Iowa Residents Anxious to Return Home

PlusIowa Residents Anxious to Return HomeIowa Residents Anxious to Return HomeThe Associated PressThe recent flooding in the midwest has displaced over 25,000 residents in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As The Associated Press's Mark Carlson reports, a few of them are getting anxious to get back home. (June 16)Nats from un-identified woman "You know they can't tell you, no two people can tell the same freakin' story around here." (video of check point) PATIENCE S IS RUNNING THIN. Nats from un-identified woman"Yesterday we was told we can get back into the house. Today we don't know when." (video of people at a check point/video of no-access sign) HOMEOWNERS ARE BEING TURNED AWAY AT CHECK POINTS. A DAY AFTER SOME WHERE ALLOWED TO GO VISIT THEIR PROPERTY AND GRAB SOME BELONGINGS, AUTHORITIES ARE NOT LETTING ANYONE ACCESS. Nats of cop talking to Mike Newcomb"we aren't allowing anyone access right now." Mike Newcomb/can't go home"I mean there is just so many things and what can I do? I'm powerless over doing any of this right now. (video of dry streets/file of flooded streets) THE WATER IS MAKING ITS WAY OUT OF TOWN LEAVING CITY STREETS DRY WITH DEBRIS. MORE THAN 9 SQUARE MILES OF CEDAR RAPIDS WERE FLOODED. NOW OWNERS CAN SEE THERE PROPERTY BUT JUST CAN'T REACH IT. Mike Newcomb/can't go home"I got a car that's not even a half a mile down the road they won't let me get to. I got a house that I can't get to it and I got a business that's swamped and can't get in there. (video looking right through Rhonda Boots home) MANY HOMES JUST AREN'T STRUCTURALLY SOUND. YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF RHONDA BOOTS HOME. Rhonda Boots/lost home in flood"The two walls that are standing are buckled in and I don't think it would be safe at all. So I think it will be pretty much condemned and everything is in there. So it's lost." (video of military guard) MILITARY AND POLICE ARE KEEPING PEOPLE AWAY UNTIL EACH PROPERTY CAN BE INSPECTED AND CLEARED. Mike Newcomb/can't go home"I respect what they are doing. I'm sure they are taking a lot of gruff about people wanting to get in. Better to be safe than sorry." (video of people waiting) ABOUT 25,000 PEOPLE WERE RUN OUT OF CEDAR RAPIDS. NOW THEY ARE WAITING A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO GO BACK HOME TO SEE WHAT'S LEFT. MARK CARLSON, AP, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

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[sibzianna]

For those of you who think we are all okay- we are not! Many of us still haven't been able to "go home" and we are being told it will be years before they decide what they should do. We are rebuilding so they better fix the levee.

[dtmbcorp]

Get ready to see more of this.

Are we going to take it?

FUCK NO!

[louis12346]

Video > Strike teams make entry into flood ravaged Cedar Rapids