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(Yahoo) Scary Amazing photo of houses on the Cedar River. Literally   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 91
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ninetywt [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 08:45:43 AM  
Maybe next time they'll build in a safer location.

 
kona [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 08:59:16 AM  
mobile homes

 
Suicidal Writer 2008-06-15 09:10:30 AM  
Parable of the Flood


A man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says "get in, get in!" The religous man replies, "No I have faith in God, he will grant me a miracle."

Later the water is up to his waist and another boat comes by and the guy tells him to get in again. He responds that he has faith in God and God will give him a miracle. With the water at about chest high, another boat comes to rescue him, but he turns down the offer again because "God will grant him a miracle."

With the water at chin high, a helicopter throws down a ladder and they tell him to get in. Mumbling with the water in his mouth, he again turns down the request for help. So he drowns.

He arrives at the gates of heaven and says to Peter, "What happened? I put my faith in God and He let me drown!" St. Peter responds, "We sent you three boats and a helicopter, what more did you want?"

 
Blues_Fan 2008-06-15 09:10:39 AM  
Beach houses on their way to the ocean

 
Pick 2008-06-15 09:11:32 AM  
Glad I live a really safe state, Florida.

 
saomai 2008-06-15 09:11:53 AM  
Well not to far to go to catch a train. Miserable for trying to sleep though.

 
YixilTesiphon 2008-06-15 09:11:53 AM  
Holy shiat.

 
dofus 2008-06-15 09:12:08 AM  
Cool. Someone's almost managed to collect the whole set.

 
H31N0US 2008-06-15 09:13:59 AM  
This happened in 1993, I remember.

 
Fahkinell 2008-06-15 09:15:12 AM  
ninetywt: Maybe next time they'll build in a safer location.

Good one. I lol'd.

/Nawlins?
//Tornado alley?
///San Fransisco?

 
ravenlore [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 09:16:45 AM  
And there's Moderate risk for severe weather today...The Cedar's starting to go down, but the Iowa's still rising.

/much love to the Corridor

 
skinink 2008-06-15 09:17:35 AM  
Looks like a whole bunch of those little plastic Monopoly game hotels, all bunched together.

 
doglover [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 09:18:22 AM  
Idiot builders skipped step 3!

How to Build a House:

Step 1 The Foundation
Step 2 The Frame
Step 3 The Anchor
Step 4 The Roof
Step 5 The Windows
Step 6 The Exterior
Step 7 The Interior

 
Apophenia 2008-06-15 09:20:09 AM  
Should that be "in" the Cedar River?

...or up the creek...

 
BalugaJoe 2008-06-15 09:20:16 AM  
I feel bad for these guys. At least they don't have looters like New Orleans.

 
alacoco 2008-06-15 09:21:40 AM  
I'd say something snarky, but that is terrible. Woulda coulda shoulda aside, these are real peoples lives.

 
Runningjoke 2008-06-15 09:22:51 AM  
row, row, row your punt gently down the stream, belts off, trousers down, life is but a dream

 
Akessamenos 2008-06-15 09:26:23 AM  
wow

 
Earpj [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 09:26:31 AM  
Jeez! That is really terrible! I feel so bad for these people. I was reading where one lady was told "Oh no, it's not a flood zone." So she didn't get flood insurance. Man that sucks!

Sometimes I'm glad I live in a desert.

 
psyon 2008-06-15 09:28:00 AM  
It's not as amazing as it seems. Those are house boats that used to be parked in Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids.

 
Is_What_It_Is 2008-06-15 09:29:01 AM  
Luckily for Bush this isn't a "chocolate city" or this would be all his fault.

 
tkohl 2008-06-15 09:30:34 AM  
Those are houseboats guys, they are supposed to float. They came from Ellis Park, upstream. We all thought they were going to knock down the railroad bridge...

//CR resident
///High & dry, luckily

 
dstanley 2008-06-15 09:39:26 AM  
dofus: Someone's almost managed to collect the whole set.

I laughed.

 
uptonogood 2008-06-15 09:41:37 AM  
ninetywt: Maybe next time they'll build in a safer location.

Most of Iowa does not flood. Rivers generally don't peak 30 feet above their norm. This is not one of those cases where the people should have seen it coming. This is one of those instances where nature decided to be a real coont. If you've missed it, the entire state is basically in a state of disaster; either flooding, potential for flooding, tornadoes, and even drought, as odd as that sounds.

 
nekom [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 09:43:31 AM  
dayum

 
cazman 2008-06-15 09:46:45 AM  
uptonogood: This is not one of those cases where the people should have seen it coming.

I beg to differ. This is what happens when you spend millions to beautify the riverfront by building concrete walls and pinching the flow of the river, it has nowhere to go but up.

Iowans learned nothing from 1993.

 
Zmog [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 09:49:16 AM  
Well, there goes the neighborhood.

 
basemetal [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 09:51:00 AM  
Looks like a Waterworld neighborhood.

 
scavenger 2008-06-15 09:52:21 AM  
Zmog: Well, there goes the neighborhood.

ha!!

 
Iron D 2008-06-15 09:53:11 AM  
Is_What_It_Is: Luckily for Bush this isn't a "chocolate city" or this would be all his fault.

Except that unlike N'Aulins, relief for Cedar Rapids has been quick and relatively efficient.

 
Ow My Balls 2008-06-15 09:53:27 AM  
Could you imagine looking at that photo and realizing one of the houses is yours? How traumatic. Especially if you grew up in it, etc.

