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Floodwaters swamp Iowa town; drinking water all but gone (AP)
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Created 06/13/2008 - 8:58pm

First avenue looking southwest is flooded in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 13, 2008.<br /><br />(Frank Polich/Reuters) [1]AP - Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has ever seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000.


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[1] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_re_us/midwest_flooding