Iowa unveiled new state flood maps today, eight flooding that hit cedar rapids and other parts of eastern iowa in 2008. Those floods devastated areas that people didnt people who experienced flooding then know if theyre still in the path of danger. The sixyear effort to create and update maps. Started in 2010. The Program Costs 15 Million Dollars. And the Us Department of housing and urban development funded most of it. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman joins us from along the cedar river in cedar rapids. Dave, just how extensive is the flood mapping that is finally wrapped up . Beth, the mapping doesnt just cover major the Iowa Flood Center studied every single stream that drains more than one square mile of territory and mapped out the flooding potential. The Iowa Flood Center may consider the mapping officially complete now. But the city of cedar rapids used the data this fall to fight off the second highest crest ever on the cedar rapids. The information compiled by the flood center pred
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A series of devastating tornadoes wreaked havoc across western Iowa on Tuesday, resulting in multiple fatalities and widespread destruction in several communities, as severe storms continued to pummel the Midwest, CNN reported.
Some Iowa communities are waking up Wednesday to sift through the rubble of now-unrecognizable homes and mourn the deaths of neighbors who were killed by a series of tornado-spawning storms that tore through the Midwest Tuesday and are now threatening a much broader swath of the US.