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Archive for June 16th, 2008
Iowa Flooding Leaves 36,000 Homeless
Via the Associated Press (AP):
As Iowa City hoped to elude the worst damage, the state had a multi-front battle on its hands. State officials warned of problems ahead for a string of towns in southeast Iowa along the Mississippi River, led by Burlington, a key railroad hub.
“It’s likely that we will see major and serious flooding on every part of the southeastern border of our state from New Boston and down,” Culver said. “We are taking precautionary steps, we are evacuating where necessary, but that is going to be the next round here.”
Early Monday, more than 36,000 residents in 26 communities had been evacuated from their homes, said Kevin Baskins of the state Emergency Operations Center. Most of those—25,000—were in Cedar Rapids, and another 5,000 in Iowa City, he said.
And where is Geroge Bush? Well he is on vacation in Europe, having dinner with Gordon Brown and Rupert Murdoch while crowds outside chant “George Bush terrorist” and “Arrest George Bush.”
Gosh, wasn’t he on vacation the last time an American city/region of our country flooded?
