The Winnebago River flooded on Sunday, and major sections of the city were under water. The flood level was at 7 feet and by 11:00 am on Sunday it was at 18. It didn't help that the levee broke. at the wastewater treatment plant which forced the city to shut down the water supply. This meant that all the restaurants in town had to close.
Of course Sunday was the day of Margie and Jon's wedding. I rode to Waverly with Travis and Leah through torrential rains. It was crazy... All the fields were flooded... Like, they weren't even fields anymore. They were lakes and ponds. I can't imagine those crops being worth anything anymore.
Luck for us by the time we got to Waverly we had driven out of the rain, although it was very humid and you could tell that it was going to rain sometime later. The wedding was beautiful! :-) Margie looked like a fairytale princess and Jon looked intense and excited at the same time. I can't believe this wedding got thrown together in a week in March. Margie had a piece composed for the bridal processional, and there was a brass quintet and a small choir of Wartburg people that also sang during the service. Margie's piano professor at Wartburg also played during communion and the recessional. It was lovely all around. :-)
At the reception I was in charge of helping serve cake, which was easy. I only accidentally flipped two pieces of cake. The food at the reception was simple, just ham sandwiches, pasta salad and the like. For the dance they had a little jazz combo and a stereo system. After I was done serving cake and was able too eat myself the dance had started. I didn't dance... Rachel V. and I just played with our cameras and took funny pictures. Christy S. joined in and we did "picture personifications" and that was really fun.
We didn't stay very long at the reception because the weather had the potential for getting worse. Rachel V. ended up riding home with Travis, Leah and me because the weather from Waverly towards Cedar Rapids was really really bad and her parents didn't want her to drive. Leah had a meeting back at Wartburg on Monday so it all worked out.
On the ride home we drove around Nashua and Charles City and looked at the flooding. Parts of Charles City were already closed off. We stopped at Hy-Vee because we finally heard that Mason City had no water so Travis and Leah needed to buy some.... Haha... Hy-Vee was almost out... They bought a 6-pack of bottled water which was about all the was left. We also found out that because of the flooding Mason City was instigating a 9 pm curfew. We just made it and my dad came and picked us up.
Rachel and I ended up ordering pizza and watching Wonder Man, starring Danny Kaye. It was a pretty fun time. I took her back to Leah's apartment in Mason, and then went to go buy some shoes, but I discovered that everything was closed, because no one had water at all.
Clear Lake has water and isn't having the problems like Mason City. The worst of it for us, is that our basement flooded Sunday afternoon because our sump-pump couldn't keep up with the water. It was only one half of the basement... The half where I live, so all my clothes got soaking wet. The carpet soaked most of the water up, which helped contain it and nothing was ruined. My family has been cleaning out the basement and shop-vacing it these past couple days.
Since Sunday Waverly and the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area have been dealing with major flooding...
This is an overhead shot of downtown Waverly. The river is the Cedar River. The bridge at the bottom of the picture is the old railroad bridge that is now a part of the bike path. The bridge further up the picture is what we walk across to get to the Waverly Palace Theatre. It the right of the second bridge is the park where we had a picnic on Friday for Margie's Bachelorette party...
This next picture is taken almost from the corner of the Wartburg Campus. Showing the extent of the flooding from the river over the Taco Johns. (Which doesn't mean much if you aren't from Waverly, but, Wartburg people reading this will know what I mean.)Here's a link with more pictures of the Waverly flood.
I'm supposed to go with Leah on Monday to Cedar Falls to get my dress fitted for her wedding... I wonder if that's going to happen...
In other news, work is going fine. Nothing too exciting. I do various things that involve building parts of doors... My days are weird and short, since I start work at 3:30 and work until 2 am. I usually get into bed by 2:30 and sleep until 11:30 am. A lot of people have been gone from the plant, due to the flooding and we've gotten behind schedule... We're pretty sure we will have to work on Friday and they are also talking about working a little bit on Saturday... Which kind of stinks. I don't mind Friday so much, but I really hope I don't have to work on Saturday. *IF* I *DO* have to work on either of those days (knock on wood) it will be time and a half, which will be nice at least.
I really want to see Kung Fu Panda... And just chill... Hopefully I'll get to do some of that this weekend.
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