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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND STAN!!
13 years babyyyy.. Congratulations...

Anyway.. I have been so busy with work, and trying to pay off for my NYC trip, [not working so hot] and I've been babysitting, and so on and so on and so on.
Summer is great, I just got home from camp a while ago. It was a magnificent time- it really was. I love camp and children and Jesus; it was great!
I hope everybody is having a great time and a great summer, don't hang out in the sun too much!

Update on flood

Sorry everything hasn't been up to date and all of that.
I thought I would upload some pictures from our news website. KCRG.com. It's all pretty devastating, but the good news is, THE WATER IS GONE. The bad news is, so is my elementary school, my library the science station, our IMAX, our court house, our jail house, the best mexican restaurant in town; Gringos, pretty much everything from about a mile out from the river, it's pretty much gone only clean up is left..

This little box below, that's kinda cool looking, that's the library



Quaker Oats is pretty much under water..


both above and below are May's island where the courthouse, town hall, and jail house are.

a house that went under in Lake Delton, WI

500 year Flood of 2008. Katrina in Iowa

For every year, one in five hundred chances are that a huge flood will happen and destroy half of what everyone owns. The year is 2008 and this flood hit Iowa pretty hard. Vinton, Palo, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, all under mandatory evacuation. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, my city, is the second city EVER, right next to Paris France, that has their courthouse on an island. Our island is in the middle of the Cedar River, which is taking Iowa by storm. Our courthouse is under water, and at least a half a mile in from each side of the river is under water. My house is completely out of the way. The city has shut down all bridges across the river, except for I-380 and 300. The water is going over the bridges and over peoples' houses. A half a mile in from the river doesn't sound like much, but here's an idea. The Cedar River divides Cedar Rapids in half. The East side and the West side. The City of Cedar Rapids is so big that the city is separated into four sections, NE, NW, SE, and SW; like a compass. The Cedar River also divides up Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Palo and Vinton. Vinton had to evacuate their jail house because of the flood waters.

Believe it or not, this is the biggest flood the midwest has ever seen. Years and years is what it will take to fix this mess, and a whole lot of money in sump-pumps...

If anyone from Iowa remembers the flood of 1993, this is one hundred times worse.

I hope everyone else is having a safe and fun summer.

Thanks

RaeAnne

Summmmerrr!!

YEAHHH school ended Friday, and IIII got myself a summer job at Arby's... I don't like roast beef, or even fast food for that matter. But money iiiisss money..

I laid out yesterday and got the biggest sunburn of my life... all over my back and my legs.. pain pain pain..

Hope your summer is going FANTASTIC..

Teachers' Cards

Only one more week left of school. I've gotten all the teacher cards ready, AND I found a summer job at Arby's.. YEPPY.. and I don't even like roast beef..lol

My friend and I went swim suit shopping today, I'm SO excited for the summmmerrrr

=D