Posted on 13 June 2008 by Kathleen
We left a farm north of Cedar Rapids last night about 7. The skies were gray, sprinkling rain. But we spotted cloud to ground lightning off to the west. So we thought we ought to book it back east, but the Iowa DOT closed a portion of interstate 80 at 8 pm. Seems like the [...]
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Posted on 12 June 2008 by Kathleen
Okay, we are nuts. We wanted to see the new Cardigan Welsh Corgis puppies just north of Cedar Rapids. So we set out, and decided to snake northeast and try to avoid I-80. So we went towards Cedar Rapids on US 30. Of course, once we got near the Cedar River, the police just started to [...]
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Posted on 11 June 2008 by Kathleen
I think the barges are racing now. I saw a tow going down river without barges. And they were passing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q1sSEYyJN0
The tow going down river had no barges, the one going up river had some barges. The empty ones sit higher, the loaded ones sit lower (makes sense…)
The local news just announced that the Mississippi River [...]
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