I've been through your town many times, dice bourbon. Now it's hard to imagine how all this damage will be repaired and how people and businesses will recover financially, except to say that recovery seems impossible at the moment. However, I think the simple phrase at the end of the video above says it best, "We will rebuild."
It upset me greatly to see, on national television, so many familiar places underwater. In practically all of the photos and footage I watched, I could identify the location of every place in downtown Cedar Rapids and many places in Iowa City. I think I've always dreamed of my hometown becoming internationally famous, but this isn't what I had in mind at all. (Ashton Kutcher isn't either.)
