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The Nadas
Listen to “Feels Like Home”
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I’ve been listening to the Nadas for quite a while. At least 12 years of auditory enjoyment. I remember seeing them perform at the OP in Cedar Falls, Iowa while I was a student at the University of Northern Iowa. I’ve seen them perform at venues in Iowa, in Chicago, IL and at a friends wedding in Minnesota. I’ve watched these guys grow up while I myself was maturing. When the inevitable occurs and the Nadas retire/break-up, I’m going to be bummed out. They have been a musical constant in my eclectic musical collection. I wonder if they’ll ever make it out to Oregon for a gig?
Listen to “Blue Lights”
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Listen to “Coming Home”
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Flooding + Iowa + Potential Cause
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 have been meticulously drained with underground pipes. Streams and creeks have been straightened. Most of the wetlands are gone. Flood plains have been filled and developed.
“We’ve done numerous things to the landscape that took away these water-absorbing functions,” he said. “Agriculture must respect the limits of nature.”
[S]ome Iowans who study the environment suspect that changes in the land, both recently and over the past century or so, have made Iowa’s terrain not only highly profitable but also highly vulnerable to flooding.
via the Washington Post
Iowa flood roundup
- 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 Iowa
- Comparing Iowa to New Orleans
- Columbus Junction – flood recovery
- Aerial photos of Iowa flooding
- Iowa Road Closures
- Iowa floods
- Flooding + University of Iowa
- Photos + Flooding + Columbus Junction
- Columbus Junction flooding news
Cedar Falls, Iowa + flooding
I noticed this photograph on the Flickr set of the Red Cross’s Midwestern flood relief efforts. The photo provides an idea of how much water was flowing around Cedar Falls, Iowa on June 10, 2008.
Sandbagging efforts in Cedar Falls kept the raging waters of the Cedar River from flooding the downtown area. The sign is located in an area that is usually above water. My guess is that the water level in the photo is somewhere between 2 to 3 ft. high.
I was curious as to what the text on the sign said. Fortunately, a hi-resolution version of the original photograph had been uploaded and it was easy to discern the text on the marker.
By the way, I think it’s important to note that critical thinking can still exist within a discourse of support…just wanted to give everyone a heads up as I am going to delve into some thinking that is critical of a historical marker that needs some serious editing.
