As most of you know, I'm from and live in Iowa.
Last night before 7PM (CST) there was a terrible tornado that went through western Iowa and hit a Boy Scouts park. There were close to 50 injured and 4 boy scouts lost their lives. My heart goes out to their families and friends.
Here's some video:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25113439#25113439
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25117840#25117840

I live in central Iowa, Des Moines to be exact. What we are dealing with here is flooding and a chance of losing power. They are claiming that the city water plant is fine and will remain fine, but after the floods of '93 and being without water for 21 days, we all are a little jumpy here and concerned. I never thought I would see this again. You never know what it's like until you see the devastation yourself or live through it. I'm asking that members please keep Iowa in their prayers and thoughts.

We need a break from all this rain..which hopefully will happen after Sunday. However, the rivers around here are going to crest this weekend, so we will know more then, on how much has been damaged and how many homes and families have been impacted by these floods.  I know I've talked to my administrators about this here and on DE. But right now, it's all I can think about. I should be fine where I'm at, we didn't have any flooding concerns back in '93 in my neighborhood. My biggest concern right now, losing power or those levees around our water treatment plant not holding up.

Here's a few videos of Des Moines and the metro area.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PturJDtWELc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PturJDtWELc</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8hU1DnbSl0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8hU1DnbSl0</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZp3Udsi90o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZp3Udsi90o</a>

I'm sorry. But yea I'm a bit south of these storms but I'm still under flash flood and tornado watches until tonight.

Stay safe!!

Thanks Bobby!

Yeah, I'm fine. I'm guessing a lot of what you guys are seeing on TV is probably Cedar Rapids Iowa, it's in Eastern Iowa. They got hit worse than what we did.  The did a voluntary evacuation here in the "500 year flood plain" and I'm not in that area. I guess downtown Des Moines was like a ghost town today after the evacuations and the interstates around here were backed up with traffic, many people were leaving Des Moines that are in that flood plain. Plus, you have the idiots that are driving around town to see the flooding. People have even completely came to a stop on the freeway here in town to gawk at the water levels. They are still saying we won't lose water here and I'm still hoping we don't lose any power. And our power company here is trying everything in their power to keep the electricity on. Actually, last I heard the flood waters were receding here in Des Moines, which is great news. But, some of the levees are very weak. We do have a chance of rain tomorrow, or actually today..lol and storms are possible on Sunday. Then next week looks pretty clear except for on Wednesday. Hopefully we won't get much more rain.