I am in the Cedar Rapids area and have been downtown a few times in the past few days. I was only a few months old during the flood of '93 and don't know much about it. But I know that what is happening now is much worse than '93. All of downtown CR is flooded. I think that every business downtown has water on their first floor. Words can't describe how bad things are downtown.

They are saying there is close to $740 million in damage so far in Cedar Rapids

Thankfully, our house is far from the flooding and the only thing we've had to do is cut back our water use to drinking only, so no showers.

Here a link to a site with pictures of the damage

http://www.gazetteonline.com/