THIS IS DETERMINATION...
Cleaning up flood damage in downtown Cedar Rapids from Richard Pratt on Vimeo.
The devastation that the floods left behind is unbelievable. I feel so bad for the residents and small business owners that lost everything. This poor woman who owns a catering company just realizes that her 1 year anniversary of starting her business is the very day she is being interviewed about what she is going to do now. How ironic and sad.
Driving through the city now, you see nothing but mountains of debris that is being hauled out of the buildings. The entire first floor of every building in a 400 square block radius has to be gutted right down to the bare framing and rebuilt. The streets are lined with trucks from flood cleanup and renovation companies from all over the country.
posted by Scott in Iowa at 6/22/2008 01:13:00 PM
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Unreal. I hope help comes for everyone in a much better way than it came to some other cities devastated by natural disasters. *ahem*
And for all the other cities damaged by these floods, too.
Very sad, I remember once watching an interview with a man that had his house burned down and then years later he had a flood. He said the flood was much worse because he said with the fire, he could at least get on with rebuilding the next day, however with the flood they had to wait days for the water to go away and then a major clean up before he could even think of starting over.
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