Iowa’s capital swamped by Midwestern floodwaters
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - A levee holding back rising floodwaters broke and swamped Iowa’s capital on Saturday as officials across the Midwest reinforced levees, helped displaced residents and cleaned up the mess left by the region’s worst flooding in 15 years.
Nice headline. The capital of Iowa is Des Moines. I’m changing my home page now…. that wasn’t a typo or a small grammatical error, thats stupidity in journalism.
Nick
The story did in fact say Des Moines is Iowa’s capital. The problem was, it said it in the fifth paragraph, leaving readers to presume that we thought the dateline, Cedar Rapids, was the capital. We should have been much clearer from the start: GBU Editor
REUTERS photo by Eric Thayer
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