Major flooding has occurred after recent thunderstorms on Thursday and Friday caused rivers in Iowa to break their banks.
From CNN:
Officials recommended that downtown residents and businesses evacuate parts of downtown on both sides of the river by 6 p.m. Friday. Included are all areas in Des Moines’ 500-year floodplain.
The alert was prompted by rising [...]
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Last month, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake caused an atrocious amount of damage, leaving some 87,000 people dead or missing. Millions more were left homeless and the landscape of the region was massively altered by the ensuing floods and shifted earth.
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