Water everywhere
Cedar Falls and Waterloo have been in the national news this week due to record flooding along the Cedar River, which runs through both cities’ downtowns. Several local highways are covered and many residents in lower-lying areas [including our WCFSO administrative assistant] have been evacuated.
Hundreds of volunteers helped sandbag levees in Cedar Falls on Tuesday and Wednesday in an effort to keep water away from historic Main Street. River images were taken near the intersection of 1st and Franklin streets in downtown Cedar Falls, about 1 mile from where I live.
The eeriest aspect of this natural disaster – after a winter and spring dominated by dangerous weather – is that it has unfolded for the most part under the calmest, clearest skies of the year in Iowa.
[Images from this American Red Cross Flickr set documenting the midwest flooding and tornados of 2008.]
