I sort of suck at LJ. And blogging in general. Woot. Okay, I'll give it a try.

I am house sitting for my dad. He had to travel for work this weekend - our branch office is finally moving back into their office, and he's down there to help set up the networking. He has a puppeh (the best puppeh in the land) so I came up to his house for the weekend ( Read more... )

See? I told you Cubetown was coming. Different angle, but same area.


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I don't have a before picture (or if I do, I can't find it), but you can imagine it. I took this picture through one of the yet-to-be-replaced windows as I was walking to my car Friday night. Carpet is definitely a sign of progress and on Monday morning, I saw them moving cubicle parts into the first floor. December 1 is the tentative date IT will ( Read more... )

is why Cedar Rapidians are so pissed off about the lack of coverage.

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As far we're we're concerned? Not overreacting.

Some notes:

The beginning of the video shows the front door to the Alliant Tower. There is absolutely nowhere in town that they could've gotten that footage except from the roof of my building.

At 1:00, you see Mays Island, our city ( Read more... )

Saturday is Sherry's birthday. Sherry will be 30. Sherry is Not. Pleased. about turning 30. In fact, one might say she's dreading it. She plans on skipping town and not telling anyone her plans until the last minute so no one can plan a party for her this weekend.

She didn't count on me and Tara, though.

She didn't remember that a day called " ( Read more... )

HELLO. It's been a while, hasn't it? Let's see. Last flood related news was...oh yes. Crap, two weeks ago. A lot of crap has been going on. Hmm. Well, everyone loves lists!

1) Floodage

I'm not going to give any links cuz that would be effort, i.e. requiring me to look for them. Let me try to stuff it in a nutshell. The river crested on June 13th (I ( Read more... )

Um. Because I haven't felt like it?

The river crested on Friday and it's going down quickly but it is leaving an immense amount of damage. Immense. There's houses off their foundations, we lost a window in our building, there's a bunch of buildings downtown that lost windows and doors, Hwy 150 heading south into Vinton is just...gone. Same with Hwy ( Read more... )

The river crested earlier today at 31.12 feet, approximately 7 feet higher than predicted. It's now starting to fall, slowly, and they expect us to be under major flood stage by Friday afternoon ( Read more... )

http://www.kcrg.com/floodwatch/coverage/19891824.html?video=YHI&t=a

This is from about 10 AM this morning. You will see my work building as they go past Mays Island, in the upper right corner of the picture. It's a little white cube with a black side of windows.

I found something that might help those who aren't from this area understand the utter devastation we're going through. You saw the aerial pic I showed you, where the bridges are completely underwater. Here's more comparisons:

( Under the cut because I'm *still* polite. )