CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL

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CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL - ISSUE 242749 - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025

Iowa Tornado Flattens Homes, Businesses and Wind Turbines

Tornado

Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) has issued an emergency disaster proclamation for 15 counties, which makes available state resources for cleanup.

June 17, 2024
Annemarie Mannion - Engineering News-Record

Business owners and residents are picking up the pieces after a tornado tore through south-central Iowa May 21, devastating the town of Greenfield, about 60 miles southwest of Des Moines, by destroying homes and businesses, toppling MidAmerican Energy Co. wind turbines and damaging the Adair County Memorial Hospital.

Reprinted courtesy of Annemarie Mannion, Engineering News-Record

Ms. Mannion may be contacted at manniona@enr.com

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