Parkersburg is just a tad north of where I live. It has been a constant stop on my many trips north to Minneapolis. The devastation is hard to even explain. That only 5 were killed is nothing short of a miracle.
My Way News - Iowa town measures the loss after deadly tornado
May 27, 5:07 AM (ET)
By JAMES BELTRAN
(AP) An onlooker takes a moment to survey damage in Parkersburg, Iowa, on Monday, May 26, 2008, a day...
Full Image
PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) - Fred Everts held back tears as he surveyed a pile of splintered wood and metal scraps that the day before had been his and his wife's home.
Several yards away, a makeshift sign was placed amid the rubble to remind Everts and others that they were in Russell Circle, once their street.
"We have no place yet," the 85-year-old said. "We were trying to get it cleaned up and save the stuff that's precious to us."
Everts was one of hundreds of people who spent Monday picking up what was left of their lives after a tornado ripped apart a stretch of northern Iowa a day earlier, killing six people, four of them in Parkersburg and two others in nearby New Hartford. In neighboring Minnesota, a child was killed by violent weather in a suburb of St. Paul.
No comments:
Post a Comment