Flood of 2008 - Cedar Rapids Iowa

[12783USAGRL]

scary

[IowaHawks203]

i live in cr to see it with ur own eyes is.... sad..... its amazing how no people died through this. my dad and i spent 6 hours sandbagging my aunts boat house smashed into the bridge. some places still untouched as of now. it will never be the same again.

[4lyfe3vsheelysgood59]

This is very sad..I lived in close by ellis, and lost everything we got 7ft of water in our house, which was unbelieveable luckily we got to rebuild, my heart goes out to everyone that was in the flood, stay strong.

[AnastasiaCaine18]

I came close of getting hit by the flood but I lost electricty and I still evactuated.

[angiekoles1]

this is so sad my cuzz maggie lives in c.r and her house was compleatly under water everything they had was lost its sad becuase ive been there before and its a very good place i just cant beleive this happened all my love to all the flood victims i hope things get better my cuzzin maggie says that there are still houses that havent even been touched since my uncle mikes house was compleatly gone 2 he lost his cat to the flood its just so sad that this happened hope it gets better i really do

[ABCproductions2009]

I saw it in my own eyes and it was sad. i about started crying when i saw how much water we got. It's just sad to see all of these people lose their homes.

[ChevyGirl813]

you had to see it with your own eyes to believe it.....it was completley surreal.

[bonelesschickenwingz]

omgzz i lived on ellis blvd so i got hit bad my house just got knocked down a few weeks ago

[dmt2500]

This is really really sad

[alliec8301]

I was apart of the flood and it was sad for me and my family. The community suffered alot. What I love most about this video is that at the end I get to see mt dogs getting rescued and it makes me cry everytime. We jsut didn't have time to get them out.

[jhslove2008]

i am from C.R and this was hard to see i love my town and it makes me sad.

My parars go out to flood victoms

[doggygonedog]

this is sad i cnt belive tht! it was a rilly bad flood

[kanikowskisgirl]

I went to help out a month later and it was so sad to see the destruction and see all of the homes that had huge piles of stuff piled in front of them..I did not see all the water but it was so sad to see the after affect. The bridge was horrible too that had the train on it. Too bad, but it was amazing to see Americans pull together to help eachother out. God be with everyone that suffered and those that helped.

[majolia]

daughters house flooded she's still being kept out as july 9th so she could recover her famiies stuff,find a family send them 10 bucks directly. fema sent 100 trailors for 4000 families.they went from telling people they would get 50,000 repair money plus loans up to 100,000 cut it to 28,000\50,000, 8,000 for home repairs and no loans available for a year now. congress should investigate this disaster,where 1993flood control money to the city\state went. dredge and levee money disappeared

[alongdayslife]

Here is just a glimpse of the devastation caused by the recent floods in Cedar Rapids.

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