Sorry to all of you dealing with this.

 
jenntegt 2008-06-15 09:53:49 AM  
Welcome to Iowa. Tornadoes destroyed two towns a couple weeks ago (a few miles from where I live). We get farking evacuated because the Cedar River decides to be a raging biatch. And then evacuated from where we were evacuated to. And then stranded. etc, etc, and then OH YEAH. There was another tornado last night.

fark. IOWA.

 
jenntegt 2008-06-15 10:00:17 AM  
cazman: Iowans learned nothing from 1993.

Iowa learned A LOT from 1993. This was a hell of a lot worse. Beat all of the records by insane margins. But in most cases, the only reason half the state wasn't destroyed was because of levees and other flood protection put up after 1993. The only reason most of the cities along the Cedar River, including Cedar Falls and Waterloo aren't destroyed are because their post-1993 levees held.

 
Barakku [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 10:00:28 AM  
HouseBOATS.

 
jenntegt 2008-06-15 10:01:39 AM  
Plus, the Iowa River hit the 500 year flood plain. Yeah. Odds of happening. Once in every 500 years.

 
TxTigger 2008-06-15 10:03:43 AM  
Wow... They've managed to collect the Rail Road and lots of Houses... I'm gonna stop playing now since the next time around I'll most likely have to mortgage Park Place.

 
Christi [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 10:05:43 AM  
Welcome to Iowa. Tornadoes destroyed two towns a couple weeks ago (a few miles from where I live). We get farking evacuated because the Cedar River decides to be a raging biatch. And then evacuated from where we were evacuated to. And then stranded. etc, etc, and then OH YEAH. There was another tornado last night.

And it's supposed to snow tomorrow!

/not really

 
kingfish2004 2008-06-15 10:07:49 AM  
Is_What_It_Is: Luckily for Bush this isn't a "chocolate city" or this would be all his fault.

Nice +1

 
clintp 2008-06-15 10:10:11 AM  
Is_What_It_Is: Luckily for Bush this isn't a "chocolate city" or this would be all his fault.

Except that unlike N'Aulins, relief for Cedar Rapids has been quick and relatively efficient.
And all of it State and Local: no biatching and whining about wanting Federal help in the immediate relief effort.

Of course, much of this will be declared a Federal Disaster Area (eligible for loans and whatnot) so the Feds will help out eventually. But Iowa (and others in the midwest) need to be held out as an example of self-reliance in the face of a disaster.

 
dko 2008-06-15 10:11:32 AM  
It's a BRIDGE...
HOUSE!!!

OWWWWWwwwWW


It's mighty mighty!

Just lettin' in all hang out.

 
dan_in_oakland 2008-06-15 10:15:09 AM  
Iron D

Except that unlike N'Aulins, relief for Cedar Rapids has been quick and relatively efficient
ly coordinated by the correct local authorities, who prepared their levees without massive amounts of corruption.

Added context for you.

 
TheDirtyNacho 2008-06-15 10:32:35 AM  
Earpj: Jeez! That is really terrible! I feel so bad for these people. I was reading where one lady was told "Oh no, it's not a flood zone." So she didn't get flood insurance. Man that sucks!

Sometimes I'm glad I live in a desert.


Problem with deserts is that they do get rain storms now and then, and since the land is not used to soaking up water, heavy flash floods occur.

And with climate change accelerating, we're already seeing a lot of previously low-rainfall areas receiving more, and moderate rainfall areas will begin to dry out.

There aren't too many places in the world where theres no kind of natural disaster potential.

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 10:34:36 AM  
TheDirtyNacho: There aren't too many places in the world where theres no kind of natural disaster potential.

curious: i wonder what the safest geographical area is, statistically speaking.

 
rssvss [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 10:34:57 AM  
Great Subby now i want a house boat....

 
Phil the SWO [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 10:37:11 AM  
Sammy Jenkins: Bush doesn't care about black poor people.

FTFY

 
Lt. Cheese Weasel 2008-06-15 10:38:05 AM  
So, is Cedar Rapids going to become a Chocolate City?

 
rssvss [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 10:38:12 AM  
FlashHarry: TheDirtyNacho: There aren't too many places in the world where theres no kind of natural disaster potential.

curious: i wonder what the safest geographical area is, statistically speaking.


Right where i live, no natural disasters in a lot of years...

 
buzzvert [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 10:48:15 AM  
In the case of these particular structures- marinas and other floating structures are built like light-frame barns or sheds, except that they float on either pontoons or (more commonly) blocks of styrofoam. They are tethered to the bottom of the body of water (and sometimes the shore) with steel cables attached to very large anchors (we used, for instance, old oil drums impaled with rebar, filled with cement). The other end of the cable is attached to a winch, which can be adjusted as water levels rise and fall- to a point.

When the water level gets too high or wind forces become too great, many structures like this run out of winch cable, or the anchor becomes dislodged, or in some cases, the cable snaps. At which point, these structures become boats and begin to go up the crick, sans paddle. The photo here shows a gaggle of these structures at a railroad bridge, as someone else mentioned here earlier.

During one severe thunderstorm, our family's marina saw 130 mph straight-line winds, popping 6 3/4" steel anchor cables. When they snapped, the sound was like a 12-gauge shotgun about 3x.

 
aureliawestlake 2008-06-15 11:06:39 AM  
http://cedarrapids.craigslist.org/rfs/720459081.html

 
mksmith 2008-06-15 11:26:42 AM  
We take our 5th-wheel up to the Midwest almost every year, around April-June, doing courthouse research (genealogy). We had intended to be in southeast & central Iowa by now. I'm almost glad gas is so expensive that we decided to pass on the trip this year.

/live in Katrina country

 
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