Not quite.

We spent all day sand-bagging, with an army of volunteers helping. Water is
flowing across the road between us and the airport to the south, and at the
intersection to the north. We've built a wall around the lowest of our two
buildings, (but have little faith that this will hold if the river rises as
much as predicted. Dozens of sand-bag walls have failed, all over town.

The American Barnstormers Tour, an event we worked on for six months (and
for which we provided primary sponsorship) has been cancelled. The pilots
could have made it in today, but -- with the river expected to go up another
four feet -- they probably wouldn't have made it out. No sense in risking
20 one-of-a-kind aircraft, so they've moved on to their next stop on the
multi-state tour.

Since they had the whole hotel booked, we are nearly empty. Unfortunately,
being nearly cut off by flood waters, even though we're still dry we've got
little business. And no none knows what tomorrow will bring, so folks are
sensibly staying in hotels that are on higher ground.

We flew Atlas to a nearby airport today (and one of the wonderful volunteers
gave Joe and I a ride back, fording deep flood waters to make it back), and
our "new" Ercoupe is now hanging from the engine hoist in my A&P's hangar,
like a big Xmas ornament. Ironically, we saw the most GA traffic at our
airport in YEARS, with everyone getting out of the rivers way.

This catastrophe -- the worst natural disaster in Iowa history -- has been
an awful, slow-motion freight train crashing, like watching a freighter
heading toward the Golden Gate Bridge. Nothing and no one can stop it.

Still, we've been very lucky. Hundreds of businesses and home are under
water right now... See: http://tinyurl.com/5o823a
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"Airbus" wrote in message
...
Got floats on that single?
Floats on the hotel?