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Cedar Rapids Under Water: Inconvenient Truth of The Day
Wendy Cohen June 13, 2008 | 2:19 pm EST
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa- The city that “would never flood” is 19 feet under. According to the AP, the Cedar River poured over its banks yesterday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets. Officials estimated that 100 blocks were underwater in Cedar Rapids, where several days of preparation could not hold back t he rain-swollen river.

A downtown hospital was forced to evacuate and all 176 patients, including about 30 patients in a nursing home facility at the hospital, were being transfered to other hospitals in the region.
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