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Save the date; WordCamp Portland will be held on September 27th, 2008 at CubeSpace.
WordCamp is a gathering of WordPress folks. Whether you consider yourself an enthusiast, developer, designer, marketer, or writer, WordCamp is for you. The event organizers are currently working out the details of the conference format and schedule; stay tuned to the […]
Satellite photographs of flooding in Southeast Iowa from the Des Moines Register show the differences in river water levels from 2007 to 2008. Specific satellite imagery is available on the DMR site for Cedar Rapids and Iowa City.
via the Des Moines Register
Tags: Cedar Rapids, flooding, iowa, Iowa City
Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man, Experts Say
Kamyar Enshayan, director of an environmental center at the University of Northern Iowa, suspects that this natural disaster wasn’t really all that natural. He points out that the heavy rains fell on a landscape radically reengineered by humans. Plowed fields have replaced tallgrass prairies. Fields […]
It is moments like this when I contemplate using an RSS client instead of a web-based service like Bloglines. “Bloglines is down temporarily. We will be back shortly.” They have been offline for quite a while now. Bloglines is not yet at the same level of unavailability as Twitter, but my RSS feeds are […]
Iowa Hydrologic Predictions update
Cleanup begins at Mother Mosque of America
Rents rising in Cedar Rapids
Race, Disaster and Comparative Suffering
University of Iowa flood update
Cedar Falls, Iowa + flooding
Columbus Junction, IA flooding photos
Recovery efforts in Columbus Junction
Iowa as “God’s country”
Oldest U.S. Mosque is in Iowa
Flooding in Burlington, Iowa
Police shoot hogs to save levees
Flooding + Road Damage in […]
The Advanced Hydrologic Predictions Service is terrific source for hydrologic information. Water levels in several Southeast Iowa communities are still higher than flood stage, but the floodwaters are receding.
Hydrologic prediction data from the Iowa River gauge at Columbus Junction, Iowa. The river waters are predicted to be above flood stage until June 26th.
Hydrologic prediction […]
Cleanup up from flood damage at the Cedar Rapids Mother Mosque from Richard Pratt.
Volunteer crews lent a hand Saturday, June 21, 2008, to clean up flood damage at the Mother Mosque of America in northwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Numerous books and artifacts at the mosque were destroyed when the Cedar River left its banks […]
Some owners of rental properties in Cedar Rapids, Iowa are citing supply and demand as a rationale for raising rental prices. Disgusting. The soul of capitalism is revealed within the midst of a tragic situation. Cedar Rapids, Iowa flood survivors’ need for housing is turned into the “market’s demand”. Heinous.
A post-flood housing shortage in […]
Tim Wise has written a new essay that critiques the racist rhetoric that’s being furiously spread around the interwebs in the wake of flooding in Iowa - “Adding Insult to Injury: Race, Disaster and the Calculus of Comparative Suffering.” It’s a deeper analysis that is very similar in context to my post on “Comparing […]
The Iowa Memorial Union on the campus of the University of Iowa is currently closed due to extensive flood damage. Floodwaters were 5 feet deep in the IMU. The university is pumping air into the building to help dry it out.
From: University of Iowa Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Lola Lopes -
Although the worst […]