Historic Flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

PlusHistoric Flooding in Cedar Rapids, IowaHistoric Flooding in Cedar Rapids, IowaThe Associated PressThe Cedar River poured over its banks here Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving much of downtown underwater. (June 12)Steve Shriver/owns flooded business "Something is collapsing over there.""What do you think it is?""I think it's a parking garage." (TRACK) CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA IS FALLING APART AS THE CEDAR RIVER SWALLOWS THE CITY. IT LOOKS MORE LIKE VENICE, ITALY THAN THE MIDDLE OF IOWA. Steve Shriver/owns flooded business"The river is literally running through buildings." (TRACK) STEVE SHRIVER OWNS AN ORGANIC LIP BALM BUSINESS LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN. AND HIS PRODUCTION ROOM IS IN THE BASEMENT...SEVERAL FEET UNDER WATER. Steve Shriver/owns flooded business"we have a million sticks of lip balm sitting in the at building waiting to be shipped out, that we cannot reach." (TRACK) DESPITE DAYS OF PREPARING FOR THE FLOOD, NOTHING WAS ABLE TO STOP THE WATER FROM RISING INTO DOWNTOWN. SOT:(Tom Aller/Pres., Interstate Power and Light Alliant Energy) "Water has risen to the point where all of downtown is really under water. All of our steam system is down and under water so the major customers of steam, such as quaker oats and folks like that are out. And our electric system is out as well." MARK CARLSON/STANDUP CEDAR RAPIDS CEDAR RAPIDS IS OVER RUN BY AN UNIMAGINEABLE AMOUNT OF WATER. THE CEDAR RIVER IS TAKING WITH IT ANYTHING IT CAN AS FLOOD WATERS CONTINUE TO RISE. (TRACK)The city has put an evacuation order in and that's helping because the workers are not coming downtown." The amount of flooding in this area is unprecedented and no one knows how long it could take to get back to normal. SOT:(Tom Aller/Pres., Interstate Power and Light Alliant Energy) "As far as what we're telling our customers, we're talking about an indefinite outage here, for sure." Steve Shriver/owns flooded businessNats "deep sigh" IT'S JUST TOO MUCH TO LOOK AT FOR SHRIVER. HIS LIVELY HOOD IS UNDER WATER. Steve Shriver/owns flooded business"There is no insurance to cover it. We need some sort of help from FEMA." FOR NOW, ALL ANYONE CAN DO IS WATCH THE WATER RISE. MARK CARLSON, AP, CEDAR RAPIDS, IA.

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[monkeybone1010]

i remember when there was alot of water in my basement

[ZacharyStreet]

I live 5 blocks away from downtown...my house didn't get that much damage though(Thank God).

[zackrox34]

@bakuganman1234 it was very scary im saying this 3 years later and i almost got affected and a good chunk of my friends got flooded one of them actually stayed at my house for 3 months waiting to get a new home and then they mived to a house and now were good

[zorkntatertotter]

@LorgarAurelian stohhp iit . yur gonna hurt their feeLings? . hahaaa . .. your racist comments are common low life . anyone can say that . .  .hahaaa . . wut a dubaLin . hahaaaaa

[kozjevime1]

Why we can not dig kanals like in Europe and China to eliminate floods in great degree. If we use our few Million of prizoners for earth work (digging etc) we can save land from future tragedies. We can also learn from more developed countrieds like Germany, Poland, Russia and their methods of defending from flood.

[213momanddad]

I was there, I evacuated, don't anyone say it wasn't hard or make fun of these people this was bad.

[LorgarAurelian]

HAHA STUPID ASS LIP BALM GUY GOT OWNED BY FLOOD BITCH HAHA STUPID ASS NIGGER LOVER

[jmeove]

Uuuhh yeah you did.

It started in the upper mississippi and took around a month to flow through the state.

Plus listen to the video at 0.32.

[YungNation456FMG]

@jmeove No we didn't Dumb shit don't speak on what u don't know

[Cougars2448]

Hey dipshits I was hit by the flood and all of my dogs died. Why do people joke about shit like this. It was pretty bad and I live in Palo IA where there are still houses being torn down:/ pretty bad