Eastern Iowa Flood of 2008

Busse Library provides these titles and websites for students and faculty seeking information about the Eastern Iowa Flood of 2008.

About the Flood

• Cedar Rapids Gazette flood page
• City of Cedar Rapids' flood page
• Iowa Flood Watch 2008
• KCRG-TV 9 (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) flood coverage -- current news and archived footage
• 2008 Iowa Flood Information Page -- from USGS Iowa Water Science Center
• University of Iowa Flood Recovery Information

Flood Recovery

• Cedar Rapids Small Business Recovery Group
• Disaster Assistance Handout -- from Senator Tom Harkin
• Flood Recovery Information--from the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce
• Floodlist -- person-to-person and business-to-business resource offered by the Cedar Rapids Gazette and KCRG-TV9
• Legal Resources for Flood Recovery -- created by Iowa City Public Library
• Palo, Iowa Flood Recovery Information
• Save Iowa -- portal for donation, assistance, news, and media
• 2008 Flood Resource Center -- from Governor's Office
• Vinton, Iowa Flood Relief Fund

Maps

• Cedar Rapids flood map -- map from the Gazette illustrating heights of the Cedar River
• Cedar Rapids 100- and 500-year flood plain zones -- from the Linn County Emergency Management Agency
• Flooding and Rainfall Maps of Iowa
• Iowa City [and Coralville] 100-year flood, 500-year flood -- from the City of Iowa City

Photos

• Cedar Rapids, Iowa Flood 2008--from Andrea Lynn Photography
• Flood related photo galleries -- from the Cedar Rapids Gazette
• The Great Flood of 2008
• 2008 Flood Keokuk, Iowa
• Vinton, Iowa Flood of 2008

Statistics

• Cedar Rapids/Linn County Flood Statistics--from The Iowa Independent
• Flood of Care flood info
• Iowa-Midwest Flood News and Statistics--from MCEER

Busse Library: Special Web Projects

• Comprehensive Cedar Rapids Gazette flood bibliography through September 2008 -- offers direct links to full texts via Newsbank
• Media Coverage: The Flood and the Arts Community -- offers national coverage of the flood, as well as documentation on arts organizations and their recovery

Busse Library Resources

• Bockenstedt, Travis J., LeAnn Neel, Dave LaRonde et al. Epic Surge: eastern Iowa’s unstoppable flood of 2008/2008. DVD F 622 .C433
• Muller, Lyle and Paul Jensen. Epic Surge: eastern Iowa’s unstoppable flood of 2008/2008. F622 .C43 2008