Cedar Rapids, Iowa Battles Historic Flood

The Cedar River poured over its banks Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets.

[Work Ethic in Iowa]

The news showed this terrible flood. The townspeople were out in masse, filling and stacking sandbags to protect their town. This is the kind on community spirit and responsible reaction to disaster that was missing in New Orleans. Pre teens to gray haired grandmothers were working as hard as they could to stem the rising waters. No one in Iowa was looting, or shooting at rescue helicopters, or blaming someone else for their problems.

[MSO4]

Must be from a iceberg from the Artic circle that melted because Cheney and some Big Oil cronies had a bar-b-que on it eating baby seal meat. I am sure the global warming crowd will certainly blame this on Bushy somehow.

[London England]

I applaud you people in Iowa for your consistent bravery. I only wish it was as forthcoming in other areas of the planet - we could learn a lot from you. My prayers are with you.

[eric]

Thats the midwest mentality,,if you want it done ,do it yourself and if you see someone who cant do it,,help them and everyone works as a community!!!! thats what makes the midwest great,and we are smart enough to not want help from FEMA and notice how Wis. and Iowa are as bad as N.O. and the media isnt going ape sh(t about it.

[eric]

MSO4 wrote:

Must be from a iceberg from the Artic circle that melted because Cheney and some Big Oil cronies had a bar-b-que on it eating baby seal meat. I am sure the global warming crowd will certainly blame this on Bushy somehow.

We cant drill in Alaska because it might cause a Global Warming flood amagine that?

if we were drilling in Alaska right now and this was happening , emagine what the hell the liberals would be doing right now!!

[Steve]

Cedar Rapids & DeMoines = Katrina 2.0

[Steve]

And we shouldn't be drilling for more oil in Alaska. The pristine wilderness & wildlife should be preserved, and not scarred by short-sighted Republican supporters trying to find more oil and fatten their wallets. Money should be spent on non-polluting and renewable energy sources.

Bush is the worst thing to happen to our national environment in the last 100 yrs.

VOTE OBAMA!

[eric]

Lets ll pray for the people in Cedar rapids and other places in IOWA and Wisconsin as people lost thier houses in Baraboo, Lake Delton, and the Dells region. Please keep these people in your prayers!

[mlc9852]

Work Ethic in Iowa wrote:

The news showed this terrible flood. The townspeople were out in masse, filling and stacking sandbags to protect their town. This is the kind on community spirit and responsible reaction to disaster that was missing in New Orleans. Pre teens to gray haired grandmothers were working as hard as they could to stem the rising waters. No one in Iowa was looting, or shooting at rescue helicopters, or blaming someone else for their problems.

I thought the same thing. They aren't waiting for the government to take care of them.

[MSO4]

Steve wrote:

And we shouldn't be drilling for more oil in Alaska. The pristine wilderness & wildlife should be preserved, and not scarred by short-sighted Republican supporters trying to find more oil and fatten their wallets. Money should be spent on non-polluting and renewable energy sources.
Bush is the worst thing to happen to our national environment in the last 100 yrs.
VOTE OBAMA!

And just what is Obama doing? Nothing. And how will he lower gas prices. Just another young Obama cultist that has no clue about what Obama plans besides raising taxes.

[MSO4]

Steve wrote:

And we shouldn't be drilling for more oil in Alaska. The pristine wilderness & wildlife should be preserved, and not scarred by short-sighted Republican supporters trying to find more oil and fatten their wallets. Money should be spent on non-polluting and renewable energy sources.
Bush is the worst thing to happen to our national environment in the last 100 yrs.
VOTE OBAMA!

So emotional. The worst thing to happen to our enviorenment in the last 100 years boy wonder was the eruption of Mt St. Helens which disperesed more carbon monoxide than all the cars ever made. Get your facts right son.

[Long Haul Driver]

damn that flood, close the spam museum damn that flood to eternal hell.

[Gotta Love It]

eric wrote:

Lets ll pray for the people in Cedar rapids and other places in IOWA and Wisconsin as people lost thier houses in Baraboo, Lake Delton, and the Dells region. Please keep these people in your prayers!

Yeah I am sure your prayers to a nonexistant creature will help a lot. LOL

[Barry Halfwhite]

MSO4 wrote:

Must be from a iceberg from the Artic circle that melted because Cheney and some Big Oil cronies had a bar-b-que on it eating baby seal meat. I am sure the global warming crowd will certainly blame this on Bushy somehow.

People are suffering and you take the opportunity to kiss Neocon butt. Nice...

[Steve]

We deserve high gas prices. We're still paying about 1/2 of what Europe pays. We got ourselves stuck in this gas-guzzling culture, and now we're paying the price. So stop your whining about high gas prices, there are much bigger concerns in the world.

And it's hard for Obama to do anything when he's not even elected... YET!:)

[Steve]

I *will* qualify my statement by saying that Bush is the worst HUMAN-influenced thing to happen to our environment... his total lack of respect for nature & the environment is appalling.

The last time I checked, Mt. St. Helens was a NATURAL disaster. Not man-made.

LOL MS04...did you drop out of school in the 5th grade, or 6th?

[eric]

Gotta Love It wrote:

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Yeah I am sure your prayers to a nonexistant creature will help a lot. LOL

I suspect when its your time,youll find out the hard way!

[Long Haul Driver]

You have no clue what the hell your talking about.....the price of gas in England, Germany and France is on average 1.35 per liter, 4 liters is slightly more then a gallon that would make it about $5.40 a gallon get your facts right.

Steve wrote:

We deserve high gas prices. We're still paying about 1/2 of what Europe pays. We got ourselves stuck in this gas-guzzling culture, and now we're paying the price. So stop your whining about high gas prices, there are much bigger concerns in the world.
And it's hard for Obama to do anything when he's not even elected... YET!:)

[eric]

Barry Halfwhite wrote:

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People are suffering and you take the opportunity to kiss Neocon butt. Nice...

Truth hurt doesnt it..YOu know as well as the rest of us that the scum liberals take any and all shots at rep.,thats the only way they can win anything is by stupidity of people gullable to eat the liberal lies and no liberal can beat any rep. in a debate with facts,Conservatism beats liberalism in any and all fasits of goverment and life.

[Steve]

Long Haul Driver wrote:

You have no clue what the hell your talking about.....the price of gas in England, Germany and France is on average 1.35 per liter, 4 liters is slightly more then a gallon that would make it about $5.40 a gallon get your facts right. <quoted text>

I didn't say England, I said Europe. You can type amazingly well for someone who can't read.