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Article: Cedar Rapids flood recedes but cleanup remains
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- June 15, 2008
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When Kathy Wiebold moved into her ranch-style house a couple years ago, people assured her it wasn't in the flood plain and had never flooded. So she didn't purchase the extra insurance.
Now, she's planning to ask her sister from New Orleans how she bounced back from Hurricane Katrina.
"I had the floors so nice and clean," Wiebold, 59, said Saturday as she poured bleach on her concrete kitchen floor and spread it around with a broom. "What the hell can you do about it?"
As the record flooding continues its slog eastward across Iowa toward the Mississippi River, the answer officials say, is get out of the way and wait.
Floodwaters were receding ...