August 1, 2008
Hospital evacuates as Cedar River floods
The community turned out to help sandbag at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As Mercy Medical Center's OR nurses were readying their patients for their 7:30 am cases on June 12, the Cedar River, some 10 blocks away, was edging dangerously close to the top of its banks. Because the hospital was on the city's 500-year flood plain, it was hard to imagine the waters reaching that far.…
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