interview

Over the weekend I talked to my uncle and I asked him some questions about his job. He works with one of my grandfathers. I asked him what kind of construction he does. What are his average hours a day? Where has he been working the past year or so?



He has been working more of a commercial construction. This is the construction of buildings, sports centers, grocery stores, and these kind of things. He has been working long days of about 7 in the morning to about 6 or 7 at night. He also had talked to me about working with a lot of the flood buildings down town in Cedar Rapids. He said he has been working down town a lot for the past year. He said, "it reminded him a lot of doing his house after the flood had hit it."

After the floods of 08' he decided he didn't want to deal with it again so now he is living in a new house. He had told me that rebuilding his house was the last thing he wanted to do. And after doing a bunch of construction downtown it just makes him think about the stuff he had to do after the flood.

FLOOD VIDEO

The video i put on here shows the downtown area of Cedar Rapids during the flood. It shows how high the water was at certain times. And if you can picture in your head, think of all the damage that caused and how much it would take to fix it. Three of my family members lived in the same area and all got flooded and it took forever to fix up the houses and all that. And if you were a construction business during that time you made a killing. Think of all the business' downtown that needed fixed up and like i said my uncle is still working on a lot of the buildings.