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Article: River slowly dropping at Cedar Rapids; other Iowa, Illinois cities facing new flood dangers
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- June 14, 2008
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Days after it rose out of its banks on its way to record flooding in Cedar Rapids, the Cedar River has forced at least 24,000 people from their homes in the Iowa city, emergency officials said Saturday.
The bleak news came as swollen rivers breached levees in the state capital, Des Moines, and in far western Illinois, leading to the evacuation of hundreds more homes.
The flooding in Iowa is the latest disaster created by severe storms blamed for at least nine deaths in the U.S. Midwest this past week.
The drenching has also severely damaged the corn crop in Iowa, America's No. 1 corn state, and other parts of the Midwest at a time when corn prices are soaring and food ...
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