The Floodwaters
Midwesterners are still battling rising floodwaters after days of violent storms in the region. Some towns have been forced to evacuate while others, like Cedar Falls, Iowa, mobilized to successfully save their homes from the rising waters.
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Thousands forced out by US floods
Flooding forces at least 24,000 people from their homes in the US state of Iowa and devastates crops.
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36,000 Iowans homeless as floodwaters recede
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Marie Welton figures her daughter will have to bulldoze her flooded home here. She worries about the survival of her own business, a children's hair salon, as people recover from epic flooding that put 1,000 blocks underwater.
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Water woes cost D.M. $619,000
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Levee failures and damage from heavy rains in recent weeks have caused Des Moines city leaders to make $619,000 in emergency repairs. Some of the repairs were needed so quickly, officials said, that there wasn't enough time to seek bids for the work. These were the problems and the damage totals: - A sanitary sewer pipe collapsed near South Union Street and Kirkwood Avenue, which caused one lane of South Union to be closed; $29,500 in damage. |