Edited to add: I just came across these pictures on CNN of Iowa flooding and had to post a couple of them here. Hard to get your mind around all this flooding in so many areas. Not just one state but many!
Cedar Rapids Iowa before:
This was taken after:
Photos are from opposite directions but you can clearly see the 'ship island' and the cross over roads are losing the battle.
I came across this gangster translation list. If I said.....
"You dumb mug, get your mitts off the marbles before I stuff that mud-pipe down your mush - and tell your moll to hand over the mazuma."
Would you know what I was saying?- Bangtails: Racehorses
- Barbering: Talking
- Be on the nut, to: To be broke
- Bean-shooter: Gun
- Beezer: Nose
- Bent cars: Stolen cars
- Berries: Dollars
- Blip off: To kill
- Blow: Leave
- Blow one down: Kill someone
- Blower: Telephone
- Bo: Pal, buster, fellow, as in "Hey, bo"
- Boiler: Car
- Boob: Dumb guy
- Boozehound: Drunkard
- Bop: To kill
- Box job: A safecracking
- Brace (somebody): Grab, shake up
- Bracelets: Handcuffs
- Break it up: Stop that, quit the nonsense
- Bucket: Car
- Bulge, as in "The kid had the bulge there": The advantage reeze: To leave, go. Also breeze off - get lost
- Buzzer: Policeman's badge
- C, or C-note: $100, also a pair of C's = $200
- Cabbage: Money
- Chicago overcoat: A coffin boose: Jail
- Chin music: A punch on the jaw
- Corn: Bourbon (as in corn liquor)
- Deck, as in "deck of Luckies": Pack of cigarettes
- Dip: Pickpocket
- Dip the bill: have a drink
- Dive: A low-down, cheap sort of place
- Fin: $5 bill
- Giggle juice: Liquor
- Gin mill: Bar (speakeasy?)
- Harlem sunset: Some sort fatal injury caused by knife
- Hash house: A cheap restaurant
- Marbles: Pearls
- Mazuma: Money
- Mill: Typewriter
- Mitt: Hand
- Mouthpiece: Lawyer
- Mud-pipe: Opium pipe
- Nevada gas: Cyanide
- Rats and mice: Dice, i.e. craps
- Rattler: Train
- Sawbuck: $10
- Soup job: To crack a safe using nitroglycerin
- Souping the kidneys: ?? driving fast?
- Two bits: $25, or 25 cents
June 13, 1970
Last Beatles chart-topper
On this day, "The Long and Winding Road" hits the top of the charts. It was the Beatles' last No. 1 song. The group announced its breakup in April, but their last album, Let It Be, was released just as the announcement was made, and several songs became hits. (And the world was never the same...Rest in peace John and George)
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Hi Karen - this is truly horrifying to see. It is jsut unbelievable to see flooding so widespread as this...
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