National / World Politics 25 Jun 2008 06:50 am
We Got Company – updated again
06/19 – Grabbed and hosted from the NY Times (I’m sure they won’t mind helping us poor water logged Iowans) but lookie here – our candidate with THE Candidate. Smile MMM! Both W and McCain were in Cedar Rapids today and W went to Iowa City.
I’ll write on this page for a while. Water is down everywhere but the roads are so damaged they’re impassable. Surprisingly, Interstate 80 is open so we can get around. All the east west roads are damaged enough that they are still blocked. Bridges are damaged too, they say it will be a week before we’ll know more. A lot of live stock is also being killed because of the flooding.
I have a trip tentatively scheduled to travel to Texas in early July or August, friends say once you get west of Des Moines roads are fine and unaffected by flooding (normal travel is west to Kansas City and south to Dallas on I-35 then on to Houston).
There is a “gravel pit” where everyone gets rocks around here that I’ve heard will take 6 months to drain and reopen. Gravel needed will have to be sent from somewhere else.
W meets with former Governor Bob Ray, and his wife Billie. Gov. Ray has been very visible in the last weeks, I’ve met him at two events and talked to him. A real favorite of mine.
more pictures here.
Sunday June 22 – the Mississippi isn’t going down very fast and the creeks appear to be back filling… They never over flowed their banks in town but are close now – and – the forecast is for rain most of next week. :::sigh::: I had lunch on the river front today and the water engulfing the clam shell statue is only a 12-18 inches lower than a week ago.
None of the roads have opened around here but we can get around if time allows. One road I usually take to the Interstate won’t be open for some time. A trip to Mt. Pleasant on Saturday took twice the time – but we got there.
I’m concentrating on work, getting ready for a trip to Texas and the State Republican Convention, rescheduled after the flood.
Busy Month – we don’t need more rain.
6/25 – this is going to be a very busy week for me – trying to get the MMM campaign organized here for the July 4 celebration any way – get caught up at work and ready for my trip to Texas - you won’t hear much from me.
As this point we’re not getting much of the forecasted rain, so creeks are down again – I haven’t checked the Mississippi and probably won’t until the weekend. One other roads south of us opened up yesterday…
State Representative Jeff Kaufmann inspects the damage to one of our main county roads that needs to be rebuilt.
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on 20 Jun 2008 at 10:47 pm 1.Libra Girl said …
Still sorry for all you are going through. And I feel bad about the cattle — all of it must be very difficult. I can’t help but think of Katrina too and see such differences about how you Hawkeyes do what needs to be done and don’t whine about it. You’ve rolled up your sleeves and have helped yourself as much as humanely possible. A good example for all of us – the rest of the country. And where, pray tell, is Sen. Obama?