Interview with Cedar Rapids resident Kathy Alter
Kathy Alter, web content editor for The Gazette Newspaper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, tells her personal story of being evacuated from her home and the resulting problems with going back in to her home (she says there are 12,000 people displaced), dealing with FEMA, her disabled mother (she got stuck in the bathroom in the hotel because it was not handicap accessible), and issues with needing dialysis available only on the other side of the river (Kathy is an end stage renal disease patient). “The stuff that was there was just stuff,” she says, “the important thing is that we both came out of it and we both came out of it relatively healthy.” (8:04)
June 17, 2008
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Dawn –
Believe it or not, I think I’ve already found us a place to live that’s totally handicapped accessible. I am so grateful for that and can hardly believe my good fortune.
It was great meeting you and the interview sounds good, too.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:45 am
[...] A radio reporter asked to interview me yesterday, you can hear the interview here. [...]
June 24th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
[...] Those people… lost everything. So many people lost everything, and when I finally got on my airplane to go home, I could barely speak. I am reminded, though, that stuff is just stuff. One of my interviews, Kathy Alter (the web content editor for The Gazette in Cedar Rapids) said just… [...]