Residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, are working to clean up days after a destructive tornado ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute, took the lives of four residents and injured dozens more.
Greenfield, Iowa resident Kimberly Ergish describes the tornado that struck her home as “10 seconds of pure terror.” Ergish and her family survived the storm with minor injuries.Greenfield, Iowa resident Kimberly Ergish describes the tornado that struck her home as “10 seconds of pure terror.” Ergish and her family survived the storm with minor injuries.Greenfield, Iowa resident Kimberly Ergish describes the tornado that struck her home as “10 seconds of pure terror.
The havoc spun by Tuesday’s tornado in Greenfield showed on the faces of people still processing how quickly homes and lives were shattered — some in mourning and many grateful to have been spared.Wind towers crumpled after Iowa wind farm suffers rare direct hit from powerful twisterOn Thursday, he tried to find any of his grandparents’ mementos that remained after the tornado demolished their home, leaving little more than its foundation.
“You look around and are just so grateful that the community didn’t lose more than what we did,” Beitz said. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds praised the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response on Thursday as she sought a disaster declaration for multiple counties. After surveying Tuesday’s destruction, the National Weather Service determined that three separate powerful tornados carved paths totaling 130 miles across Iowa, according to Donna Dubberke, the meteorologist in charge in Des Moines.
The weather service will have to investigate to determine how powerful the tornado was and for what distance it was on the ground, she said.
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