One of the strangest things about having our home destroyed three weeks after we bought it has been the attention we’ve gotten from the news media. On Friday of last week our story made the front page of the Iowa City Press-Citizen. We also made the on-line flood picture gallery for the press-citizen. And we were even in the Des Moines Register. Andrew submitted our flood footage to cnn.com iReport and within 20 minutes he was receiving phone calls from 5 different producers wanting to interview him. Our story has now been featured on cnn, cnn.com, and will play on Headline News this weekend.
In clinic yesterday a patient said she was so glad she could come in despite all the flooding and asked if it was hard for me to get to work. I mentioned that my house was underwater- the one I’d just bought 3 weeks ago- and she knew my whole story. Andrew said he was walking around downtown yesterday selling ads for his Little Village magazine and everyone knew who Andrew Sherburne was because of the news media coverage. So, I guess we’re famous! I mean, not celebrity status, but it sure is interesting. Here are links to some of the media coverage if you’re interested:
