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The Cedar River poured over its banks, forcing the evacuation of nearly 4,000 homes, leaving cars underwater on downtown streets.
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32 responses // Cedar Rapids is underwater

  • Dood the Midwest is getting pummeled.
    Swiyyah
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  • Man I hope everyone came out alive.
    cerealforeal
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  • so sad
    sgirgis72
  • dont worry cedar rapids i just called FEMA and they said they will be there in a couple of days.
    fuckbush
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here, and here
    All the while there is a drought in the west.
    Hope everyone gets out safe and they can send some H20 to Cali.
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    BetterWatching
  • Seriously man, SoCal is stealing all our water over here. Desert barbarians, they just send out raiding parties on motorcycles and dune buggies. Theres this big guy in a mask who keeps telling us "Just walk away..."
    Hope the folks out there aren't getting too waterlogged. Make like Master Chief and fight The Flood.
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • welcome to the 21st century.
    have we had enough?
    stephenthomson
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtD5japDtY
    here is some video from a downtown hotel in cedar rapids
    fuckbush
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  • Damn it, global warming, c'mon!
    PatrioticAstronaut
  • That is so crazy. We are having the same problem where I live. It's been raining for two weeks straight now. And it's the prairies where it's usually so dry!
    taylorblue
  • What if this is a side effect of using HAARP and it is quickening the effects of Global Warming. CHeck out both links.
    http://current.com/items/89003708_tesla_s_earthquake_ma...
    http://current.com/items/89003883_weather_warfare
    amirct3
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  • FTW. The Midwest's mini Katrina.
    slicedbread
  • Where are the crazies all over crying for FEMA?
    jeffreyak
  • I'm in Minnesota and, yeah, I'm getting nervous.
    Worst flood since the early 1900's.
    huntre
  • Here in Illinois, we finally got rid of the water for awhile. There's no real damage where I live, but in Terre Haute, our neighboring city, got flooded pretty bad. A lot of people were evacuated and sent to shelters. The Wabash river reached levels not seen since 1913. Here's just one more major event I'm sad to remember.
    nikki185usa
  • This quote from the article makes me angry:

    "We're just kind of at God's mercy right now, so hopefully people that never prayed before this, it might be a good time to start," Linn County Sheriff Don Zeller said. "We're going to need a lot of prayers, and people are going to need a lot of patience and understanding."

    It'd be nice if we had more people in charge who had the fortitude to ask a little more of the citizenry than prayer. Prayer won't repair our infrastructure. Prayer won't hold city planners accountable. Prayer won't prevent the next natural disaster from wrecking a U.S. city. Leadership and collective responsibility might. Prayer will just make the hopelessness seem a little more bearable.
    beedee
  • Let's see how long it takes for WHITE people that voted FOR Bush to get THEIR homes repaired
    riffhard98
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  • why do people bring up a president in a tragedy....as if that brings about healing. How unwise of persons.

    Those pictures remind me of what Houston looked like and Houston repaired itself and is still here. In the mist of tragedy there can be an awesome silver lining.

    I just saw a preview of a movie that is about a town that was blown away by a tornado. They were devastated but upon rebuilding they decided to do something that would be unique and make the entire town Green...eco friendly....

    Such a great idea and it brought the community together. Tragedy sometimes does that.

    But other times it tears people apart because they have to point and blame people. Blaming can be done after things start to get fixed. Blaming now is a waste of time and ruins the spirit that one should have to heal.
    J_Jammer
  • Shit. I grew up in Iowa. I need to go call my grandparents...
    AnemicElitist
  • FEMA anyone...?...hello?....are you there? or are you busy dodging Katrina victims still living in trailers? And don't give us the BS that people choose to live there, c'mon!
    jaxgrfx
  • Well now the water is going to be all polluted there too. arrrrgh let's all move into tree houses and sky scrapers.
    arturogarza
  • Hello, can you say, "Global Warming"???
    Julie_Soller
  • let's see how fast the government gonna respond to this cirsis in the midwest
    santana01
  • "I believe that this is God's way of doing things, and I've got insurance, so I'm not worried about it," said Tim Grimm, who was forced to leave his home in the city's Czech Village area.

    I can't believe it. God's way of doing things? Not very kind or merciful their God. I truly hope people get the help they need, but wow.
    JanforGore
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  • I grew up in Cedar Rapids and went to school at the University of Iowa. My heart is with you Iowa...
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    uroborus8
  • http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/19935509.html
    Pictured here is the Palo nuclear power plant just outside of Cedar Rapids. Local officials say all is well....
    uroborus8
  • http://2008flood.org/
    Help starts here....
    uroborus8

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