In message <[log in to unmask]>, Craig Lalley 
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>I don't know why the main stream media has ignored the events of Cedar Rapids.
>
>They were so eager to talk about the bodies rotting in the streets of 
>New Orleans, and the murders at the Superdome. 
>
>Yet nary a word about how Cedar Rapids and Iowa City survived.  Have 
>been there and seen it first hand, it was a lot worse than I have seen 
>on the news. 
>
>Livestock farmers had to abandon their herds.
>
>http://gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008621301923
>
>I guess people aren't interested in good news.
>
>-Craig

I have seen nothing at all about Cedar Rapids in the UK press or on TV. 
If it wasn't for this List, I'd probably not even know it had happened.

As you might know (if your media covered it), we had major flooding here 
in Gloucestershire last July/August; you couldn't drink the water as the 
pumping station had been contaminated by floodwater/sewage, and we had 
bowsers on every street corner, and bottled water for drinking being 
distributed in car parks and at supermarkets.

We came within a hairsbreadth of losing all power when the water stopped 
a few inches below the flood defences of the local power station; word 
was that if that had happened, the Army was going to come in and make a 
mandatory evacuation of everyone.

So it was pretty serious, and you might have seen something about it; 
certainly the press and TV over here covered it in great detail.

But Cedar Rapids, from the links and pictures you've posted, looks a 
great deal worse.

And yet, not a peep about it. How odd.

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Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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