Photos: Kurt Warner visits Cedar Rapids, 7.8.08

Photos available to the media for download. Courtesy Dave Knoer/American Red Cross.

Photos: Cedar Rapids 7.7.08

Photos available to the media for download. Courtesy Dave Knoer/American Red Cross.

Audio: What’s that Red Cross Truck Doing Here?

The Red Cross offers food and water to other relief workers during disasters.

Robin Parker and Michael Spencer discuss.

Graphic: When Disaster Strikes

How the Red Cross May Use Your Donation to Help Disaster Victims:

• $25 provides five blankets at an emergency shelter.
• $75 can cover a doctor’s visit for an individual injured in a disaster.
• $350 can provide emrergency food and shelter for 25 disaster victims for one day.
• $2,500 deploys one Emergency Response Vehicle and drivers (including housing and meals for drivers) to a disaster relief operation.
• $3,200 is the average yearly maintenance and fuel for one Emergency Response Vehicle.

This image shows how the Red Cross responds when a disaster strikes:

Audio: Where the Iowa River Meets the Mississippi

400 people at Strawberry Point putting out sandbags.

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Audio: Cedar Rapids Resident Patricia Edmonds Returns Home

“When I entered my home and damage was almost inconceivable. The refridgerator was laying on the floor in the kitchen. The computer had actually floated off the desk and onto the floor. My dining room table, a huge heavy thing, just floated into another room.”

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Audio: Shelter resident Veronica Johnson describes going home

Note: You will need to turn up your computer or mp3 player volume for this one.

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Audio: Assisting Residents with Return to Homes

“You could tell the family was going through their normal lives and had no time to prepare for this devastation.”

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Audio: Red Cross assisting shelter residents in their first visits back home

“The water line on these houses is my height. Please help us help these residents.”

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Audio: Tracy Kiest at University of Iowa in Iowa City

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Audio: Allen Crabtree in Cedar Rapids, IA

Allen Crabtree is in Cedar Rapids where he reports on the receding water on the morning of June 15, 2008.

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Photos: Cedar Rapids, IA

Taken June 13, 2008. The following photos are available for download by media outlets. Courtesy Talia Frenkel, American Red Cross.

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Shelter Location Information: Indiana

(Updated June 14, 2008; 10:00 pm EST)

Shelter location information is subject to change without notice. Please check with your local chapter or call 1-866-GET-INFO to confirm this information.

• Bartholomew County: Northside Middle School, 1400 27th St., Columbus, IN
• Gibson County: American Red Cross Gibson County Chapter, 312 W. State St., Princeton, IN
• Morgan County: Martinsville High School, 1360 E. Gray St., Martinsville, IN
• Vigo County: Terre Haute North High School, 3434 Maple Ave, Terre Haute, IN

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