On June 13, 2008 downtown Cedar Rapids was flooded by historic high waters on the Cedar River.Friday 17 years since that ...

On June 13, 2008, the Cedar River crested to a historic 31.12 feet, 11 feet higher than the river had gone before. Seventeen years later, Cedar Rapids is more t ...

New: Alice Galvin of Cedar Rapids stands on Fifth Street ... Dubuque Street near the Park Road bridge in Iowa City Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Flooding is expected to worsen in Iowa City in the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa-- Residents are leaving low-lying areas of Cedar Rapids, adhering to a request by authorities to clear out by 8 p.m. Sunday due to the risk of flooding from the rising Cedar River.

The Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, crested at less than 22 feet Tuesday morning, about a foot lower than expected as recently as Monday, testing but not defeating nearly 10 miles of temporary ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) -- The City of Cedar Rapids is taking steps to prevent potential flooding as the Cedar River is expected to crest on Saturday. The Cedar River is expected to crest around ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia. — When the Cedar River began to rise last month, Craig Seeley drove to the bank and marveled at the engineering feat — 10 miles of temporary flood walls, constructed in a ...

While Cedar Rapids was the worst hit, the entire state of Iowa was battered by bad weather and flooding. Gov. Chet Culver declared 83 of the state’s 99 counties as disaster areas. In Des Moines ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia. — As with most sequels ... Also like a typical sequel, the plot of this flood has been more ponderous and procedural. And everybody saw it coming, with about five days ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) -- June 13 marks the 16th anniversary ... more than 31 feet in Cedar Rapids which resulted in massive flooding all across the city. The city had declared it the ...

Temporary barriers appeared to prevent serious flooding Tuesday in Iowa’s second-largest city, but officials are warning thousands of evacuated Cedar Rapids residents to stay away for a couple ...

Some residents also were ordered to evacuate homes along rivers in Iowa City and Coralville. In Cedar Rapids, a city of about 124,000, flood waters downtown neared the top of stop signs and cars ...