We had flooding in CR in 1993, seemed like it rained every other day all summer. The river flooding was in the spring, but there was plenty of basement flooding happening in July (I had water in the basement of the house I was renting on July 4th).
I do remember coverage of the Des Moines floods in 93, trucking in drinking water, President Clinton hugging distraught Iowans. They had it way worse than CR. That year, anyway.
Then June 2008 nearly washed CR away with a 31+ foot crest of the Cedar when it had never gone over 20 feet before that. 1993 floods didn’t prepare us for 2008.