{"id":88,"date":"2008-06-14T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/06\/14\/flood-of-2008-second-report\/"},"modified":"2008-06-14T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T20:11:01","slug":"flood-of-2008-second-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/06\/14\/flood-of-2008-second-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood of 2008 &#8211; Second Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flood crested yesterday at 31.1 feet.  I was out taking pictures but my camera ran out of batteries before I could finish up.  I had borrowed it from my friend, Ernie Rairdin, and had to return it to him to get the batteries charged.  As it turns out he was out with his son photographing the flood from an airplane.  You&#8217;ll see some of the views below.  They are just amazing.  I went over to his house and borrowed his camera again today but the weather has just turned bad and I think I&#8217;m unlikely to get any shots in the rain.  I have not yet been across the river to the West side to take any pictures.  I-380 is the only route across the Cedar River for miles and miles and miles.  To get to Iowa City from here you have to contend with both the Cedar and the Iowa rivers.  That means to go those short 30 miles you have to take a 281 mile detour, up to Waterloo, West to I-35, South to Des Moines and then east back to Iowa City.  As you can imagine, traffic on the I-380 bridge is bumper-to-bumper practically all the time.  So, here are some of the views.<\/p>\n<h3>Aerial photos by Ernie Rairdin:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Looking north\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSC01632Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" \/><br \/>Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, looking north<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Looking west\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSC01668Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" \/><br \/>Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, looking almost due west<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Timecheck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSC01574Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" \/><br \/>Timecheck neighborhood, Cedar Rapids, Iowa<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Looking northeast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSC01639Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" \/><br \/>Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, looking northeast<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Looking west\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSC01672Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><br \/>Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, looking west<\/p>\n<p>I had to reduce the pictures for the web. You should see them at full screen.<\/p>\n<h3>Here are some of my ground-level shots.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"12th Ave. SE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSC00193Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><br \/>Folk historians documenting the flood of 2008, 12th Ave. SE, eight blocks east of the river<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Metro High School\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSC00217Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><br \/>Metro High School, nine blocks east of the river<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1st Ave looking west\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSCN1141Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><br \/>1st Ave East looking west, four blocks east of the river<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Art Museum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSCN1142Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><br \/>The Art Museum, five blocks east of the river<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mercy Hospital\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSCN1150Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><br \/>Mercy Hospital, 10 blocks east of the river<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flotsam and jetsom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSCN1173Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" \/><br \/>Typical flotsam and jetsom<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Central Post Office\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/DSCN1181Web.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" \/><br \/>The central post office, eight blocks east of the river<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flood crested yesterday at 31.1 feet. I was out taking pictures but my camera ran out of batteries before I could finish up. I had borrowed it from my friend, Ernie Rairdin, and had to return it to him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/06\/14\/flood-of-2008-second-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily_life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}