Flooded Cedar Rapids
Take a boat tour of Cedar Rapids. Interesting notes in the video: huge underground gas tanks pop out of the ground when submerged – I didn’t know that. And car trunk locks short out when submerged, popping the trunk open. Didn’t know that either.
Worse, the flooded area is a huge cultural loss. There’s an African American museum, a Czech museum, a theatre, a Nature Center. Apparently the water was something like 12 feet higher than the ‘93 floods.
And here’s a bunch of people in Iowa City demonstrating how much confidence they have in the Burlington Street Bridge. There’s a dam directly under their feet, normally with 3 or 4 feet of water flowing over it – now 18 feet or so. And here are some amazingly well-edited aerial photos of the Iowa City area. where I lived from about ‘62 to ‘69. And incredible aerial footage from Des Moines.
Great choices of music on those videos but I would have preferred informative narration. Just my two cents.
UPDATES:
- Chicago Tribune photo gallery
- What’s in the water? (hog feces, farm chemicals, sewage, and fuel)
- Iowa City Press Citizen home page and Flood of ‘08 photo galleries by day
- Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” essay Mississippi floodwaters in Iowa
It is hard not to have a grim fascination with the news and videos of the flooding. Very sad.
That was freaky !!
Had been following the floods on news..but these videos are just scary !!