FLOOD UPDATE = Cedar Rapids
The water is receding - slowly...about 28 feet down from 31 feet. 1300 city blocks have been flooded, 3,900 homes flooded and 24,000 people displaced. They'll begin letting people in their homes tomorrow - limited. Saw film of The Paramount Theater (where I performed) and he water that was up to the bottom of the marquis is down to the curb (see previous post for picture). Hate to think what it looks like inside.
PS - The news anchor on KCRG in Cedar Rapids named Beth Malicki - she's been on with Bruce Aune covering the flood? Pretty, but I can't stand listening to her anymore.
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I originally posted this in the morning but I found five more pictures (the first five), plus a chart to add to those I already had. I'm entralled by this entire scene. Dumbfounded. I just - obviously it means more to me than the casual reader from wherever because I spent 5 1/2 years in Cedar Rapids and I've WALKED these streets, BEEN to these places and LOVED my friends who are going through a terrible time and I can't do a damn thing for them.
Lake Delton. Pride of the Wisconsin Dells. Home to the Tommy Bartlett Water Show and The Ducks. World Renown. Vacation Paradise.
June 2008. Breached. Lake Delton draining into the Wisconsin River. The 250-acre Lake Delton is right next to the Wisconsin Dells, a big tourist destination in central Wisconsin. Governor Doyle promises that the lake will be re-filled.
Lake Delton - gone. AND, the Village of Lake Delton opted to decline participate in a floodplain insurance program offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Means FEMA may or may not declare it a disaster area - and Lake Delton may or may not get federal aid.
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