IOWA: Wake Of The Flood by: PhawkerPosted on: June 14, 2008December 18, 2022 ASSOCIATED PRESS: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has ever seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000.