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The Great Cedar Rapids Flood

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Just to let every­body know, we’re still here and doing ok. Our house is approx­i­mately 1 mile out­side of the 500 year flood plain¹, so hope­fully we won’t have to evac­u­ate. Our main prob­lem around here at the moment is a lack of usable water. The city only has one well work­ing at the moment, so they can only out­put about a fourth of what they nor­mally do. I’ve read var­i­ous reports indi­cat­ing it will at least a week if not more like 2 or 3 until things start return­ing to nor­mal. If I get a chance to safely take any pho­tos of the flood, I will do so. How­ever I’m not going to run out and do that right away, as it’s both dan­ger­ous and pos­si­bly would put me in the way of safety/emergency work­ers. Those are the sort of peo­ple you want happy with you, so I’m not going to go out and do stu­pid shit to piss them off. :)

¹ You can view the flood plain area via Google Maps.

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