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Huilman said.īecause damage from the storm made her house unsafe to live in, she and her 3-year-old daughter have been staying this week at her parents’ home in Cedar Rapids, where neighbors gathered to create a schedule for use of the single generator on the block. In Cedar Rapids, “there wasn’t a property that was without damage of some sort,” Ms. She died at a hospital, he said, but the child was unharmed. The Fort Wayne Fire Department in Indiana found a 73-year-old woman clutching a 5-year-old in an overturned mobile home, Deputy Chief Adam O’Connor said. The man, Thomas Rowland, of Solon, Iowa, “sustained severe injuries that ultimately took his life at the scene,” the sheriff’s office said. In Iowa, a 63-year-old man who was biking on a trail was struck and killed by a falling tree, according to the Linn County sheriff’s office. At least two people died as a result of the severe weather. The rare group of storms, called a derecho (pronounced deh-REY-cho), brought hurricane-force winds of over 100 miles per hour to the Midwest. Some residents had to drive out of town to find gas to power generators. School reopenings in several districts were delayed because of the storms. One neighborhood posted a makeshift “dead end” sign as residential roads were blocked and homes were smothered by fallen trees. The storms wreaked havoc beyond knocking out power to the region: Traffic on Interstate 380 in Cedar Rapids was halted when semitrailer trucks were overturned on the northbound and southbound lanes.
“We still don’t have power back,” she added as she watched workers trying to remove a 75-foot tree that had crashed onto her one-story home, puncturing its roof and intruding into the living room and dining room. “Is it Thursday?” Clarissa Huilman, 34, who lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said in a phone call. In Iowa, about 200,000 people were without power. Nearly 100,000 people in Northern Illinois were still without electricity on Thursday morning, according to ComEd, the utility company that services the area. A group of storms that tore through the Midwest this week has left homes destroyed, crops demolished and over a quarter of a million people still without power days later.
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