Greg Buelow, Cedar Rapids public safety communications specialist, shares information about the city’s Neighborhood PACT program, a grassroots campaign to empower individuals with information about how to prepare for disasters and navigate the aftermath.
“One Year After: The Derecho Remembrance Exhibit” at CSPS hall through Oct. 10. Exhibit shows Aug. 10, 2020, derecho’s impact through images from Gazette photojournalists, community contributors
Some neighbors of a Cedar Rapids condominium complex are frustrated with decisions made by their homeowners association. HOAs have boomed in recent decades as residents and cities don’t want to be responsible for lawns, drainage areas and snow removal.
Looking back at some of the top stories from the past week.
The events included a ceremonial tree planting at Thomas Park and art unveiling in City Hall
The day after the storm hit, I was on the ground to survey the damage personally. I spoke directly with President Donald Trump to explain the scope of the devastation — a story the national press was not telling.
Cedar Rapids couple Bob and Carmen find a way through a year of derecho repairs and challenges. It’s been a year of work and worry, thankfulness and frustration.
A year after the derecho, one Cedar Rapids woman who started feeding her neighborhood three meals a day still is helping the people who have become her friends
Officials still are finishing formal after-action reviews focusing on what lesson were learned and what steps should be taken to more urgently come to the aid of citizens who — days after the storm — frequently struggled to find food and gas and often shelter. Reports are expected later this month.
City employees and community volunteers continue going door to door to help identify remaining obstacles residents are facing in derecho recovery and to refer them to available resources.
Finding affordable, adequate and safe housing has become even more difficult in our community — especially for those in this most vulnerable population
It will take the entire community working together to restore what has been lost so that the next generation can access these essential benefits. We all can help by planting native Iowa trees, shrubs and landscape plants.
The photos in this collection were chosen out of the hundreds taken by Gazette photojournalists during and following the Aug. 10, 2020, derecho in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas in Eastern Iowa.
The post-traumatic stress was real, and a lot of it had to do with loss of trees we had grown attached to — some of which landed on roofs and greeted people inside their homes when they fell.
At Matthew 25’s urban farm, the greenhouse roof blew off, trees dropped and crops were flattened. The neighborhoods where Matthew 25 works and beyond, were turned into a shattered mess
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