Quote Originally Posted by Suki Wingy
I was going to pm you to see how you were doing, glad you and all critters are ok!
IA City is like my hometown. I was born there and my mom and her family grew up there. How is City Park? My mom told me that College Green Park was hit, trees down and such. The appartment we lived in when I was born (don't remember it of course but my mom poins it out when we visit) is apparently not there and my mom's childhood historic house had it's 150 year old victorian carrage house-turned-garrage torn off the foundation and it's unsalvagable. My mom said her old college house (forgot what those are called) had part of the roof and a wall torn off so it looks like a doll house.
Sigh... I guess we're all just living by nature's rules after all I't just so hard to take. It gave my great g'ma quite a scare over in Cedar Rapids and that's the last thing she needs right now.
City park is fine, luckily nothing happened there but College Green Park was hit very badly. The gazebo and playground are there, but most of the trees are down. It's terrible seeing 50 and 60 year old trees die.

That's too bad about your mom's childhood house! I really feel for all the people who have to move because of this. Many of them are poor college kids, too, who probably didn't have any insurance on their stuff. I'm glad your grandma is ok, I'm sure she was terrified.