I'd take my own pictures, but the only free day I have this week is Friday, which ironically is crest day. This means flooded highways and no-go areas with Army troops, check points, hummers and tanks. (From remembering '93 as a kid) (As you will see a violent confrontation in this slide show, police/army don't f*ck around).
Anyway these are Iowa mostly, Missouri's plight hasn't started yet. Although a couple towns are already 'gone' by now. Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens) hometown of Hannibal should escape alive. Very neat little town if you're ever in the area. Although Twain would be mocking the flood fighting efforts saying you can't tame this wild river. Which you can't, we're guilty of building up around the river, and turning the river into a fast highway that doesn't have any 'release' points. To put it bluntly, we basically did to the river what you'd do to an obese man who wears size 50 pants and forced him to wear size 32... Its not going to work. I'm torn on the whole tear down the levee's and just let the river be like it was meant to be, because my family's farm is on one of these flood plains that have been leveed up when it shouldn't have.
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If you don't abey you will get shot. This is Iraq, I mean Iowa.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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The cats in this by the way are Fry and Bender of Cedar Rapids.