Helplessness is seeing photos of your flooded hometown on the BBC News, New York Times, and Washington Post websites and wishing you could take a 5000 mile red-eye home to help clean up after the damage.
Hang in there Coralville, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and the rest of Eastern Iowa! While it hurts not being able to be there, seeing you fight through the damage of this lost summer makes me that much more proud to be an Iowan!
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Brett,
Don't lose hope. There is still a lot of hope here in Iowa City. The worst of mother nature has brought out the best of human nature in Iowa as neighbors helped neighbors. I suspect there will still be clean up work being done when you come home to us in December.
Keep the faith and keep up the blog.
Chuck
Brett,
Found your blog from your FB page.
First things first: life is chugging along in Iowa and all the other states that have been affected by the flooding (and tornadoes, and wildfires...) You would not believe the number of events that have suddenly been created or turned into flood benefits. I think the hardest part is not knowing the answers to all the questions: when will we be able to drive here again? Where will people live? When will Hancher be open for performances? Also hard is the fact that civilians could help out with sandbagging, but most of the cleaning-up is left to professionals. It felt better to help out.
Second: wow, I love your blog. Such good writing and photography. I hope you don't mind if I check back with you to get a sense of what you're experiencing in Brazil. I'm so happy to know that we have, in you, an amazing ambassador to the world. You're just one person, but you'll be changing perceptions all along the way.
All the best!
Laura G.
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