I just turned on the noon TV news........the scenes of the flooding in the heart of Cedar Rapids are stunning. They're calling it a 500-year flood, now! (Update: My husband says that is an insurance concept meaning there is a 1-in-500 chance that a flood of this size will happen in a given year. But, the newspeople keep calling it "a 500-year flood". Update #2........Ok, the newscasters finally explained it this way: A 100-year flood has 1% chance of occurring in any given year.........and a 500-year flood has a 0.2% chance of the same. This current flood in CR is deemed the latter, and covers what is designated as the 500-year floodplain. I figured you would be totally interested in having this explained to you.)
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We don't get TV stations from Des Moines, but I'm sure things are bad there, too.
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