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**vipluka** · 06-15-2008, 06:37 AM

Thank you piano.

It's quite sad in a way because because I am around two and half hours away from Cedar Rapids/Des Moines, there is nothing I can do except watch and pray that this ends. My college campus is less than 10 minutes from downtown Des Moines so knowing that something like this can happen, so fast, is starting to scare me. And like some people have said in this thread, I fear that this going to happen again ... unfortunately.

This afternoon, hundreds of students from U of I (University of Iowa) and volunteers were in Iowa City sandbagging to keep river water from entering their campus. It's comments like this that really give people who don't live there a sense of what's happening:

“We should be done by 5 this afternoon, and then all we can do is wait,” Mason said today. “We will have done all we can.”

Let's hope this ends soon...

06-15-2008, 06:37 AM	#15
vipluka Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 380 Senior Member	Thank you piano. It's quite sad in a way because because I am around two and half hours away from Cedar Rapids/Des Moines, there is nothing I can do except watch and pray that this ends. My college campus is less than 10 minutes from downtown Des Moines so knowing that something like this can happen, so fast, is starting to scare me. And like some people have said in this thread, I fear that this going to happen again ... unfortunately. This afternoon, hundreds of students from U of I (University of Iowa) and volunteers were in Iowa City sandbagging to keep river water from entering their campus. It's comments like this that really give people who don't live there a sense of what's happening: “We should be done by 5 this afternoon, and then all we can do is wait,” Mason said today. “We will have done all we can.” Let's hope this ends soon...
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