Post flood update

Hey there, sorry I abandoned ship again. Life has been very busy these last few weeks. We were able to get back into our building on Friday June 20th (well we went into our building without permission and drove through 3 feet of water to get there, but we were in nonetheless).

We have 3 different buildings connected by fenced in yards/playareas that make up our facility. 2 of the 3 buildings had all the water out and one still had less than a foot. Looking at the pictures you can see where the water line ended up, some spots it was 4 or 5' and others about 3'. We sustained a significant amount of damage to the facility and as many of you have asked we don't have flood insurance so none of it is covered sadly. We do rent our buildings so our landlord has some responsibility to get them back up and inhabitable, but any upgrades or construction we have done is our resposibility and that is probably 90%.

We worked hard the past week and half gutting the buildings, cleaning sludge and mud off of everything, bleaching, powerwashing and doing some demolition, and hauling out all the stuff that was ruined by the water. As of last Friday (just a week after we got in) we were able to get the city to allow us to open up one of our buildings. So we are running at a very small capacity but running is running so we are thrilled. The other 2 buildings have a bunch of drywall so it will be weeks before we can get them all rebuilt.

Here are some pictures post flood and during demolition stage. Thanks for all your thoughts and well wishes, we are looking forward to some normalcy which hopefully will come soon. Jake should be back in his Cedar Rapids office mid July if all goes as planned, we are looking forward to a nice calm August :)

Here are some pics, I will make sure I post more pics when we are finally done!

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=hjvfbtb.68psizej&x=0&y=5tcvqw&localeid=en_US