After the Flood: Photos from Iowa City
posted by Tim Nafziger on 06/23/08 at 02:06 AMLast week on Thursday, Charletta and I began hearing from her family about the devastation in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City as the Iowa River and the Cedar River crested. This weekend Charletta and I visited Iowa and I saw a few scenes from the aftermath of the flooding. I've never seen a flood large enough to warrant sand bags before, so even though the waters are far below their crest, it was quite striking for me.
Charletta's brother Stewart told us about his experience sandbagging late one evening in Iowa city as the rains poured down and the river roared by. Today what remains are mounds and mounds of sandbags in what otherwise seems an ordinary urban settings:
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Iowa River at University of Iowa
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Sandbags outside gas station
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pond in front of Hills Bank
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Hills Bank sandbags
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Hills Bank
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Aldis
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Closed Street
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Tim Nafziger is a activist, writer, organizer and web developer. He lives in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago with his wife Charletta where he attends Living Water Community Church. Recently, he helped to start the Young Anabaptist Radicals blog. For more about his life, read his first blog post.
These pictures are really helpful! It's hard for me to imagine life in Iowa with these floods.