So, after a hectic weekend of a wedding (but without racing), we started off this week frantically trying to move everything from our friends' basement to their top floor. Their house is in the flood plaine and the Coralville Reservior is predicted to crest over the spillway and into the Iowa River at any moment. So, it light of this, we moved everything to higher ground in their house and then took about 4 truck loads of their most important things to a rental house they are planning on moving into later this week as countless car loads to another house they may be staying in in the mean time. They had originally thought it would be coming over last night at midnight, but that time came and went thank goodness and the water is still holding.
Today we hear from them that they are renting a truck and moving everything out of their house owing to the delay in the cresting of the spillway. We plan to go over and help them get all of their things in the truck this afternoon. You see because they live in the flood plaine they could not get flood insurance, so any damage that is incurred by the flood will not be covered. Luckily for them, they are renting the house. But in the last 24 hours, they have had to...find a place to stay, pack for short term, pack for long term, contemplate moving everything, organize moving everything, and come to terms with the fact that this home may not be livable once this is all said and done. In addition, they did all this with a 7 month old baby.
I am writing this to document the horrible disaster that is about to happen to Iowa City and to remind myself how thankful I am this is not happening to me. We hope to continue to do as much as we can for these friends of ours and for anyone else in the community that is in danger of losing everything.
I will post pictures of the flood as soon as I can.
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