FB: American Rivers Conference

[New Storm]

That may be the post of the year!!!
Bravo!

I go 10 years of playing football and never have one single trouble with my hamstrings.  Last summer, I pull a hammie playing beer league old man softball.  Did it again this year....how depressing.

Getting older isn't bad but at 32 I'm afraid that I'm starting to lose my marbles a little.  The other day I'm about 20 minutes into my morning commute and I look down at my passenger seat to grab my phone.  Much to my disgust I see that I unknowingly decided to take my TV remote control to work with me as well. 

I snapped the photo below to document the beginning of the long decline of my mental health.

What will 50 years be like ? 8)

[Alfredeneumann]

How are the people in Waverly doing.  Has the water went down and clean up begun, or is water still standing. 

I have been out of town for 2 days. This AM the river was almost back in it's banks north of my house. (The area is an un-used city park - Ridgewood) What had changed the most in town is just the UNBELIEVABLE amount of stuff piled head high the entire length of the homeowners property and the mountains of sandbags around town. But better days are ahead for Waverly.

WC is making available to those displaced to rent a room in the Manors.

[Fannosaurus Rex]

I'm so old...darn I forgot what I was going to say.

[footballdaddy]

I'm the youngest of three boys (63,57,49).

I may be old, but I'm not as old as my brothers!

[KCDutch]

Nothing but buckets of rain, heavy winds and one hell of a light show here last night.  We are so thankful, but realize others around the state are less fortunate this morning.  That Iowa spirit will prevail and these small communities will come back.  I was wondering when all the relief effort from Louisianna will arrive.  Oh, that's right; it won't.  Iowans can figure out how to rebuild our lives and our communities.  We'll need the Red Cross for a couple days to hand out coffee and sandwiches then it will be pretty much up to ourselves to dig out and rebuild.  It was only a year ago when the tornado hit here.  The families and homes that were hit have done a remarkable job of repairing and rebuilding.  With the obvious signs of either no trees or grossly deformed trees you can tell the path  the tornado took, but other than that the neighborhoods are back.  The size of our tornado was nothing compared to the one that people in northeast Iowa got hit with, but the results will be the same.  There is a job to do. The Hawkeyes and Cyclones, the Panthers and Bulldogs, the Knights and the Norse, the Dutch and the Storm, the Rams and the KoHawks, the Duhawks and Spartans, the Beavers and Peacocks will all work together and get these places back to better than ever.  That's the Iowa spirit.

I think, I may be wrong, but I think you'd be thankful to know volunteers having been coming to Iowa from all over the US including areas hit my Katrina.  You may have been just giving Iowa and the great people in the state a complement, but probably didn't need to throw others under bus to make your point. 

http://www.abc-7.com/Articles/readnews.asp?articleid=19821&z=2

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080617/NEWS01/806170301

Many more stories but this is a sample, and I heard on a local KC news channel about volunteers from KC and Louisiana were already in Iowa helping.  My wife and I are heading back next week to volunteer for a few days...hopefully everything will start to get back to normal in Iowa soon.

[DutchFan2004]

Nothing but buckets of rain, heavy winds and one hell of a light show here last night.  We are so thankful, but realize others around the state are less fortunate this morning.  That Iowa spirit will prevail and these small communities will come back.  I was wondering when all the relief effort from Louisianna will arrive.  Oh, that's right; it won't.  Iowans can figure out how to rebuild our lives and our communities.  We'll need the Red Cross for a couple days to hand out coffee and sandwiches then it will be pretty much up to ourselves to dig out and rebuild.  It was only a year ago when the tornado hit here.  The families and homes that were hit have done a remarkable job of repairing and rebuilding.  With the obvious signs of either no trees or grossly deformed trees you can tell the path  the tornado took, but other than that the neighborhoods are back.  The size of our tornado was nothing compared to the one that people in northeast Iowa got hit with, but the results will be the same.  There is a job to do. The Hawkeyes and Cyclones, the Panthers and Bulldogs, the Knights and the Norse, the Dutch and the Storm, the Rams and the KoHawks, the Duhawks and Spartans, the Beavers and Peacocks will all work together and get these places back to better than ever.  That's the Iowa spirit.

I think, I may be wrong, but I think you'd be thankful to know volunteers having been coming to Iowa from all over the US including areas hit my Katrina.  You may have been just giving Iowa and the great people in the state a complement, but probably didn't need to throw others under bus to make your point. 

http://www.abc-7.com/Articles/readnews.asp?articleid=19821&z=2

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080617/NEWS01/806170301

Many more stories but this is a sample, and I heard on a local KC news channel about volunteers from KC and Louisiana were already in Iowa helping.  My wife and I are heading back next week to volunteer for a few days...hopefully everything will start to get back to normal in Iowa soon.

