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A Cedar Rapids nonprofit born out of the disaster caused by the 2020 derecho is working today to meet some very different ...
SOT: TREES FOREVER“we lost an estimated 70% of our tree canopy in 45 minutes, so that’s estimated at 670,000 trees. We went ...
A Cedar Rapids nonprofit born out of the disaster caused by the 2020 derecho is working today to meet some very different ...
Nearly one million of the trees felled in the 2020 derecho were in Linn County alone, and the damage left rural and urban ...
"It was chaos. So no cell service, no electricity, you couldn't cook food. Just driving through the community. Just trying to ...
The August 2020 derecho inflicted billions of dollars in damage across the Midwest, including a massive economic impact in ...
Born out of the 2020 derecho, the Cedar Rapids Neighborhood P.A.C.T. Program breaks down what you can do before an emergency ...
Five years ago, destructive prolonged wind gusts of up to 140 mph blew through Iowa, felling trees, flattening crops, ripping ...
She was among the estimated 1,200 refugees displaced by the Aug. 10, 2020, derecho when it caused heavy damage to several closely clustered apartment buildings here. With wind speeds of up to 125 ...
Editors and reporters work in a temporary newsroom space at Color Web in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. After the derecho storm on Monday, Aug. 10, left the Gazette staff without power ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia. — On a once-quiet street in the Mound View neighborhood, chainsaws have rattled for nearly a week as neighbors work to remove trees from their roofs, cars and the middle of the ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) -- Central and eastern Iowa were hit the hardest as the derecho carved its 770-mile path through nine states. In Linn County, where damage was particularly bad, the ...