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
Tag: Cedar-Rapids
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
Cleanup begins at Mother Mosque of America
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 earlier this month. The Cedar Rapids center is the oldest mosque in the United States.
Rents rising in Cedar Rapids
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 Cedar Rapids is driving up rent for everyone as displaced families look for places to live.
Some 3,900 homes in town were damaged by the flood. Many continue to be uninhabitable. In Iowa City and Coralville, about 800 homes were evacuated.
Josh Pierce and his wife and three children had been looking for a house to rent for about a month. They’ve outgrown their small apartment in northeast Cedar Rapids, where they’ve lived for about a year.
A home at 938 38th St. SE caught their eye and on June 9, the Monday before the flood, it was listed at $645 per month by Equity Realtors, a company owned by Bob Miell.
A week later, the same house was listed online at $845 per month. Pierce called Miell’s office.
“‘Supply and demand’ — that’s all they said,” Pierce said.
Miell did not respond to requests for an interview.
Oldest U.S. Mosque is in Iowa
The oldest mosque in the United States is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It only took several days of flooding and countless hours reading news reports for me to find this out. The mosque was dedicated in February of 1934. I love it when I learn something new about Iowa’s history. I lived in Iowa for 23 years and never knew about the Mother Mosque of America.
The oldest standing mosque in the United States is one of the many structures in Cedar Rapids damaged by flooding. Imam Taha Tawil is the executive director for the Mother Mosque of America. He was allowed access to the building Tuesday for the first time since it was flooded last week.
“There is a sadness, a hurt in my heart, because this mosque is like part of my family,” Tawil said. The mosque is one of many museums and historic buildings in Cedar Rapids hit by the floodwaters. “When I look around, I see the Czech Museum, the African American Museum, the Mother Mosque,” Tawil said, “and I said ‘flood doesn’t know color, flood doesn’t know race or religion or tradition. Flood is like death…it doesn’t distinguish.'”
via Radio Iowa