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Record Flood of 2008 - Ten Years Later

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix

Published August 3, 2018 at 11:49 AM CDT

showing the areas of C. Rapids affected by the 2008 flood, with downtown in the center of the map.

The record flood for the Quad Cities was 1993, but for Cedar Rapids and eastern Iowa it was 2008 - and ten years later restoration and replacement work is still going on.

On Midwest Week, Herb Trix's guest is Brian Morelli, reporter for The Gazette, in Cedar Rapids.

You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered.

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Herb Trix

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.

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