Cedar River
A number of cities, and rural areas, suffered serious flooding, the most extreme being that in Cedar Rapids.
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Famous quotes containing the words cedar and/or river:
“He packed a lot of things that she had made
Most mournfully away in an old chest
Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
In with them, and tore down the slaughterhouse.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“The river knows the way to the sea;
Without a pilot it runs and falls,
Blessing all lands with its charity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)