Iowans Are A Great Example Of How People Should Behave In Times Of Crises

Via the Cedar Rapids Gazette, this is about what's happening in Cedar Rapids:

The Cedar River is dropping more quickly than officials thought it would, and attention is turning to the logistics of recovery.

"We're below 29 feet now," City Engineer Dave Elgin said. "The water is dropping at a little over two inches per hour."

The water is now expected to drop below flood stage June 21, Elgin said.

Local police and firefighters are requesting more National Guard assistance as it becomes important to secure the flooded areas.

"The perimeter of the flooded area is going to be maintained as a secured area," Linn County Administrative Services Director Mike Goldberg said.

He said police and National Guard will thoroughly patrol all the flood-damaged areas, and set up checkpoints. People will have to sign in and go in and out through the same checkpoint. A list of checkpoint locations will be released by noon.

Goldberg implored people to stay away unless they have a valid reason to be there.

"We need your cooperation," he said.

No looting has been reported, he said.

And from a comment on the New York Daily News web site:

Has the media noticed how Iowans, regardless of race, work together to help one another and there isn't this mass hysteria, blaming the federal govt, waiting for help, focusing the blame on everyone else but the source - the weather? And the governor is a democrat, just like the one in lousiana at the time of Katrina. Look media- take a look at the people of Iowa - they aren't waiting - they are helping one another. I am so sick and tired of people in this country trying to place blame on everyone else and doing nothing to try and solve the problem.

Compare/contrast how the Iowa people will rebuild and make their state great again, while Louisiana will still cry of injustices, poverty and no help. Sorry, but there is poverty in Iowa too. People don't just sit on their lazy ***** waiting for someone else to do the job. Do you see anyone w/ shotguns, do you see any looting, do you see any whining? Iowans are a great example of how people should behave in time of crises.

They always have been.