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Article: Iowa Flooding Rivals 1993 Deluge; Midwestern Storms Swamp Cedar Rapids And Des Moines
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- The Washington Post
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- June 14, 2008
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The sun finally broke through the layers of clouds on Friday, a
reassuring presence after a week of rain. But as residents in and
around this eastern Iowa city surveyed their waterlogged landscape,
they did not like what they saw.
"It looks like Katrina," said a man in a pickup truck who
declined to give his name. He was stuck in traffic that was at a
standstill for 10 miles on the interstate north of the city, gazing
at the Quaker Oats factory and buildings sitting in several feet of
water.
Locals said the flood that hit Iowa's second-largest city is far
worse than the deluge of 1993. About 25,000 residents have had to
leave, and hundreds of homes and businesses have been damaged, many
of ...