I read about Block by Block today at KCRG.com, Cedar Rapids’ ABC station. This group is organizing former/current neighbors by block to help rebuild after the devestating 2008 floods (June 2008 archive link on this blog.) After dealing with my own flood, I understand how hard it can be to regroup. Block by Block is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cedar Rapids’
A group that definately needs holiday and year-round giving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cedar Rapids, flooding, holiday donation on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saint Patrick’s rebirth
Posted in genealogy, tagged Cedar Rapids, flooding, genealogy on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
June 2008: U. S. Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Don Smith of St. Louis pilots a boat past St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids during the Cedar River flooding (the river is two or three blocks to the right). This is what St. Patrick’s looked like last June. I saw this picture and [...]
Helping Cedar Rapids…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cedar Rapids on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Salvation Army donations: http://www.tsacedarrapids.org Salvation Army P.O. Box 8056, Cedar Rapids, IA 52408-8056 I’m making a donation today.
Flood info starting to come in
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cedar Rapids, Vinton on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Cedar Rapids main library is closed indefinately. The water went up four shelf levels on the main floor, but the the librarian said most of the books were ok. The Vinton courthouse has reopened. I haven’t seen anything about its internal condition. I suspect the basement got water, but I think the actual river [...]
What happens now?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cedar Rapids on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What will happen to Cedar Rapids? Who could have ever dreamed it would be looking like New Orleans after Katrina?! I suppose a river can always flood, but it always seemed to me when I went over the bridges that there was a lot of room between the bridge and the water. I’m sure in [...]
It’s the year of the river in Cedar Rapids…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cedar Rapids, flooding, Vinton on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow, I don’t think people there are celebrating the river right now. It looks pretty bad. The library is barely a block from the river and it’s evacuated. Buildings east of the river in downtown are getting hit. Power’s out. Boy, do I feel for everyone there. I also feel for the people of Vinton, [...]
Worried…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cedar Rapids, genealogy on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I live in Chicago, but for the past eight years or so, my “other” hometown city has been Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Eight years ago, I really started working with the genealogy information I received as a teenager from my great aunts on my dad’s side of the family. And one of the first things I [...]
