about a weekn iowa before, as i recall. he was in the mississippi in davenport. when the moyne got hit and lost -- when des moines got hit and there were some very touching moments, i think for the president where people ofe up and he heard stories what they had lost. there was one lady in particular think it wasi something like i can't take it anymore. it was a sincere moment. it was not politically staged or anything like that. i think that affected him. he told me he was very impressed by what he saw going on there, what he saw going on in the community. one of the things that impressed me more than anything else -- we did not have water. the national guard would truck water in in these big huge tanker trucks. kind of like you see driving down the highway, hauling other fluids like gasoline, things like that. these were big, huge tanker trucks. they would park the truck at a high school or a shopping mall, and people would come up with their bottles and whatnot. what i recall more than anything else was how these areas of water distribution became like town sq