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Derecho devastates Iowa towns twenty years ago
A derecho swept across Town twenty years ago causing over 150 million dollars in damages across Iowa including Des Moines and near Iowa City. Trains were blown from tracks and homes ruined while corn fields lay flattened and thousands of trees felled. Wind gusts reached 123 mph in Washington Iowa. debris injured over 100 people with no fatalities.
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