When Disaster Strikes

Double Trouble

For Lin Hartman, manager of the University of Iowa's in-plant, one flood would have been plenty—but he got two.

The lesser of the two deluges occurred in June of 1990 at Hartman's Iowa City-based shop. About 7˝ of rain backed up a local creek, subsequently submerging the in-plant. No equipment was lost during this flood, but the shop was covered with mud after the water subsided. But that was just a glimpse at what was to come.