IOWA CITY, Iowa — A week’s work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn’t spare this college town from the surging Iowa River, which has swamped more than a dozen campus buildings and forced the evacuation Sunday of hundreds of nearby homes.
Flood levels still disastrous in Iowa City
Sunday, June 15, 2008 | 8:05 p.m. CDT;
updated 12:49 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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