It was hard not to think of the famous Johnny Cash flood song as the water kept rising along the Cedar River near my home and the office. Just two blocks from our offices Tuesday is where the sandbagging began. And it was a wild 20+ hours of watching a community come together in a single effort.
When the water crested Wednesday there was a colorful wall of sandbags, thousands of tired volunteers, and fortunately the water didn't come over flood walls. Unfortunately some homes in the flood plan in both Cedar Falls and Iowa we damaged or lost altogether.
The artist Paco Rosic who own a restaurant in Waterloo, Iowa (and who River Run has produced commercials and web videos for) fought around the clock to keep the flood water from damaging his building.
We were spared the damage that Cedar Rapids has experienced when water went as high as 10 feet in downtown buildings.
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