Iowa Tacomas (Idiots.Out.Wandering.Around)

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That sucks!

 

That's right down the street from me! I walk my dog by there all the time.

 

@CygnusX191
@Shellshock

8 Lazy Brook Dr, West Branch, IA 52358 | MLS #202202168 | Zillow

What is everyone's opinion of West Branch? Looks like a picturesque little Midwest town with not-too-ridiculous real estate prices...

 

decent town thats not too far from IC / CR. its expanding just like tiffin and some of the other surrounding towns

 

Iowa City any good? I've got a friend from high school who presently resides in Marion, which I believe is a suburb of CR...?

 

depends what you are looking for and who you ask lol

 

One of you told me to avoid living in Muscatine; What do YOU think of IC?

 

Also, today was a very exciting day!

 

Oh, and did you power come back on?!?!

 

It’s better than Muscatine lol

I lived near lone tree when I was down there

 

Yeah after an hour

 

When Hurricane Irene hit my area in August 2011, the power went out almost immediately and was out for two days; We had a portable generator running the refrigerator, the wireless internet router, a TV, and one cable box but that was it. Two days in August without A/C!



We didn't have a battery backup for the sump pump at the time, and my parents and I literally stayed up all night with buckets bailing out the sump pit so the finished basement wouldn't flood. We kept the basement from flooding, but at the expense of not getting any sleep; I may have gotten a couple hours on the basement couch, but I can't remember. The next day I had school, so I showed up early and took a nap in my truck in the parking lot at college with the A/C cranked.

We had received record amounts of rain in the days leading up to Hurricane Irene, so the grounds were absolutely saturated; The sump pump could have handled it if we had power, but we lost power literally within an hour of the hurricane starting. Needless to say, my parents got a secondary "piggyback" sump pump and a battery backup within weeks of Hurricane Irene so we didn't have a repeat of the all-night "bucket brigade" again!

 

we had a ice storm a while back and a lot of people didn't have power for 7+ days in the middle of winter

 

No heat in winter is worse than no A/C in summer!

 

ehhh depends how cold it is

 

The oil furnace in our old old house shit the bed in February 2007 and it got down to 48 degrees in the house before the HVAC guy could get out there to fix it; Normally I like it cold when I'm trying to sleep, but that was just ridiculous!

 

@CygnusX191

My friend Tiffany lives in Marion; Currently looking at houses there and they are CHEAP!

3140 English Glen Ct UNIT 3, Marion, IA 52302 | MLS #2203907 | Zillow

 

This would be $300K or more in my neck of the woods!