I am back. One day without cell phone service (250 U.S. Cellular towers knocked out by the derecho -U.S. Cellular is the dominant cell phone company in Eastern Iowa). When U.S. Cellular came back, for the first day we were at 1G and calls were dropping and there was no internet on the phone, either. We did not lose power, but 700,000 did lose power. My landlines were down two-days, and internet down two-days, both from service provider, cable company, Mediacom. My town is 45-miles north of Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapidians got hit hard. Some still have no power after Monday's storm. We had no damage here other than to communications. Instead of our folks shopping in CR, Cedar Rapidians were clearing out our shelves, and buying our gas. That's good payback. And, with so little news that isn't political news, I don't think many people even knew 700,000 people lost power.
That said, I was thinking tonight, the Midwest could host the Rose Bowl this Spring. Let's make the Left Coasters travel for once. Put the Rose Bowl in Ann Arbor, the Outback Bowl in Soldier Field, the Citrus Bowl will be replaced by the Corn Bowl, yeah - you got it. Iowa City. Now where could we have a Midwestern Holiday Bowl? Columbus just doesn't seem like the right town to take a holiday in, let's put that in Madison. Let's have the Capital Bowl in DC or at College Park, preferably DC.
Make the ACC, SEC, and PAC-12 come here; the weather will be nicer, and they can learn about the Midwest for a change.
