With a little more than a week left of my internship, the Delhi Dam in Iowa broke. Although the event was extremely tragic to those involved and brought back nightmares of the Flood of 2008 that hit Eastern Iowa, it gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. I worked my way through the Delhi area to tell the stories of those affected, in hopes it would get them the help they needed.
The coverage expanded through the state of Iowa and made front page news on websites across the country, before being published in the print versions of the New York Times and Time Magazine.
Here is some of the coverage - all photos by Julie Koehn/The Gazette.
This photo received Iowa AP photo of the month for July.
