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Sunday, Aug. 10, marks 5 years since one of the worst storms in U.S. history. Iowa's tree population has yet to recover.
Five years after a devastating derecho hit Iowa, the state continues to feel the effects of the storm that caused extensive ...
Sunday marks five years since a record-breaking and devastating derecho moved across the state of Iowa.The August 10th, 2020 ...
An estimated 2.67 million trees in Iowa forests and another 4.4 million trees in urban canopies were killed or damaged by the ...
Five years ago, pictures told the story of the derecho. The 140 mph winds that hit Eastern Iowa on Aug. 10, 2020, downed ...
Five years ago, destructive prolonged wind gusts of up to 140 mph blew through Iowa, felling trees, flattening crops, ripping ...
August 10, 2020 is a day many in eastern Iowa remember vividly as sunny skies quickly turned dark and winds picked up for ...
"It was chaos. So no cell service, no electricity, you couldn't cook food. Just driving through the community. Just trying to ...
A Cedar Rapids nonprofit born out of the disaster caused by the 2020 derecho is working today to meet some very different ...
Corn across the state is a couple of days ahead of schedule, with 53% of corn acres reaching the dough stage and 9% entering ...
While Tuesday's storm was not a derecho, Iowa did experience one in July. Iowa last saw a derecho on July 15, and that storm produced an EF1 tornado that hit the northwest side of the metro.
The derecho that hit Iowa in August of 2020 had winds that peaked in the Cedar Rapids area around 140 miles an hour. The storm destroyed more than seven-million Iowa trees and caused some $11 ...