The storm known as a derecho tore from eastern Nebraska across Iowa and parts of Wisconsin and Illinois, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles and causing property and crop damage
Residents help clear a fallen tree from an intersection after a severe storm in Iowa City, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2020.Hundreds of thousands across the Midwest remained without power on Tuesday after a powerful storm packing 100 mph winds battered the region a day earlier, causing damage linked to the death of a woman found clutching a young boy in her storm-battered mobile home.
“They had to stabilize the trailer, crawl inside the trailer, find the two victims and bring them out,” O’Connor said.He said it took firefighters 14 minutes to remove the woman from the debris and lift her through the door of the trailer – now on its roof because it was toppled onto its side – in an area of Fort Wayne’s northeast side where there was widespread storm damage, including damaged trees.
“While we’re unable to quantify the number of acres lost at this time, we’re hearing of widespread crop damage,” said Keely Coppess, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. “We’re also aware of commercial and on-farm grain storage losses, which may affect storage capacity during harvest.”About 150,000 customers in Iowa and another 50,000 in the Illinois Quad Cities region were without power, MidAmerican Energy reported Tuesday morning.
Power and Internet outages were widespread in the state’s three largest metropolitan areas, of Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport, where residents continued to clean up tree damage.
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