Corridor Recovery

All around us are moments of hope. Since the flood waters arrived, the quiet heroes of the Cedar Rapids area went to work, spreading help, and hope, throughout the community. Individuals do it by volunteering to help their neighbors in need. Community heroes do it through a deliberate act of kindness that changes a life. Businesses do it by caring for employees, and making sure those most affected by the flood get an extra boost. Ministers, counselors and other leaders do it be offering hope and encouragement in moments of crisis. They lift spirits, and even save lives.

Corridor Recovery offers Operation Hope, a way for the community to recharge, get practical help, tell their good-news story and recognize people that go beyond what anyone would expect. Those people, and those stories, are conduits for hope, pointing toward the stronger future that Cedar Rapids will have.

Were blessed by people willing to help us

First off my family and I are not flood victims but flood victors! We refuse to let this flood victimize us. As many who returned to their homes that were flooded found was the awful mess and stench. Mixture of home furnishings , belongings, sewer backup and mud from the river water. That stench we will never forget upon entering our home. The mess of our belongings and furnishings that layed scattered after it had floated then just layed after the water receded. My wife and I hugged... continued.

You’re Not Dead Yet

We had moved to Iowa in 1979 during a recession. Interest rates and inflation both were in the range. By my third year there, my family had grown from my wife and me and three children to having two more babies and a foster child from Vietnam. Eight people, no money. To accommodate our growing family, we moved from a friend’s upstairs apartment to a farmhouse just outside of town.Poverty was hard for many reasons and, though we had most of life’s essentials, we were... continued.

Marco's Pizza

Restaurant
3607 First Ave, SE
Cedar Rapids, IA
(319)362-7267

Bill O’Neill

A life-changing experience Senior Facilities Engineer Bill O’Neill will never forget the Iowa Flood of 2008 and the many lives it changed. By Marielle Rodeheffer Bill O’Neill is all too familiar with the damage that can be caused when typically calm rivers overflow their banks and swallow the communities nestled alongside them. He w... continued.