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Post by sekhmet on Aug 27, 2020 6:46:06 GMT -5
Hugs Mark and Dub.
Good to hear from you Evan. Would like to hear from you today. Bloody hurricane.
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Post by Village Idiot on Aug 29, 2020 21:29:58 GMT -5
I heard on the radio that Cedar Rapids lost 65% of its tree canopy in the storm. I would guess more.
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Post by Marty on Aug 29, 2020 22:50:12 GMT -5
I wouldn't doubt it. Most of it's potable water too.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Aug 30, 2020 11:21:39 GMT -5
I heard on the radio that Cedar Rapids lost 65% of its tree canopy in the storm. I would guess more. Never cared for canapés. Prefer more substantial food.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Aug 30, 2020 19:21:32 GMT -5
As a message of hope, I posit this. If Millring can make an Esteban sound good, anything is possible.
Mike
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Post by amanajoe on Sept 4, 2020 18:26:13 GMT -5
For those of you wondering what it can be like:
They had just moved their headquarters to this block of industrial suites.
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Post by Hobson on Sept 5, 2020 14:15:01 GMT -5
Joe, I had seen that video previously. A young guy who was building up a business.
I've been wondering why the derecho damage hardly got any news coverage. Are there still a lot of people with no electricity? Does it still look like a war zone?
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Post by theevan on Sept 5, 2020 15:02:08 GMT -5
Joe, I had seen that video previously. A young guy who was building up a business. I've been wondering why the derecho damage hardly got any news coverage. Are there still a lot of people with no electricity? Does it still look like a war zone? I'm wondering the same for Hurricane Laura. there are still around 500,000 without power. Where Wendy's sister is they were quoting "several months" before they'd come online again. Although some peripheral areas are just being restored. Nursing homes, hospitals, all evacuated to here, there and yon. One of the three electric utilities estimated they had 5150 power poles down or broken. I forget how many miles of lines they said were down. That's just one of three. I guess there are more pressing matters to report.
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Post by amanajoe on Sept 5, 2020 19:36:12 GMT -5
Joe, I had seen that video previously. A young guy who was building up a business. I've been wondering why the derecho damage hardly got any news coverage. Are there still a lot of people with no electricity? Does it still look like a war zone? Sorry, didn’t see this. I believe there are a couple of hundred still without power. Many of the outlying areas are running on temporary lines until permanent poles can be put in place. All of the side streets north of me in Cedar Rapids are piled high with broken trees, branches, and busted power poles / equipment. Friends of ours were told that they wouldn’t get any help from contractors until after the first of the year. Now that the insurance isn’t going to help on the damage to our trees and house, I spent the afternoon taking apart our large maple to get it to a size that is manageable to cut down.
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Post by Hobson on Sept 6, 2020 12:09:26 GMT -5
Certainly a bad situation in Cedar Rapids. Hoping that at least the essential repairs can be made before winter. Joe, I don't know the insurance story, but hope that you can get things into some state of normalcy.
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Sept 12, 2020 22:24:59 GMT -5
@dub martin (JSG)
How are you doing, buddy?
ETA: I can’t get the “mention” thing to trigger... how about you just chime in when you see this, Mark?
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Dub update
Sept 13, 2020 10:38:03 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Resolve on Sept 13, 2020 10:38:03 GMT -5
Sending caring thoughts!
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 16, 2020 19:56:26 GMT -5
I was able to escape zoom meetings spend my day in Cedar Rapids, as school will finally be starting there next week. I had not been there since the Covid thing started or since the storm, and all I can say is wow. I stopped the car and took this picture. The sad thing is that I could have stopped about anywhere during my travels and taken that exact same picture. That is what both sides of many streets look like, the curbs lined up with brush, tall and wide. It took me forever to get from one school to the next (For Dub's reference, from Grant Wood Elementary to Harding Middle School), as the roads were narrow and many were closed. Just crazy. The Derecho was just as bad in Vinton in 2011 as it was in Cedar Rapids this year, except for one major thing: A town of 5,000 cleans up a little quicker than a town of 150,000. Cedar Rapids has a long row to how. But I also saw something cool and amusing. Actually I saw it in two different yards:
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Post by Dub on Sept 16, 2020 20:27:27 GMT -5
Yes, that’s what it looks like anywhere there used to be trees.
I remember seeing Vinton immediately after their 2011 derecho and it does indeed look familiar. Fiddlerina and I were up to play a show we had booked. It was devastation everywhere. What one doesn’t see in Cedar Rapids that we did see along the edges of Vinton is entire rows of windbreak trees broken off as one just two feet from the ground.
What you don’t see in Todd’s picture is that before the derecho you wouldn’t have seen blue sky in that same picture. Maybe a glint here and there but no expanse of sky.
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 16, 2020 20:32:34 GMT -5
Like I did in Vinton years ago, I drove right past my turn to get to the middle school, then had a brief moment of wondering where I was. Things don't look at all like they used to, and one has to pay attention when going anywhere. I can state from experience it's going to take a few years to adapt one's visual memory to the new reality.
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Post by Marty on Sept 17, 2020 12:07:48 GMT -5
I talked to Mark and Joy via FaceTime the other day. They are doing fine now that they have power. Mark had good color to his face and seemed cheery.
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Post by theevan on Sept 17, 2020 13:06:24 GMT -5
Wendy's sister in Moss Bluff got her power back on! 19 days without electricity & water. Others in the area will wait a good bit longer.
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Post by Hobson on Sept 17, 2020 13:58:42 GMT -5
Whatever normal is will still be a long way off, but good to know that there is progress on all fronts.
VI, I need one of those campaign signs. Had not seen it before. And that's all that I'll say about politics in this thread.
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 17, 2020 17:37:02 GMT -5
Wendy's sister in Moss Bluff got her power back on! 19 days without electricity & water. Others in the area will wait a good bit longer. What a bad deal down there. Were they effected by Sally? I hope not. Looking at all of those potential things going on in the Atlantic, it's got to be a bit nerve-wracking for them.
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Post by theevan on Sept 18, 2020 4:06:57 GMT -5
Wendy's sister in Moss Bluff got her power back on! 19 days without electricity & water. Others in the area will wait a good bit longer. What a bad deal down there. Were they effected by Sally? I hope not. Looking at all of those potential things going on in the Atlantic, it's got to be a bit nerve-wracking for them. No effect from Sally. For them.
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