Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/13

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Subject: [Leica] Safe and out of the flood area
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 23:47:43 2008

Hi Chris,

Just one hell of a lot of water.  ;-)   Who knows that is as good as any 
excuse/reason.  I'm sure it has somthing to do with all the crazy weather 
around the world this year.

I'm glad we are not home right now, but we do have friends in the flooded 
areas of town, and have offered our house to any of them who need it, but 
luckily they all tell us they are well and have places to stay.  Our 
neighbors are keeping us appraised on our house.

gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Christopher Birchenhall" <crbirchenhall@googlemail.com>
>
> Gene
> 
> My best wishes go to all those suffering from these floods. Are they
> being attributed to global warming?
> 
> Chris
> 
> 2008/6/14  <grduprey@mchsi.com>:
> > Just a quick note to everyone.  It seems we chose the right time to take 
> > our 
> vacation and leave Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  The flood is at 34 feet as of 
> today and 
> they are expecting it to go even higher by Sunday.  Fortunately our house 
> is not 
> in the affected area at this time.  Also our house is on top of a hill and 
> pretty safe so far.  We have had contact with our neighbors and all is 
> right at 
> this time.  Unfortunately for the center an southern part of the city, all 
> is 
> not well, and is currently under 10 to 30 feet of water, depending on 
> where they 
> are.  The library is a total loss as none of the books and materials were 
> able 
> to be saved.  All of downtown is under water, and both hospitals are 
> flooded and 
> have been evacuated.  They are telling us it is the worst flood on record 
> for 
> the entire state.
> >
> > Gene
> >
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