Angst Girl

I’m taking a brief hiatus from my blog. Things are just so, um, yuck around here. I can’t think of a better way to express it. People are still living in shelters, trying to find ways to pay for a mortgage on a house that no longer exists while paying (newly raised) rent on an [...]

 
As heart wrenching as it was to see a huge part of my city under water, the view is even more devastating now…

More than 1,000 city blocks look like the picture above. Actually, the piles in that picture are fairly small compared to most of them.
 

I can’t even begin to imagine what it feels like [...]

Not too long ago my dog-daughter had an expensive breakfast. I looked and looked for the rest of the bill but found nothing.
 
Yesterday Daisy came running into the livingroom with this in her mouth:
 

 
I was amazed and happy because, since I had more than 50% of the bill, I could take it to a bank [...]

Thanks for the laughs and the truth, George (aka Otto) …
 

 
Here’s one of my favorite clips: War

I think today we saw the worst result of the terrible flooding in Iowa: President [I-have-the-intelligence-of-a] Bush showed his smug face here today. And we thought the worst was over!
 
Obviously I have no warm feelings for him and the only things his visit accomplished were snarled traffic, diverted resources that are already mighty thin, and interruption [...]

Thank you so much to everyone who left comments of support and/or sent good thoughts and energy in our direction.
 
Obviously we’re going to have a VERY long recovery period, but the rain has finally stopped for a few days, the river is starting to mind its manners and slowly climb back within its banks, and [...]

I was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and left the city (and state) as soon as I could by moving to the Pacific Northwest and then to Minneapolis. I returned to CR six years ago for a number of reasons, but was not particularly happy about it. Unfortunately it has taken a massive disaster to [...]

I live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
 
The population of my city is about 160,000.
 
The Cedar River runs through the middle of the city.
 
The entire center of the city is now under water.
 
All but one of the bridges that we use to get from one side of the river to the other, and one side of the [...]

In the past, one of the few (very few) things I liked about living in the middle of the country was experiencing four distinct seasons. Now, however, we seem to be reduced to three rather bothersome seasons: Too Much Solid Precipitation, Too Much Liquid Precipitation, and Ridiculously Strong and Swirly Winds. Mother Nature is being [...]

Dear People:
 
Let me first express my gratitude for your honest feedback. I know that offering feedback can be scary and difficult and I appreciate your courage and generosity. Hearing how other people experience me can help me to grow and become a better citizen of the world.
 
You should know that this is not the first [...]