5:25pm
Today I write from Iowa City. Home of the University of Iowa and if I remember correctly one hell of a party school. That’s just what I heard.
The campus smells like a pig farm.
Seriously, I am not kidding with you. Anyone who has ever been to a pig farm will understand. But, for those of you wondering, let me explain.
You see, a pig farm is usually in a rural, less traveled region ... read more
I've covered most of the big floods and every major hurricane of the past 25 years and my experience is that despite our best efforts, the coverage never fully conveys how bad it is.
We can give you the numbers, like the 9 square miles and 1300 blocks of Cedar Rapids under water. We can broadcast a live tour of a flood victim's house as we did today. Or, like we did earlier this week along the ... read more
6:48 p.m.
I am standing at the front of my vehicle, laptop on the hood of the car; mosquitoes are swarming me as I swat them away and the sound of clean up in downtown Cedar Rapids is deafening. There are three guys about twenty feet away tossing drenched sandbags into the back of a pick-up truck as a generator pumps water out of their business. They own a gift card shop, looked like it was nice ... read more
This is my first blog.
Blog, who came up with that name, blog, blogging, blogger.
Anyway, natural disasters are tough stories. Hard to navigate, hard to be fully accurate and extremely easy to blow out of proportion. The weather events in the Midwest may have real influence on the price of food, American exporting, railroad shipping and not to mention truck shipping because virtually all the ... read more
They're calling this a 500 year flood. I also covered the 1993 Mississippi flooding, which was also called the 500 year flood.
My understanding of a 500 year flood is that it comes once every 500 years. Not sure who is doing the arithmetic but something does not compute. I talked to the mayor of Muscatine, Iowa, Dick O'Briden, about this today as I stood hip deep in floodwater in downtown ... read more
June 18, 2008 09:09 PM EDT
It Smells...Like a Pig Farm
5:25pm Today I write from Iowa City. Home of the University of Iowa and if I remember correctly one hell of a party school. That’s just what I heard. The campus smells like a pig farm. Seriously, I am not kidding with you. Anyone who has ever been to a pig farm will understand. But, for those of you wondering, let me explain. You see, a pig farm is usually in a rural, less traveled region ... read more
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