ournal Entry: Fri Jun 13, 2008, 1:18 PM
I live in a northern suburb of a Cedar Rapids IA along the Cedar River. All of downtown C.R. is flooded. In a town nearby, Palo, is a nuclear power plant, which is underwater. The National Guard is here to help, FEMA will be here soon, we have a curfew starting @ 9pm ending @ 5a for the time being. I guess the President has called in... No one alive has seen flood water like this in the area. The highest the river has been recorded is 20.0' in 1961 & 1851 before that. in '93 it was 19.3' The river is currently recorded @ 25.7' We've had rain all week, and before this we had tornados. Downtown of my hometown is flooded as well, pretty much all of my immediate family lives along the Cedar River. My Dad's Wife's Sister's house her husband built in New Hartford got hit by a tornado, they were going to salvage the main beams and foundation, and rebuild, but now it's covered in flood water. At the same time, the only thing that has affected me directly is that i didn't have internet last night. and our electricity has been out a fair amount with all the thunderstorms and tornados. All my immediate family is high and dry. It's surreal. I've only seen pictures and video on the internet, don't wanna get in the way, and it's all anyones talking about right now.

if anyone wants to watch the local news coverage... its pretty decent...

www.kwwl.com/Global/category.asp

picture; “Water: H2O=Life” at the American Museum of Natural History, Visitors enter "Water: H20=Life" through a veil of mist.
Photo: D. Finnin/AMNH