Dry Creek swells into raging river threatens homes
Firefighters and neighbors sandbag homes along Dry Creek in Robins and Hiawatha as floodwaters surge after Tuesday’s rain. Joyce and Robert Jared fear for their mobile home at 2791 Robins Rd as water encroaches, while Ryan and Abby Reid face loss in their floodplain house at 129 North Wood Dr.
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the Gazette
Hiawatha
Joyce
Robert Jared
Robins Rd
Joyce Jared
Robins
Dry Creek
Dale Entwisle
Main St
Tom Ulrich
Linn County Emergency Management
Indian Creek
Metro
Jareds
Ryan
Abby Reid
Northwood Dr
Ryan Reid
Reid
Hiawatha Fire Department
Flooding Across Eastern Iowa Triggers Widespread Damage
Eastern Iowa endures heavy rains and floodwaters as the Maquoketa River crest approaches Manchester. Towns including Monticello, Dyersville, Cascade face evacuations and submerged homes while sandbag walls fail at a sewer plant. Officials declare disaster areas and bypass wastewater plants to prevent sewage backups.
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Cedar Rapids
Clayton
Clinton
Delaware
Dubuque
Jackson
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Quad Cities
Dyersville
Maquoketa River
Cascade
St. Francis Xavier Basilica
U.S. Highway 20
Tom Pins
Patrick
Kathy Valant
Delhi
Valants
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Randy Lansing
Department of Natural Resources
Iowa
Barb Lynch
Linn supervisor candidate evacuated as flood hits Sun Valley
Linda Langston Linn County supervisor hopeful and her Sun Valley neighbors fled Sunland Court SE on Tuesday afternoon as Indian Creek surged, flooding about 25 homes. She noted water rose quickly, boats ferried residents, and basement windows blew out while sewer backups echoed 1993, leaving no flood insurance for many.
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Cedar Rapids
Linda Langston
Linn County
Sun Valley
Sunland Ct
Indian Creek
Langston
Sunland Ct. SE
Indian Creek floods raise Cedar Rapids flood fears
Residents along Indian Creek compare damage to the 1993 flood as water breached a five foot retaining wall and flooded Sun Valley homes. Across East Post Road nearby basements filled while two churches and a Christian school sustained water damage. Local police report the scale of flooding as worse than 1993.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Indian Creek
Mike Klappholz
Klappholz
Red Fox Road
Sun Valley
East Post Road
Green Valley
Bever Avenue
Darcy Honick
Farmers assess flood damage and soil loss in county
Kent Kluver, head of the Farm Service Agency in Manchester, notes unofficial rainfall reports of up to 8 inches in southeast Delaware County and 3.5 inches in the county north end. He cites gullies and washed terraces as fields struggle to absorb heavy rain. yields may drop, but full impact will be clear at harvest.
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Kent Kluver
Farm Service Agency
Manchester
Delaware County
Kluver
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