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Iowa braces for flooding with more rain on the way
The river is expected to crest Tuesday in Cedar Rapids.
The Associated Press on September 26, 2016
The river is expected to crest Tuesday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa’s second largest city with a population of about 130,000. Officials there warned people to evacuate downtown areas of the city near the river by 8 p.m. Sunday.
“We have emergency personnel that can help you if needed,” Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett said Saturday. “They’ll risk their lives for you. But we don’t want them to risk their lives.”
At the Cedar Valley Montessori School in downtown Cedar Rapids on Friday, about 100 volunteers from area high schools helped move all the school equipment above the ground floor.
Stacy Cataldo, head of the Montessori school, told television station KCRG that many remember how flooding damaged the school in 2008 and don’t want that to happen again.
“We’re applying those lessons as we move forward,” she said.
Just upriver in the small town of Palo, about 100 homes in low-lying areas were evacuated Saturday.
Mayor Tom Yock told the Des Moines Register that volunteers and work crews scrambled Saturday to protect as much as possible of the town, which was devastated by record flooding in 2008.
Many people moved their belongings to the upper levels of their homes and built sandbag barriers before evacuating, he said.
Iowa braces for flooding with more rain on the way
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