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One of the city's largest employers, Case Corporation, had been threatened with rising flood waters, due to its proximity to the riverfront, and due to the closeness to a levee that was severely damaged due to constant rains in the area, by the morning of June 15, Case had ceased all production, and ordered a shutdown of the plant, allowing ...
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Floodwater of the Iowa River entering the garage and basement of the Ashton House, July 6, 1993. The basement level of the Ashton House was flooded in both the Great Flood of 1993 and the Iowa flood of 2008. The latter flood caused an estimated $177,247 in damages to the property, valued at $487,388 prior to the flood. [5]
Iowa cities along the Mississippi River are enduring flooding this week as water moves downstream from parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin hit by the same late June storm system that sent northwest ...
The flood have hit parts of Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota. The water was so powerful that it pulled down a train bridge connecting North Sioux City, South Dakota, with Sioux City, Iowa.
The Des Moines River at Humboldt, a small city about 105 miles north of Des Moines, was forecast to crest Wednesday at 17 feet, more than a foot higher than its record in 1969, according to the ...
In Burlington, the Mississippi reached three different crests, before hitting 22.3 feet (6.8 m) on June 10, the fourth highest stage in the city's history; as of June 15, the expected crest was supposed to be around the 25.8-foot (7.9 m) mark, which would make it the second worst flood in the city's history, surpassing 1993 by 0.7 feet (0.21 m).
The rising Mississippi River tested flood defenses in southeast Iowa and northwest Illinois as it neared forecast crests in the area Monday, driven by a spring surge of water from melting snow.
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