Flooding in Iowa

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Specializes in ICU, PACU, Cath Lab.

Please nurses keep us all in your thoughts and prayers...I am in Cedar Rapids IA, and we are having catastrophic floods. There is approx 8-10 feet of water in our entire downtown. We evacuated all our patients from my hospital last night, it was filling up with water, so we are obviously not working right now. Hopefully we will be back in a few days to start cleaning up. The destruction to our town and our state is going to be massive and I know that we could use all the positive thoughts we can get.

I am sorry if this was posted already...I searched and did not see it.

Thanks!!

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My thoughts and prayers are with all of you. Glad you were able to get all the patients to safety. God bless you all. Hugs.

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Definitely thinking about you guys and praying for you.

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prayers are with you, i have been watching this on the news and it looks so awful that people are in such a devastating situation

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Specializes in Tele, Acute.
Please nurses keep us all in your thoughts and prayers...I am in Cedar Rapids IA, and we are having catastrophic floods. There is approx 8-10 feet of water in our entire downtown. We evacuated all our patients from my hospital last night, it was filling up with water, so we are obviously not working right now. Hopefully we will be back in a few days to start cleaning up. The destruction to our town and our state is going to be massive and I know that we could use all the positive thoughts we can get.

I am sorry if this was posted already...I searched and did not see it.

Thanks!!

You and everyone there are in my thoughts and prayers. I absolutely know what you are going through, 3 years after Katrina and I am still not home.

I hope you guys have better luck with FEMA and all assistance you have coming. Sure wish I could come up there and help! My heart is heavy:redbeathe

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Specializes in Psychiatrics.
Please nurses keep us all in your thoughts and prayers...I am in Cedar Rapids IA, and we are having catastrophic floods. There is approx 8-10 feet of water in our entire downtown. We evacuated all our patients from my hospital last night, it was filling up with water, so we are obviously not working right now. Hopefully we will be back in a few days to start cleaning up. The destruction to our town and our state is going to be massive and I know that we could use all the positive thoughts we can get.

I am sorry if this was posted already...I searched and did not see it.

Thanks!!

I live here in Iowa also, no where near Cedar Rapids, (Knoxville area) but the flood is comming and soon. We have about five fire departments, all volunteer, (yes, I live in a very rural neighborhood) and our fire departments have already started to divide up our areas on how the areas are thought to be flooding. (We have not had any major flooding yet, but our Red Rock Dam has been opened up more and the flooding process has started). If the rivers/creeks that we think are going to flood do, we are going to have some major issues. One town is going to be completely isolated (unless you get a boat and row in, rescue them, and then go northwest to the nearst hospital, which is a little one), the town I live in can only go south, one town can only go east, one town can only go north, and the rest who knows. If we want to go to a trama one center, our only shot is a going to be a boat or a helicopter. So far, we haven't flooded out our hospitals. Our main problem will be getting to those who need the help and getting them to the hospitals.

I also live near Attica. The little town that nearly got destroyed by the tornado, their fire station is kinda out of working order, so, we are going to have fun (:eek::banghead:

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Deep, deep prayers for all nurses.

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Specializes in Home Health, Case Management, OR.

I am down in the Quad Cities where we are flooding as well, but nowhere as horribly as cedar rapids! You all are in my thoughts and I hope even if you cannot work that your families is safe and your homes are dry.

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I'm up in the Cedar Falls area. The downtown survived the flood but only because thousands of people came out to sandbag. Lots of homes flooded though.

The films & photos of the CR & Iowa City areas are heartbreaking. Our area hospitals received some of the patients evacuated from Mercy & we heard that it might be necessary to evacuate patients from U of I hospital. That's a scary thought.

Most of our highways are back open again fortunately. It took me 1.5 hours to get to work instead of the normal 35 minutes.

I grew up in the flood plain & remember being flooded out many times and the mess involved. My prayers are with you all.

Dixie

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Specializes in ICU, Hospice.

Calla my thoughts and prayers are definitely with you. My family recently survived flooding here in Missouri and the water was within 1 1/2 feet of my door...talk about scary. Our barn received over 53 inches of water. I hope you and your family are high and dry.

My daughter lived in Cedar Rapids for a couple of years and the people in your community are some of the kindest and most genuine I have ever met. Your downtown area was immaculately clean and quite beautiful, I have faith that it will be once again.

If you need words of encouragement or just someone to "talk" to feel free to email me. God bless you, your family and your community. :heartbeat

PS - Did the Slovok area also flood? I am guessing so.

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Specializes in ICU, PACU, Cath Lab.

PS - Did the Slovok area also flood? I am guessing so.

Yes...badly. The beautiful museum has water to it's roof. I cannot imagine all the things lost inside.

Thank you to everyone for your positive thoughts. We need them!

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Specializes in orthopaedics.

hoping for the floods to settle soon. kepping all of iowa in my thoughts.:heartbeat

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