A very damaging windstorm, called a derecho ripped through the midwest on Monday, August 10th 2020, causing unprecedented damage across a wide swath of Iowa and other midwestern states.
In addition to the extreme damage and power outages experienced by Cedar Rapids, DesMoines, Iowa was also hard hit.
Classmate Laura (Walters) Anspach and her husband Glenn were safe after the storm blasted through their Des Moines neighborhood. Laura has shared some photos of the aftermath of the storm so that we can appreciate the raw power that nature unleashed on the Midwest.
Laura narrates the damage:
“We lost lots of branches. We had several trees toppled and one broke off at the ground.”
“We lost the pool fence at the east and west ends.”
“One large branch landed on the barn. Fortunately the barn was the only building damage that we know of.”
“Moving the downed branches and trees to the edge of the road took out a lot of the grass on the east side.”
“I so wish we had a way to get the good wood to the native Americans at the mission in South Dakota as that is how they heat their homes.”
“The weather man was freaking out the night of the storm because the wind shear was showing white on the weather radar screen and he’d never seen that level.”