Government Orders Iowa Residents to Abandon Homes

ALLEN G. BREED and JIM SALTER
Associated Press
June 16, 2008

IOWA CITY, Iowa – A week’s work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn’t spare this bucolic 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.

The swollen river, which bisects this city of about 60,000 residents, was topping out at about 31.5 feet — a foot and a half below earlier predictions. But it still posed a lingering threat, and wasn’t expected to begin receding until Monday night.

“I’m focused on what we can save,” University of Iowa President Sally Mason said as she toured her stricken campus. “We’ll deal with this when we get past the crisis. We’re not past the crisis yet.”

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