Me too! I think I remember there being a fishing tackle shop across the street from the A&W. I used to buy candy there when I was 7-8 years old. 25 years ago.
Damn if not for I-380, Cedar Rapids would have been completely impassable from east to west. I guess you could say I-380 was the bridge over troubled water here.
I was 21 at the time, this seriously was iowas katrina...I helped in Louisiana after Katrina, looked pretty much the same as cedar rapids...I helped gut Taylor school and then drove a pumper truck around cleaning the porta pottys...I went down to Oakville to pickup some toilets when our contract was ending and it looked like a bomb went off there
The amount of volunteers bagging sand for shitty corporations like Alliant Energy, yet still no-one got a discount on their utility bills is greed at its worst.
Lost our house to. We wanted to rebuild but since the house was 6 inches into the 100 year plane they considered the whole lot 100 year and we would have had to get rid of our basement. We had a huge backyard enough to move the house to the other side but city said no so we had to let them buy the house out and move. Fuck the city. That was a good neighborhood.
What was CR like before the floors hit where were you what were you doing when they hit I was in Des Moines IA I wasn't here when they hit I saw it on TV Kim
I pumped out the United Fire & casualty building downtown, led crews of 100-125 people in full PPE tearing out sewage in four buildings sixteen hours a day seven days a week in summer heat. Thanks to whoever bought me & my buddy lunch at Wendy’s one day, we’re from Chicago. Spent my 40th at Dancers.
I was a toddler but I still remember it. I remember walking to preschool with it down pouring and up to my knees I was wearing jeans and everyone was drying off inside I remember it like it was yesterday.
I miss A&W. I used to live a walking distance from Ellis Park and A&W.
Me too! I think I remember there being a fishing tackle shop across the street from the A&W. I used to buy candy there when I was 7-8 years old. 25 years ago.
Damn if not for I-380, Cedar Rapids would have been completely impassable from east to west. I guess you could say I-380 was the bridge over troubled water here.
Hahah True!
My first time seeing this. I am crying, remembering the horrible damage but even more, the wonderful people who helped us! Awesome video!!
Whoa, at the clean up part I literally smelled this video. Weird flashback.
I was 5 at the time but I remember walking around to inspect the town with my mom and dad and I saw people in boats sitting outside of their homes.
I was 28 very depressing time. We survived.
Was in the Alliant Tower when this happened on this morning. Waist deep in water when we left.
I was 21 at the time, this seriously was iowas katrina...I helped in Louisiana after Katrina, looked pretty much the same as cedar rapids...I helped gut Taylor school and then drove a pumper truck around cleaning the porta pottys...I went down to Oakville to pickup some toilets when our contract was ending and it looked like a bomb went off there
I tried to gut Taylor school but the smell was so bad I only lasted a day!!
The amount of volunteers bagging sand for shitty corporations like Alliant Energy, yet still no-one got a discount on their utility bills is greed at its worst.
lost our childhood home in this...sad. very sad
my house was one of the first to get flooded.
@@brandonking5111 yep ours too...corner of "O" ave and 4th st NW the river was our backyard/play ground...why do I keep coming back here??
Lost our house to. We wanted to rebuild but since the house was 6 inches into the 100 year plane they considered the whole lot 100 year and we would have had to get rid of our basement. We had a huge backyard enough to move the house to the other side but city said no so we had to let them buy the house out and move. Fuck the city. That was a good neighborhood.
I was only 1 when this happened so I don't even remember anything I just heard about it
What was CR like before the floors hit where were you what were you doing when they hit I was in Des Moines IA I wasn't here when they hit I saw it on TV Kim
I was 24 at that time..seeing everything was a nightmare.
I was 10 years old when I lost my house to the flood.
I was just born when it happ its sad
I was in this flood
I was 1 and I live in cedar Rapids what did you do when the flood started
God bless you
@@yashaunsbestie4739 same I lived in cr but not in the flood zone
I pumped out the United Fire & casualty building downtown, led crews of 100-125 people in full PPE tearing out sewage in four buildings sixteen hours a day seven days a week in summer heat. Thanks to whoever bought me & my buddy lunch at Wendy’s one day, we’re from Chicago. Spent my 40th at Dancers.
More like “like water over a troubled bridge 🎼 “
Even though I was born in 2012 I see that this has to be a natural disaster
Damn i was four
My brother almost died in this flood
I was only 2 when that flood happened
I was a toddler but I still remember it. I remember walking to preschool with it down pouring and up to my knees I was wearing jeans and everyone was drying off inside I remember it like it was yesterday.
@@sunshinesparkle3565 I was in a traffic jam on the bridge..the hawkers
Gawkers
I was 21.
I was 30
I was five.
same
Rip cedar rapids after the flood Africa and Chicago moved in!
so say