After the deluge

After the deluge

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There were valuable parallels between the flooding in Iowa and Hurricane Katrina. But the media looked in the wrong places The distinctive beep of an car alarm being activated prompted many in southwest Cedar Rapids front yards to slow their flood cleanup and watch a man exit a vehicle with out-of-state license plates. "He set his car alarm?" asked a woman as she carried one end of a friend's soggy and smelly sofa to the curb. A flooded-out property owner considered and then jokingly replied: "Someone must have told him about all the homeless people in this area." [caption id="attachment_1807" align="alignleft" width="350"] The Tree of the Five Seasons is in the distance as floodwater swirls around the federal building at the corner of 2nd Ave SE and 1st St SE in downtown…
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