Much of US Broils in Heat While Flooding Forces Evacuations in Iowa

Much of US Broils in Heat While Flooding Forces Evacuations in Iowa
People visit the beach at Coney Island on a sweltering afternoon on the first weekend of summer, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on June 22, 2024. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Floodwaters forced people out of their homes in parts of Iowa, the result of weeks of rain, while much of the United States longed for relief Saturday from yet another round of extraordinary heat.

Sirens blared at 2 a.m. in Rock Valley, Iowa, population 4,200, where people in hundreds of homes were told to get out as the Rock River could no longer take rain that has slammed the region. The city lacked running water because wells were unusable.