . . .
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25020185
Posted: June 12, 2008 5:31 pm
by nycfeat
Oh geez.
Posted: June 12, 2008 5:33 pm
by ph4ever
Oh crap
FEMA maybe the first to call but probably the last to arrive to help
Posted: June 12, 2008 5:36 pm
by RinglingRingling
ph4ever wrote:Oh crap
FEMA maybe the first to call but probably the last to arrive to help
and nobody wants one of their trailer parks in the neighbourhood
Posted: June 12, 2008 5:40 pm
by Brown Eyed Girl
Awwww crap.....
Iowa folks...check in when you can.
Posted: June 12, 2008 5:46 pm
by flipflopgirl
Thoughts and prayers to everyone there!
Posted: June 12, 2008 7:04 pm
by Skibo
Why would George Bush blow up a levee in Iowa?
Posted: June 12, 2008 9:30 pm
by SMLCHNG
Just so awful. So much damage.
Then to add to it the tornado's in KS and IA, too..
Thoughts and prayers to our midwest folks. Such sadness and loss of property and life.
Posted: June 12, 2008 9:50 pm
by springparrot