If you need a "how-to" ignite your outrage over yet another set of levees neglected by the Republicans' doctrine of "Drowning America in a bathtub [1]", then start at David's Drowning America: Iowa Edition [2].

For now let's look at the devastation through the eyes of Iowans themselves. Let's start with Liz Martin's aerial view for the GazetteOnline [3], offered without voice over or comment:

A band called "Ravens and Chimes" gets stuck by a flash flood in a restaurant somwhere in Cedar Rapids :

Here's another great one from GazetteOnline : Bill Bahls of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, talks about the rising floodwaters in the area of Sixth Street and Fourth Avenue SW on Thursday, June 12, 2008. Also, homes along Ellis Road NW have become nearly submerged as Cedar River floodwaters continue to rise. GazetteOnline video by Jeff Raasch.

To say all these videos are invaluable is to put it midly. Unfiltered by news media they speak volumes of how the devastation of floods usually creep in ways unexpected.

Here's a video by Rodney White for DesMoinesRegister.com. It shows engineers looking at a back up levee being slowly washed away by the ever increasing power of the flood's current:

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