We have had quite the experience here in east Iowa. Most of it started Thursday, I tried to get to school to tutor, and got one block in 5 min. I decided it wasn't worth it and turned around and came home. Out main street to the interstate is especially bad because it is the first open one past downtown where all the flooding is. So everyone on the south side of town takes that exit now, including police, fire men, and national guard. So anyway I came back home and Nathaniel decided to stay home from work until the road cleared a little, and then we lost power. So we were without power for about 3 hours in the morning. We played a lot of hand and foot (a card game for those who have never played). We got power back around noon, so we quick made some lunch and watched all the news coverage to see what was going on, and it was crazy to see downtown and all the houses just covered in water. There were refrigerators and couches floating down the "street". Needless to say we did not get out on Thurs. We again l0st power in the afternoon for a couple more hours. By then we were getting worried about the food in our refrigerator, but so glad that we had none of the problems others were facing. Then Thurs. night we are told that we only have 25% water capacity for Cedar Rapids and that we are to only use the water for drinking only. So we had the motto in our house "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down." We also got about 5 1/2 in. of rain that evening. It was amazing how hard the rain was coming down.
Sorry this picture is blurry but I was getting soaking wet, it is the water spewing out of our rain gutter.
Friday Nathaniel went to work at 6:30 to beat the traffic and I was home watching the news, still without using water. That night I wanted to go travel across the 380 bridge, the only bridge open in the town by this point. So we get on our road heading for the interstate and we get about a mile in an hour. By that time we weren't going to make it by the time it was dark so we turned around and went home.
So Saturday we went in the morning and this is what I saw.
Sorry, I will post more pictures later, the website is not downloading my pictures. So check in later for more pictures of the flood and the kitty.
So by Saturday night I was really wanting a shower. So we had a nice friend from church, who was not on a water restriction, lent us his shower. It was the best shower.
So that leads us to today. We went to church, without a minister, because he is in SD, so we had an elder read a sermon. We had a lot of singing and some testimonies from people, so it was an hour and a half church service plus a half hour after to explain how we as a church will be involved with all the clean up.
On our way home from church we notice even more devastation. On of the towers near the railroad tracks was cracking from the foundation shifting and corn was all over. It will be a long time before Cedar Rapids is the same.
But on the up side we are up to 50% water so we can shower and wash dishes every other day. YAYAYA! Really we are only supposed to use water on odd days since our house number is odd. That there was of trying to control the water. I don't care at this point. My kitchen is now clean again.
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