How was the wife's family up there in Waverly?  Were they affected at all?  Hope all is well with you and the family.  How is the new little one?  I bet she is getting big. 

[doolittledog]

DF2K4, is your son out in Cali yet???

[DutchFan2004]

Yes he has been there for about a month.  He went out for spring ball and then came home for about 10 days for graduation and then went back.  He will be home for about 2 weeks in the middle of July and then back out for fall practice to start. 

[The Show]

Catching up a bit...

I'm the middle child.  Older brother and sister and younger sister and brother.  Somehow my parents figured out how to do the rotation thing between boys and girls.

In other news...

Former teammate and BV alum, Grant Bousum made the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday night.  It was the wedding names segment and it seems that Grant's wife's maiden name was Fine. They didn't exactly pronounce Bousum right, but it was the "Fine-Bousum wedding." 

[warthog]

KCD:

Yes probably some regionalism in my post of 25 days ago after the tornado and before the floods. 

I'm sure some folks from N.O. have headed this way, even though your news articles are about Mississippi and Florida volunteers.  The emergency workers will appreciate the help regardless from where it comes.  Yet the stories I remember after the Katrina storm said little about the people of Mississippi or Florida ignoring warnings and then complaining because they weren't plucked out of the water just exactly when they wanted.  With the glaring exception of two idiots in Waterloo, I've heard nothing about looting here in Iowa.  To the best of my knowledge, no one in either Iowa or Illinois has been shooting at rescue helicopters or boats.   I haven't seen reports of violence and lawlessness in the emergency shelters.  I'll stick with my original thought that Iowa will come out of this better than N.O.

[the_mayne_event]

KCD:

Yes probably some regionalism in my post of 25 days ago after the tornado and before the floods. 

I'm sure some folks from N.O. have headed this way, even though your news articles are about Mississippi and Florida volunteers.  The emergency workers will appreciate the help regardless from where it comes.  Yet the stories I remember after the Katrina storm said little about the people of Mississippi or Florida ignoring warnings and then complaining because they weren't plucked out of the water just exactly when they wanted.  With the glaring exception of two idiots in Waterloo, I've heard nothing about looting here in Iowa.  To the best of my knowledge, no one in either Iowa or Illinois has been shooting at rescue helicopters or boats.   I haven't seen reports of violence and lawlessness in the emergency shelters.  I'll stick with my original thought that Iowa will come out of this better than N.O.

there was the one murder(shooting) in CR on the Thursday it got really bad here.  but that could be completely non-flood related, i never heard anything about it.

[DutchFan2004]

Doolittle,

We are now less than 80 days away from kickoff.  We will be at 78 days at 1:00 PM today. 

[sc_stormchaser]

Catching up a bit...

I'm the middle child.  Older brother and sister and younger sister and brother.  Somehow my parents figured out how to do the rotation thing between boys and girls.

In other news...

Former teammate and BV alum, Grant Bousum made the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday night.  It was the wedding names segment and it seems that Grant's wife's maiden name was Fine. They didn't exactly pronounce Bousum right, but it was the "Fine-Bousum wedding." 

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/headlines/H_3575/48.shtml#headline

Yes, Jay was a little off the correct the pronunciation, but then it wouldn't be funny! I hope this isn't like being on the cover of SI....

[KCDutch]

Warthog-

Iowa may well be better off than NO and other places, I just don't understand putting people down to help promote Iowa.  It just comes off as almighty, and the people of Iowa are better than that. 

Volunteers are coming to Iowa from all over the place, I just pulled the first couple of my google search.

[KCDutch]

KCD:

Yes probably some regionalism in my post of 25 days ago after the tornado and before the floods. 

I'm sure some folks from N.O. have headed this way, even though your news articles are about Mississippi and Florida volunteers.  The emergency workers will appreciate the help regardless from where it comes.  Yet the stories I remember after the Katrina storm said little about the people of Mississippi or Florida ignoring warnings and then complaining because they weren't plucked out of the water just exactly when they wanted.  With the glaring exception of two idiots in Waterloo, I've heard nothing about looting here in Iowa.  To the best of my knowledge, no one in either Iowa or Illinois has been shooting at rescue helicopters or boats.   I haven't seen reports of violence and lawlessness in the emergency shelters.  I'll stick with my original thought that Iowa will come out of this better than N.O.

there was the one murder(shooting) in CR on the Thursday it got really bad here.  but that could be completely non-flood related, i never heard anything about it.

Ummm, OK.....