Greetings from Lake Iowa!
Okay, so it's not technically a lake, but you wouldn't know it to look at the overhead views. The whole state is flooding, since we have enough rivers that it looks like veins on a map. 55 of our 99 counties have been declared disaster areas, Homeland Security is here, FEMA is here, and reporters are everywhere.
I and my family are fine. The suburb I live in doesn't flood, since it has no rivers or lakes running through it. Thank goodness for small blessings. And the water supply for the metro is good, since after the floods of '93, then spent 10 million bucks upgrading the levees and stuff so the treatment plant looks like an island surrounded by a lake. If you want to see pictures and read things about what is going on, here are some links:
http://www.kcci.com/index.html
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
I will write more about these floods later, but right now I just wanted to ease the minds of those who were worrying.
