[Oe List ...] Iowa floods
James Wiegel
jfwiegel at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 13 19:19:20 EDT 2008
I think, Nancy, that there was a ToP trainer, Ester Mae Cox, in your library for internet access this afternoon . . .
Jim Wiegel
n.trask at mchsi.com wrote:
Hello everybody -
We are fine so far in Winterset, Iowa. We are located in SW Iowa, so approx.
80 miles from the Scout camp that had a hard hit from tornado. Several
tornadoes have been nearby, but we haven't had a direct hit, but the rain has
been non-stop. Our hearts are breaking for area farmers who have lost their
crops in the soggy fields, some of whom never got to plant in the first place
because it has been such a soggy spring. And of course our hearts are
breaking for Parkersburg, Iowa, which was flattened, & the Scout camp.
Cedar Rapids Public Library is full of about 4 feet of water at this time, &
one of their main hospitals closed yesterday. Numerous buildings at
University of Iowa (Iowa City) are closed, including the main library. Parts
of Des Moines are being evacuated. Displaced people are seeking internet &
email, so the rest of us librarians are doing what we can to accommodate. I
know there will be a lot of clean-up required from the floods, & we are hoping
that the levees hold. In Des Moines, they are saying that if a levee breaks,
there will be only a few minutes before the water would be at least up to your
neck, so they have been requesting voluntary evacuations all day.
Thanks for thinking of us in the Iowa heartlands.
Nancy Trask
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From: George Holcombe
To: ICA LIST SERVE , Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: [Oe List ...] Flood Victims
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:03:00 +0000
> Any news from our Iowa colleagues and others in the flooded areas?
>
> George Holcombe
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