Cedar Rapids flood site used as template for wildfires approaching Californians

Cedar Rapids flood site used as template for wildfires approaching Californians June 29, 2008

Posted by John in Nature, Weather.
Tags: Big Sur (California), Cedar Rapids (Iowa), flooded areas, Flooding, floods, Floods of 2008, internet resources, Lisa Goettel, natural disasters, Web sites, wildfires
trackback

From San Jose Mercury News:

The Web site www.SurFire2008.org was created to help communication between residents after lightning strikes June 21 caused a pair of wildfires – the Gallery and the Basin Fires – now known as the Basin Complex, which consumed 26,876 acres and remained 3 percent contained as of late Friday.

The site is one of several tools used to give praise, create alerts or request help. …

[Lisa] Goettel started the Web site after she found a similar site in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after floods hit where her family lives in mid-June. She sent a note to the site’s creator and asked to borrow the code to create something for Big Sur’s residents. …

Go to http://2008flood.org to see similarities.

For 75 flood-related links, go to Compiled directory of flood-related Web resources published by The Gazette.