High Up The Wall At City Hall

Water creeps up the river wall outside City Hall (foreground, right) on May's Island in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at 6:48 AM, June 11, 2008. The Cedar River was about 19.6 feet at this time and would crest at an unbelievable 31.3 feet two days later. At left is the nearly-inundated Second Avenue bridge and in the background at center is the Linn County Courthouse. All buildings on May's Island would become completely flooded and displaced during this disastrous flood of 2008.