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Weird thing: I actually live within 10 miles of Hawkeye Picture Tube, but I'd never actually been there. I just never happened to have a CRT that was worth having rebuilt and that was in bad enough shape to need it.
As some of you know, there has been some considerable flooding in some parts of central and eastern Iowa. I knew downtown Des Moines was in pretty fair shape overall (though part of the downtown area had been evacuated on Friday as a precaution), and while I wasn't sure where Hawkeye Picture Tube was located, I figured it was 'up the hill' on the east side towards E 14th St, and the only flooding I saw on E 14th was some seepage in the public park bordering the river levee on the north, and in an open field on the south. This morning I started thinking about it again, so I checked the phone directory. and saw that it's actually located only about 4 blocks from the river, and I seemed to recall that things were pretty flat in that area. So, I went down there to check things out.
Turns out everything (above ground, at least) is dry in that neighborhood, but, as you can see, it appears that Scotty & Co. didn't take unnecessary chances, as the entire building is surrounded by sandbags holding down plastic sheeting. Looks like the majority of the other business/home owners in that area haven't sandbagged their properties at all, so they must not have considered that to be an imminent danger.
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