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The Iowa City flood of 2008: a librarian and IT professional's perspective.(Editorial Board Thoughts)
Do you like to chase fire trucks? Do you enjoy watching a raft of adventurers go over the waterfall, careening from rock to rock? Well, this is a story of the Iowa City flood of 2008, a flood projected to happen once every five hundred years, from the perspective of a librarian and IT professional.
* The approach of the flood
The winter of 2008 was hard, and we got mounds of snow. The spring was wet that year in Iowa City. It rained almost every day. Minnesota's snow melt-off hadn't been released from the reservoir due to the heavy rains. Everyone watched the river rise, day by day. The parks were underwater; the river was creeping up toward buildings, ...
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