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A Moderate May Flood

Hamburg

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2019
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The Junction of Flood and Community

Pacific Junction

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2019
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Living With and Loving the Iowa River

Meskwaki Settlement

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2019
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Areal Flooding in Hancock County, 2019

Hancock county, Iowa

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2019
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Floods and 21st-century Traffic on the Mississippi

Upper Mississippi

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2019
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Declaring and Proclaiming Disaster

Keokuk County

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2019
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Water Quantity and Quality Questions

Hardin County, Iowa

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2019
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Melting and Flooding: 2019 Style

Monona County

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2019
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2018 Snow and Rain Challenge Agriculture

Osceola County

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2018
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A 2018 Flash Flood in Winnebago County: A Twenty-First Century Sudden Strike

Winnebago county, Iowa

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2018
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Flash Floods and the Challenges of Warning

Worth county, Iowa

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2018
Flood Tornado

Persistent Weather Dangers: Tornado, 1925; Flash Flood 2018

Franklin county, Iowa

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2018
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Flood of 2018

Tama county, Iowa

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2018
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High Water and the Red Bridge

Jasper County

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2018
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Flood, July 21-22, 2017

Clayton county, Iowa

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2017
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21st-Century Surprises

Winneshiek County

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2016
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Heavy Rains and High Water

O'Brien county, Iowa

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2016
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Red Oak’s Levee Recertification

Red Oak

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2016
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Cedar River Cresting

Vinton

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2016
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The 2016 Flood in Chickasaw County

Chickasaw County, Iowa

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2016
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The Flood of June 2014

Rock Rapids, Lyon county, Iowa

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2014
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Flooding: a Familiar Word

Cherokee county

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2013
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Flood of 2011

Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie county, Iowa

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2011
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The Missouri River Flood of 2011

The Missouri River, Woodbury County, Iowa

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2011
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Flood of 2010

Ames, Story county, Iowa

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2010
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Averting a Crisis

Maquoketa

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2010
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Twenty-first-century Floods

Jones County

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2010
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Floods of 2008 and New Flood Maps

Henry county, Iowa

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2008
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The Flooded Cedar River at Waverly, 2008 and 2016

Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa

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2008
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Managing the Iowa River

Iowa County

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2008
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The 2008 Flood in Waterloo

Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa

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2008
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Floods of 1929, 2008

Veterans Memorial on Mays Island

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2008
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Flood of 2008

Iowa Midland Supply Inc

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2008
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Des Moines County Flood of 2008

Des Moines County, Iowa

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2008
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The University of the Iowa River

The University of Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa

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2008
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The Long Arc of Flood Recovery: Fontana Park 1999

Fontana Park, Buchanan County

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1999
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The 1998 Flood

Atlantic

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1998
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Davenport and the Great Flood of 1993

Davenport, Scott county, Iowa

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1993
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Floods of 1993

Tama county, Iowa

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1993
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Flood of 1993: Crops Overindulge

Flood of 1993

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1993
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The 1993 Flood in Kossuth County

Kossuth county, Iowa

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1993
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Sandbagging Businesses in 1993

Johnson County, Iowa

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1993
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The Great Flood of 1993

The Great Flood of 1993

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1993
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The Flood of 1993 and The Bridges of Madison County

Madison county, Iowa

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1993
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Prelude to the 1993 Flood

Lucas county, Iowa

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1983
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Between Emerson and Red Oak

Emerson to Red Oak

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1982
Blizzard Drought Flood Heat Insects Tornado

Changes on the Land

Wright County

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1974
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Burlington Flood of 1965

Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa

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1965
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History of Floods in Clayton County to 1965

Clayton County, Iowa

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1965
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Gambles Lost and Won: Scott County Flood of 1965

Davenport, Scott county, Iowa

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1965
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Flood of 1962

Ida Grove, Ida County, Iowa

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1962
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Was It the Flood of 1953?

The Wapsi and Maquoketa River Basins

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1953
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The Wild Missouri

Pottawattamie County

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1952
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Cause or Coincidence? Inundation and Disease, 1952

Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa

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1952
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Flood of 1947: Duck Dinner

Flood of 1947

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1947
Blizzard Drought Flood Heat Insects Tornado

Weather Observers, Citizen Scientists

Black Hawk County, Iowa

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1945
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Flood of 1944

Ames, Story county, Iowa

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1944
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Floods of 1941

Taylor county, Iowa

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1941
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Perils and Rescues on the Rivers of Warren County

Warren County

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1930
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Flood of 1929

Williams and Hunting Company, Linn County, Iowa

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1929
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A 1922 Winter Flood in Chickasaw County

Chickasaw County, Iowa

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1922
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Rain Records and Floods: the Twentieth Century and the Twenty-First

Dubuque county, Iowa

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1918
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Wagaman Mill and the Flood of 1918

Jasper County

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1918
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High Water and High Hopes for Picturesque Hardin County

Eldora Pine Creek State Park and Buckeye

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1918
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The Flood Under Eureka Bridge

North Raccoon River, Greene county, Iowa

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1912
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The Creek that Moved Buildings

What Cheer

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1911
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El Cometa: Community of Box Cars

El Cometa: Community of Box Cars

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1906
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The Anita Republican Reports

Anita

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1903
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A Mayor’s Plea

Cherokee county

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1891
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Flood of 1891

Ida Grove, Iowa

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1891
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Hail and the Meskwaki

Audubon county, Iowa

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1883
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Why It’s Called the “Big Muddy”

Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie county, Iowa

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1881
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Crossing Boone Bridges

Boone County, Iowa

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1881
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Clay County Flood of 1881

Spencer, Clay County, Iowa

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1881
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The Independence Day Flood of 1877

Greene county, Iowa

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1877
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The Tragic Rockdale Flood of 1876

Rockdale, Dubuque county, Iowa

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1876
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Living (and Dying) on the Iowa River and Bear Creek

Northern Iowa County

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1866
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Impassable Roads in Chickasaw County and the Rains of 1858

New Hampton, Chickasaw County, Iowa

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1858
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The Wet Year of 1858 and Union Slough mini-akapan-kaduza

Kossuth county, Iowa

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1858
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The Wild Wapsipinicon River and the Floods of 1858 and 1865

Buchanan County, Iowa

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1858
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The Wet Year that Drove Settlers Away: 1858 in Bremer County

Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa

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1858
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The Weather and Migration After the Killings at Spirit Lake

Fort Dodge, Iowa

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1857
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Two Views on Flooding

Union County

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1857
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Melting and Flooding: 1856-57

Monona County

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1856
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The Grove that Never Was

Eagle Grove, Wright County

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1855
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Fire and Water in Early Grundy County, 1855

Grundy county, Iowa

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1855
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Creek Flooding in Worth County 1854

Worth county, Iowa

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1854
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Early Floods in Lyon County

Lyon county, Iowa

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1851
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The Chickasaw Flood Story

Chickasaw County, Iowa

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1851
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The Floods of Dallas County

Dallas county, Iowa

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1849
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Floods and Early River Transportation

Iowa River

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1841
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Klinkenbeard’s Flood, 1840

Jefferson county, Iowa

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1840
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Swimming to that Next Meeting

Bellevue to Linn County

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1838
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Early Flooding in Lee County

Lee county, Iowa

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1833
Drought Flood Heat

People on the Move

Blood Run

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