This is the final post for the Central US Floods and Tornadoes Online Newsroom. While this is the last post, the recovery and relief efforts will continue. We would like to thank the hard working Red Crossers in the field who made this disaster operation, as well as this website, successful. To all those in the affected areas, we wish you a swift and complete recovery.
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Slide show created by Dave Martin, Parish Manager of St. Wenceslaus Church in Cedar Rapids. The pictures are taken near and around his church and the surrounding neighborhood:
As storms caused deadly flash flooding across the central United States, the American Red Cross has mobilized relief workers across the affected states.
Nearly 1100 Red Cross workers, including more than 900 volunteers, are deployed throughout the widespread area of Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
Jeffery Biggs and Barbara Behling of the American Red Cross:
The hustle of the flood disaster relief operation in Wisconsin came to a short pause Thursday afternoon around 3 p.m. as the Disaster Relief Operations Headquarters in Madison was placed under a tornado warning forcing Red Crossers to huddle in the designated “safe zone.”
After the danger had passed the Red Crossers resumed their job of helping the people of Wisconsin recover from the tragic flooding that had blanketed the southern third of the state earlier in the week.
On June 6 unusual thunderstorms began a series of deadly flash floods across the midwest. President Bush declared major disasters in 29 counties in Indiana alone.
Posted by American Red Cross 
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