Sunday, June 15, 2008

Who Is Running The City? Cedar Rapids 2008 Flood

Today the water is receding and people are wanting to get into their homes and businesses to see the damage. Tempers are running high as people are realizing that they might not get in as everything has to be inspected for safety first.

The news has been running 24/7 with information about what is going on. Here is a few minutes of Channel 9 News. It shows some of the damage in the downtown area.

The GOOD news is that the water is up to 50% service instead of the 25% that we have been running at. We were in risk of running out of water in a couple of days if the water usage hadn't be reduced. We still need to conserve, but are allowed to flush the toilets and shower now. We are an odd number of house so we can use water on odd number days and then Even numbers homes can use water on even number of days.

We have been very fortunate in our area to only have lost power for a couple of hours and still have had ALL of our services. That is really amazing when you see the damage everywhere in the city. I feel so lucky considering 25,000 people have been displaced and over 4000 homes damaged.

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