My heart goes out to my old friends in Iowa. It is much, much worse than the national news is portraying, because they are only showing major cities, such as Cedar Rapids which is experiencing a record 500 year flood. The small towns along the Cedar and Iowa rivers and the farms are being devastated. Think of the livestock, the waste treatment plants (destroyed or without power), and people's lives at risk not only from the rising waters, but lacking access to health care, and being exposed to what is in the water. Go to the area papers, Cedar Rapids Gazette
and Iowa City Press-Citizen for the latest information and pictures.
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