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More than 400 cityblocks are still underwater

More than 400 city
blocks are still underwater

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More than 400 city blocks are still underwater.
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5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:45:19
Uploaded
Jun 25, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
RadicalMedia,National Geographic

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As the weather grows more deadly and destructive, Americans are demanding solutions to climate change — and they aren’t waiting on Washington to act.
HOGG (off screen): 15 inches of rain over the entire Cedar River Basin over two weeks. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:06
HOGG (off screen): 15 inches of rain over the entire Cedar R...
And we had a flood stage of 31 feet, more than 10 feet higher than any previous flood. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:07
And we had a flood stage of 31 feet, more than 10 feet highe...
Other communities, up river, it was worse. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:04
Other communities, up river, it was worse.
This is the marker I wanted you to see. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:04
This is the marker I wanted you to see.
This is a marker that we put up for the flood of 2008. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:04
This is a marker that we put up for the flood of 2008.
This comes up to my, to my shoulders and this is how deep it was. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:05
This comes up to my, to my shoulders and this is how deep it...
VANCE: This was the garage, the closet, there's a electrical panel and furnace. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:06
VANCE: This was the garage, the closet, there's a elect...
We had six and a half foot of water on the main level of the house for over a week. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:07
We had six and a half foot of water on the main level of the...
Stuff that was in our bedroom wound up in the garage and stuff that was in the garage - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:14
Stuff that was in our bedroom wound up in the garage and stu...
Yeah, it's kind of spooky being in here. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:05
Yeah, it's kind of spooky being in here.
In 2008, I wasn't going to rebuild my house and then everybody said, well, - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:08
In 2008, I wasn't going to rebuild my house and then ev...
It's never happened in 150 years, so we did, but then in 2016 it did it again. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:07
It's never happened in 150 years, so we did, but then i...
REPORTER (over TV): Right now thousands of Iowans have packed their belongings and - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:08
REPORTER (over TV): Right now thousands of Iowans have packe...
VANCE: It's kind of like playing poker and I lost. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:05
VANCE: It's kind of like playing poker and I lost.
SWINTON (off camera): We basically had two 500-year floods within eight years. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:06
SWINTON (off camera): We basically had two 500-year floods w...
Now we're thinking, well, now we need to do something because these 500-year floods - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:09
Now we're thinking, well, now we need to do something b...
They're happening with more frequency. - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:05
They're happening with more frequency.
The rain is so much heavier, so rather than get four or five-inch rains, - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:08
The rain is so much heavier, so rather than get four or five...
TAKLE: What's causing most of our flooding is driven by the fact that the Gulf of Mexico, - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:10
TAKLE: What's causing most of our flooding is driven by...
The more we heat the atmosphere, - Paris to Pittsburgh 00:06
The more we heat the atmosphere,