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 | Brandon Stearns helps to remove flood-damaged items from his 83-year-old grandmother's home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Iowa's biggest cities were submerged June 14 2008 after swollen rivers forced thousands of residents to flee their homes amid devastating floods in the Midwestern US state. click to open  |  | House boats from the Ellis Marina on the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids lie jammed and destroyed against the Quaker Oats railroad bridge after breaking free from their moorings in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 13, 2008. Overflowing rivers in Iowa forced evacuations and disrupted the region's economy on Friday with fears of worse to come from fragile levees and more rain. Thousands were forced to leave their homes in the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years. click to open |  | First avenue looking southwest is flooded in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 13, 2008. click to open |  | An aerial photo shows a flooded area of downtown looking North over Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 13, 2008. Interstate I-380 can be seen at top while Mays Island, with Cedar Rapids City Hall, is seen on the left with its bridges under water. Floodwaters have inundated about 100 city blocks of Cedar Rapids, Iowa's second-largest city with 200,000 residents. click to open |  | Abandoned cars sit in floodwaters in the parking lot of the Quaker Oats plant in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 13, 2008. click to open |  | A motorist drives down a flooded street in Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 12, 2008. click to open |
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