Good Lord Willing Or The Creeks Don't Rise...

Unfortunately, the latter was the case on this day. As the Cedar River in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa was causing alarm with its rising waters from continuing heavy rain on the afternoon of Thursday, June 12, 2008, so too were its tributaries. After getting off work that afternoon I got an up-close and personal look at an area of Dry Run Creek in Marion along Boyson Road. In this photo you see the trailhead from the parking lot at Boyson Park. The submerged trail goes between the two trees at center and veers off to the right in the background. The water level at this location, though very high, never quite ran over Boyson Road. Dry Run Creek merges with Indian Creek at Donnelly and Willow parks in Marion. Indian Creek, in turn, merges with the Cedar River south of the Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids, just west of Highway 13/151.