David Howell Studios

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!

Water rose up way too close to us earlier. It went back down later but now the skies have just opened up again and it’s raining hard, hailing on us and a tornado warning. We are just not catching any breaks here in Cedar Rapids at all today.

Woke to a really heavy rain storm this morning. The power went out. That meant the sump pump stopped. Water coming into the basement. With no power in the house, I decided to take a walk out on the golf course to see where all the water was coming from.

Just a short little grouping of videos today.

I had to do some work down in one of the evacuation areas in Cedar Rapids. Just after I shot these scenes, they closed the bridges to get into downtown Cedar Rapids. It made for a hasty retreat south of the city.

We are still getting massive amounts of rain here in Iowa. It feels like we can’t go more than 2 days without a siren going off. It will be nice once the threat of drowning in the middle of the street is gone.