And that will not flush the turds from the swamp lands.   The tree of liberty 
needs watering, and rain will not do it

clay



> On Sep 27, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes 
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
> DC could get up to 7" of rain between tomorrow night and Saturday morning.
> Yikes!
> 
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
>> I was hearing that on the radio, we went through that here in SC just a
>> year ago.  No fun.
>> 
>> --FT
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/27/16 2:46 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
>> 
>>> 'It's crunch time in Cedar Rapids,' mayor says before floodsPublished:
>>> Tuesday, September 27, 2016
>>> 
>>> The Cedar River today is expected to reach its highest level in almost a
>>> decade, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is preparing for major floods.
>>> 
>>> Ten miles of temporary flood barricades and a quarter-million sandbags
>>> have
>>> been set up by emergency crews, and media reports said they seem to be
>>> working so far.
>>> 
>>> Rising water seemed to be slowing last night, with some of it reaching
>>> sandbags and barriers in various areas.
>>> 
>>> Cedar Rapids — Iowa's second-largest city — is expecting its Cedar River
>>> to
>>> crest at 23 feet this afternoon.
>>> 
>>> The river's record cresting level was 31 feet in 2008, when 5,400 homes
>>> and
>>> 700 businesses in a 10-square-mile area were flooded.
>>> 
>>> Today's projected floods have put as many as 5,800 homes and businesses at
>>> risk. Schools are staying closed until tomorrow, and Mayor Ron Corbett
>>> said
>>> residents who have evacuated could probably return home Saturday.
>>> 
>>> "It's crunch time in Cedar Rapids," he said (Brendan O'Brien, Reuters
>>> <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iowa-floods-idUSKCN11X0GX>, Sept.
>>> 27). *—
>>> CB*
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