Both Good and Bad News

First the bad news; Cedar Rapids is still under water, and Tim Russert died of a heart attack early this afternoon. The "good" news is that the rivers through Des Moines have supposedly crested, and the water is supposed to be slowly going down. The trouble is that after each flood people keep moving back into the river bottom areas. I know that is where their homes and businesses are, and unless you move into the high ground on the very far west side of the metroplex you can expect to have a flood every so many years, but the routine of sandbagging and rescuing gets very expensive for whoever is going to have to pay the bills for all of it. It has been a very nice day today weatherwise, in spite of what is going on waterwise. This is the first night for a while that we have not had a storm roll into the region at about 9 p.m. On the far southeast side of DM water got into the Great Ape Preserve and is having to be pumped out. According to the local news the apes are alright. City and state govt. offices have had to move out of their riverbank complexes, and the art of getting getting from here to there in town is fucked up because most of the bridges in town are under water. Some day we will laught at all this. Ha ha. No we won't. It really is not funny. So, after this brief resume of Des Moine Flooded I am going to go to bed, and hopefully will have more to report next blogging. This situation is not over yet. You take care. Di di mau!