Monthly Archives: June 2008

Twitter

Twitter is one of those ideas that I originally was unable to understand. And while I still don’t fully appreciate it, I have started to understand why it has become as popular as it is. It is interesting to get

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Flood Aftermath

The water finished falling a while ago and the massive cleanup effort had started even before the river was back to normal. And it will indeed be a massive cleanup. Most of the float houses suffered some kind of damage

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Current State of … Things

New Forecast: 32 Feet Current Level: 29.62 Feet Water Restrictions in effect Drinking only Cedar Rapids water treatment currently at 25% Water bottles have been filled Mandatory evacuation may or may not be in effect here Basically everyone within 1

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Stranded

So…the floods have finally cut us off from leaving the general area. Ellis is closed as it mostly just looks like part of the river now. We have a high road that leads out of the area through back roads

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Flooding!

So…Cedar Rapids is currently experiencing record flooding. And it isn’t done yet. The Cedar River at Cedar Rapids has a flood stage of 12 feet. Meaning, once the river is above 12 feet, flooding is technically occurring. As I am

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