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Children play on some of the downed trees near Redmond Park in Cedar Rapids in the wake of the Aug. 10 derecho.
Six months after the derecho carved a path of devastation across Iowa, the city of Cedar Rapids is advancing a plan to regrow its urban forest. It will take years to restore the towering trees that were leveled by the hurricane-force winds; some 70 percent of the public tree canopy has been lost since the storm.
The sight of massive, centuries-old trees uprooted entirely were among the most searing images in the aftermath of the Aug. 10 derecho. The breathtakingly intense straight-line wind storm leveled trees older than the state of Iowa, some peeling back the earth as they bowed and shattered beneath the 140 mile per hour winds, comparable to a Category 4 hurricane.
6 Months After Iowa Derecho, Planners Yet to Assess Lessons
Six months after an unprecedented disaster, county, city and non-government organizations in Linn County have yet to decide how they’ll ensure emergency communications get to the public should another such storm strike. by Erin Jordan, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa / February 11, 2021 A black walnut tree damaged in the Aug. 10 derecho storm is seen on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, at the Iowa Arboretum in Madrid, Iowa. TNS
(TNS) - With fallen power lines and cell network interruptions, communication was one of the biggest challenges after the Aug. 10 derecho.
Six months after that unprecedented Iowa disaster, county, city and non-government organizations in Linn County have yet to decide how they will ensure emergency communications get to the public should another such storm again strike in and around the state s second-largest city