Iowa unveiled new state flood maps today, eight flooding that hit cedar rapids and other parts of eastern iowa in 2008. Those floods devastated areas that people didnt people who experienced flooding then know if theyre still in the path of danger. The sixyear effort to create and update maps. Started in 2010. The Program Costs 15 Million Dollars. And the Us Department of housing and urban development funded most of it. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman joins us from along the cedar river in cedar rapids. Dave, just how extensive is the flood mapping that is finally wrapped up . Beth, the mapping doesnt just cover major the Iowa Flood Center studied every single stream that drains more than one square mile of territory and mapped out the flooding potential. The Iowa Flood Center may consider the mapping officially complete now. But the city of cedar rapids used the data this fall to fight off the second highest crest ever on the cedar rapids. The information compiled by the flood center pred
Temperatures into the 30s. In fact, theres very little chance of seeing sun through the next week. Our next area of low pressure arrives this weekend with sunday still being the day to watch for some snow, primarily in the morning. Slick roads are possible sunday morning with this first minor accumulation of the season. Moving into next week, the monstrously overhypedsocialmedia induced storm will primarily just drop temperatures and increase wind speeds for the second half of next week. No record cold. No record snow. While snow will probably accompany the frontal passage, determining the minor amounts will be the primary focus next week. Enjoy your weekend todaycloudy. Wind 1 tennessee continue to comb through burned down buildings this morning. Officials now confirm 11 people have died in the wildfire. Dianne gallagher has more. Its been several days since fires burning in the Great Smoky Mountains in eastern tennessee engulfed towns in sevier county, butthe number of li increase. O
Streets of dallas to see him and his wife driven through dealey plaza in dallas, november 22nd, 1963, and then at the age of 46, he was gunned down. The nation wept. People went home, schools closed for days. The country was at a virtual stand still as the president was laid to rest. And flags at the white house and the Capitol Building today fly at half staff, president obama has declared this day one of remembrance. So now, 50 years later, the city of dallas, for the very first time, is recognizing the event that scarred it for generations. A ceremony that marked the moment of the nations loss was silence, is winding down. In Arlington National cemetery where president kennedy is buried and an eternal flame burns, a wreath was laid today, this week, in commemoration. First, examine our attitude towards peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it is unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that man
The Green family, which owned The Inn of Rosslyn and the Americana Hotel in Crystal City the sale of which was previously reported has sold both hotels to developer JBG Smith before the new year, according to one family member. The family also sold two apartment buildings: Fern Gardens and Williamsburg Apartments.
“The whole COVID-19 thing has basically bankrupted our businesses,” Katherine Green, whose father built the hotel in 1957, told ARLnow. “There was no other option. There was no end in sight.”
Business looked good, pre-coronavirus. The hotels were generating income, and the general manager of The Americana told Washington Business Journal that 2017 was its best year. But when the economy crashed, Green said she had no income from April 1 until mid-December. (The County records the sales on Dec. 18.) She said a small business loan covered payroll for a few months, but the siblings still emptied their bank accounts to keep the hotels open for a paltry 10% occupan