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Article: River swamps Cedar Rapids; Water drives thousands from homes; 2 die as state reels from deluge.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2008
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Byline: AMY LORENTZEN - Associated Press
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has ever seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000.
As many as 10,000 townspeople driven from their homes by the rain-swollen Cedar River took shelter at schools and hotels or moved in with relatives.
At Cedar Rapids' Prairie High School, where 150 evacuees waited, people could be seen crying in the cafeteria while others watched flood coverage on TVs set up in the gym. Tables were ...