by Jason Noble in Special Section
BLENCOE, Iowa (MCT) - The collar of Zach Jessen's scout uniform was scuffed with dirt. His arm was welted and bruised and his back, he said, looked like someone had gone over it with a baseball bat.
Despite all that, Zach was up, active and cool as could be at 7 Thursday morning - scarcely 12 hours after he rode out a tornado at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in Western Iowa.
'We're racing against time, water' as three more feet expected
by Alyssa Cashman in Special Section
IOWA CITY, Iowa (U-WIRE) - Only the tops of parking meters are visible in the muck. The sandbag wall, which volunteers spent countless days erecting, has been breached in many places. A fine layer of water on the ground floor of Mayflower has developed.
The North Dubuque Street residence hall is taking on water.
by KSU Wire in Special Section
UWIRE - A tornado that ripped through Kansas State University's campus Wednesday night damaged a building housing a nuclear reactor, officials said in a statement Thursday.
The reactor is stable and was shut down Wednesday before the tornado hit, according to an alert filed with the U.
by Christopher Patton in Special Section
IOWA CITY - A proposed and rejected project to comprehensively examine areas near the Iowa River after the 1993 flood may have allowed more accurate predictions this year.
The project was known as the Comprehensive Flood Impact-Response Modeling System. It would have allowed people living along the Iowa River to track how the discharge rate from the Coralville Reservoir would affect the water level at any given location immediately up or downstream.
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