We have been getting many calls from those who saw significant flooding asking for advice about saving photographs that received water damage.
Sadly, there is no guarantee that your family photographs will be completely okay and show no signs of damage. However, there are a few steps that you can take that will help.

Remove any […]

Just a quick note for those who are wondering about the situation in Cedar Falls.
FEMA is in town and offering assistance. The river is falling but expected to crest again sometime this weekend at the old flood record, which may still threaten the area. We sat in on a city council meeting tonight and steps […]

I think everyone in Iowa is tired of throwing sandbags. One report I heard yesterday afternoon said that we had 1/2 million sandbags on the levy in Cedar Falls and I’m sure we’re far beyond that now.
The efforts of the city were amazing, there were so many people helping us save downtown and the rest […]

Here is some of the news we’ve been hearing from the area…much of this is word of mouth and personal experience and S&C will not stand behind the accuracy of any of it - just passing on information.
The current news in Cedar Falls is that the river is currently falling. It crested early this morning […]

Island Park (Center Street) is typically one of the first places to flood. However, it is a phenomenon to see the Boat House underwater up to the roof. This was Tuesday morning.

Across the street from the Boat House, the Ice House Museum was completely surrounded by Tuesday morning.

Later Tuesday afternoon the beautiful sunset was a […]

Here is the first round of images from yesterday. There are many more to come as we have two of the laptops up and running now! Once we get the images posted I will attempt to recap as much news as we’ve received from the ground as possible. I know there has been a lot […]

I’m not sure why, but I don’t know if the comments on the blog are working and frankly I don’t have the time right now to fix the issue, so they are below. Thanks to all for your support and thoughts from all over, the community and international support has been amazing. There are many […]

This is the first time we’ve been able to get online since we tore down the studio yesterday at 11 am.
I’m going to attempt to get it all in before I lose the connection again.
In Cedar Falls all of the business owners downtown were told around 11 yesterday morning to secure our property and prepare […]

The river is now expected to crest at 103 feet, a record and 1 foot above the levy. They’re sand bagging to try to save downtown right now. We will know by evening how this all goes down. The heart wrenching scenes of the day are the roads to Shannon’s family herb farm, we can […]

These were from last night, our last successful venture into North Cedar at the bottom.

The train bridge north of 1st Street is still holding strong.