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Some numbers from the Iowa floods:

• Fatalities from flooding: 3
• Evacuees: Roughly 36,000 Iowans in 11 counties, including 25,000 in Cedar Rapids.
• Counties declared presidential disaster areas: 18. A total of 83 counties area covered by a disaster declaration by Gov. Chet Culver.
• Iowa National Guard soldiers deployed: 2,500
• Sandbags: 4.8 million
• Gallons of drinking water distributed:180,930
• Acres of soybeans lost: 2 million
• Acres of corn lost: 1.3 million
• Tillable acres of farmland under water: 16 percent of the state’s 25 million acres.

via the Burlington Hawk Eye

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