"The worst flooding Cedar Rapids has ever seen." That's how the morning talk show host on 600 WMT-AM just described the devastation. Make no mistake - this is a flood of epic proportions. Nothing like this has been seen in Eastern Iowa in recorded history.
To give some perspective on just how bad it is, here are the river crests for the previous big floods:
Previous record flood in 1929: 20 feet
The Flood of 1993: 19.3 feet
Current river level in downtown Cedar Rapids: ~30 feet and still rising