The small city of Vinton, home to 5,000 were forced to evacuate a 15 block area where water was already 3 feet deep. In Waterloo, Iowa, water swept away a railroad bridge and prompted the city to shut its downtown and close five bridges.
A sandbagged levee has so far been preventing Cedar River from rising out of its banks and flooding Cedar Falls, but city officials are calling for more volunteers to help secure the levee as more rain is expected in the area.
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