David Howell Studios

It’s been a really hard year for Iowans.

Beatings from tornados and floods over the past few months have really taken their toll.

In Cedar Rapids, our Freedom Festival, where the majority of us go to watch fireworks and celebrate July 4th every year had to be cancelled this year.

CBS 2 News and the Kernels teamed up to celebrate the 4th of July and raise money for flood victims.

I had moment of free time while the morning show was on so I thought I would give you an extremely quick tour of the news station where I work.

This is in no way a full tour of the entire station and I don’t think I am giving away any insider trade secrets showing this video.

A quick little tour around some of the flood damaged area (Ellis Road) here in Cedar Rapids.

A new career opportunity presented itself over the weekend all because of this little site

We have been given notice here in Cedar Rapids that we have about a day and a half of water left before it will be gone. Without conserving the water we are using and restrict the use to consumption only, it could be sooner. Noticed this morning that our sump pump was expelling an enormous amount of water ever half hour from the basement. Hooked up the hose outside to capture that water to use for flushing the toilet and, after boiling, to wash with.

If you are visiting my site and you live in Cedar Rapids, please do your part and help with conserving water.

*UPDATE* Huge thanks goes to the BBC for writing an article and posting one of my flood videos on their site!