Linn County was destroyed. 75% of the trees are destroyed. No power for one week and counting. My street has 10 foot high, 12 foot wide or larger tree debris lining every foot of street with most debris still in the yard. And it is much worse in many, many areas. My own lot has 75% of the trees destroyed, 2 holes in the roof and a 10 foot high, 14 foot wide deck 50 feet long ripped from the house in its entirety. The city wide, county wide destruction is unimaginable. Recovery is decades away. 75 mile wide, hundreds of miles long inland hurricane. Like thousands of tornados with the worst of it focused on a county of 200k. And Reynolds and Grassley spend 5 days looking corn fields.
Last night about 8:30 in a dark city, I went to the local grocery store. The only business open in this part of town. When I was leaving, some guy asked if we just had a tornado here. He was from Michigan, heading to Des Moines and had no idea the town was leveled 5 days ago. Tornadoes do not destroyed this much. Hurricanes do. But people get warnings when hurricanes happen. We had nothing. Reports of bad things west. Mostly heresay. The city I have lived in my entire life no longer exists. The skyline is no longer filled with trees. The floods in 2008 destroyed all the places I grew up. Monday destroyed the rest of it. My nights are now filled portable generators, my days with chain saws.
And yet, nothing at all in the news. In fact during the day of the storm, all local radio stations went off line. The first to come back had Hannity. Local coverage has been gutted by the gop. But my airwaves are filed with hurricane reports.
Thanks America. You truly do suck these days.
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An inland hurricane tore through Iowa. You probably didn’t hear about it.
