We will be contacting local government and the Red Cross. I really don't know how soon.

Katrina woke us up again. Since 9/11 most of our efforts have been focused on terrorism, and it's time to start thinking we have natural disasters, too.

Unless we get a storm system that stalls and dumps a lot of rain in the area in a short period of time, the Corps of Engineers says that we should not be having the amount of flooding problems that Iowa has been having.