The storm was a straight line tornado that was about six miles wide and 60 miles long. It started in Ames,Iowa and reached it peak at about Marshalltown and continued till past Toledo. Power was off for four days and about a thousand dollars of frozen food had been distroyed.
The weather warning radio announced the coming, a peak out the window showed trees blown in the lightening. Downstairs a peak out the kitchen window was discouraged by branches hitting the glass, so quickly headed for the basement until it was over. Flashed showed the tree outside the patio was down.
In the morning to a tour with a camera.
The view of the downed tree as seen from the deck.
Actually it was split. will it survive?
The deck is surrounded by thornless locus to give a filtered shade. They were permanently bent over.
The kitchen window shows the branches that hit while taking the peak. It must have been the peak of the storm.
Downed braches that did not reach the house.
More, that reached the garage.
And blocked the garage doors.
Seen from the front door.
The driveway was blocked with a tree
The roots came out of the ground.
Broken tree from a row of 75-foot poplar trees.
It is supported by adjacent trees.
Driveway tree seen from the street side.
It had fallen into a Mulberry tree that will have to come all the way down. Another evergreen tree from the windbreak by the road.
It, too, came right out of the ground. A third large evergreen. This row of trees by the road had been thinned the prior year.
Branches were all over

That week the tractor failed and could not get all the way into the machine shed. where trees fell around it. It took several months and $7.000 to get back into service and was missed during the cleanup.
These are trees behind the machine shed.
Between machine shed and corn crib.
Behind corn crib
Adjacent to corn crib
Twenty feet in three directions were torn out of the corn crib.
Feed bunks lost parts of roof with trees fewteen.
Barn, half of north wall and man-door down.
The chicken coop I had build inside the barn supported the roof.
A forty foot wall laying on the ground.
That wall again.
Inside had been used for storage. Hay door on 3rd level was built to open out, not in. The door is handing on it hinges horizonally inside the barn
Trees behind the barn.
we had not photographed that the back (east) wall and other side wall (south) had been blown off its foundation.
Intermingled trees and stock feeders.
Branch the size of a small tree.
Branches of all sizes, all over the properyty.
Others inconviencenced
Start of Cleanup. First order of business was to open the driveway to the outer world.
Story of a tree.
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