# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dav8F3zDFcl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67965813-dmregister-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-13T22:00:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

## Caption

This time, tenants at Parkside East Apartments believed they were safe.

Rainwater had rushed into the rent-capped Des Moines complex in 2010. Water submerged units again eight years later, forcing some of the city’s poorest residents to bounce between hotels and makeshift shelters in public schools until repairs were made. 

Now, a July 3 flood has forced the complex to close and repair some units for the third time in 16 years, leaving renters scrambling to find temporary housing and replace possessions.

“That apartment complex, that’s awful,” Polk County Conservation Executive Director Rich Leopold said. “We need to do something about that.”

But what? 

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#DesMoines #Iowa #DSMUSA #flooding #weather

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