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flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2008
flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2008 After devastation from severe flooding in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 13, 2008, the Iowa National Guard Soldiers and Airmen worked with state and local agencies to provide security and help with flood relief operations.

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flood, high-water stage in which water overflows its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land, such as a river inundating its floodplain. The effects of floods on human well-being range from unqualified blessings to catastrophes. The regular seasonal spring floods of the Nile River prior to construction of the Aswān High Dam, for example, were depended upon to provide moisture and soil enrichment for the fertile floodplains of its delta. The uncontrolled floods of...

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