Tornado Sweeps Through Iowa High Winds Flatten Homes in Plains…
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- Tornado Sweeps Through Iowa High Winds Flatten Homes in Plains…
- 5 new hurricane fighters for your home
- It’s a hurricane (readiness) party.
Tornado Sweeps Through Iowa High Winds Flatten Homes in Plains…
CBS News – Jun 2, 2007
The twister ripped away the four walls of the post office in the town of Fruitland leaving a clear view of post office boxes and equipment inside amid piles of rubble and tree limbs. In Muscatine population 23000 some roads were closed with fallen trees and were impenetrable by car. Friday’s tornado with winds between 136 mph to 140 mph struck the town of Grandview went north through Fruitland and dissipated in the Muscatine area about 10 minutes later said Jeff Zogg a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Davenport. Several people were hospitalized but none with serious injuries authorities said… The twister ripped away the four walls of the post office in the town of Fruitland leaving a clear view of post office boxes and equipment inside amid piles of rubble and tree limbs. In Muscatine population 23000 some roads were closed with fallen trees and were impenetrable by car. Friday’s tornado with winds between 136 mph to 140 mph struck the town of Grandview went north through Fruitland and dissipated in the Muscatine area about 10 minutes later said Jeff Zogg a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Davenport. Several people were hospitalized but none with serious injuries authorities said. Heavy rains also poured across the region causing flooding and several traffic accidents including one fatal wreck. In Grandview a town of about 600 oak trees were shredded in various parts of town and debris from flattened homes littered the streets. ne brick house stood roofless while a few uprooted trees had busted through a nearby garage.
5 new hurricane fighters for your home
St. Petersburg Times – Jun 2, 2007
a former steel analyst for Prudential Securities and inventor of the Hurricane Hutch a waterproof secure steel trunk to hold valuables. "When I saw the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the only thing left was the concrete slabs of homes and all of those horrible sights of people losing their possessions – not just valuable things but memories pictures children's drawings etc. – I thought of my child (I now have two children) and thought 'If anyone could make something to withstand the ravages of a hurricane or tornado the steel industry could ' " he said in an e-mail. "So I created the Hurricane Hutch one Saturday morning on a PowerPoint program. " He expects to bring it to market later this year. Dan Johnson of Clearwater agreed to help out his brother-in-law Tony Woodruff who invented the WaterBB a giant plastic bag that rests in the bathtub to store drinking water. Johnson had some warehouse space in Clearwater and knew something about marketing "and Tony said 'I'm just the inventor I don't know what I'm doing ' " Johnson said.
It’s a hurricane (readiness) party.
Free with registration – rlando Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 2, 2007
(02-JUN-07) rlando Sentinel (rlando FL). 2–Learn about hurricane preparedness at W. Bland Public Library’s storm-awareness party at 6:30 p.