The water is going down in Cedar Rapids, IA after the largest flood in the state’s history. You can now see the three downtown bridges above water rather than them being completely under water. Driving on I380 this morning, going to work, I could not believe my eyes when I looked towards the bridges and the streets of downtown. There is debris everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE!!!!! There are huge logs, railroad ties, bricks, glass, peoples personal belongings, household items, displaced cars, displaced homes, and much much more scattered all over downtown. The picture to the right shows a glimpse of what downtown Cedar Rapids looks like. This photo came from GazetteOnline.com. I think that it is going to take quite awhile for Cedar Rapids to get cleaned up. But as this city has done throughout this whole process, I am sure that everyone will come together and help each other out with the clean up efforts.

Click here to look at more pictures that were taken Sunday 6/15/08 of downtown Cedar Rapids.

Click here to look at pictures of tenants returning to their homes but only for a short period of time. Tenants were only given about 10 minutes to grab what they can carry out of their homes on Sunday 6/15/08. Displaced tenants thought that they would be able to get back into their homes today, Monday 6/16/08, but now the City of Cedar Rapids is not letting that happen. The homes are too dangerous for their owners to enter and all homes have to be checked out before people can re-enter them.

You may also click on any of the below links to look at any pictures from beginning to end of the Flood of 2008. All photos that you will see in the below links come from GazetteOnline.com.

Filed under: Flooding/Storms, Iowa, Weather