Just got off the phone after talking with my good friend, Nancy Sparrow, who was about five minutes ahead of the tornado, she said, when it hit the Muscatine (Iowa) area. She was at the Hardy's (Restaurant) in Muskie (the natives' nickname for Muscatine) waiting for an order of cheesburgers when the wind picked up, the sky got dark and a sheriff's car flew by. On the cell phone to her husband, Chuck, she said, "Hmmm, there must have been a bad accident."
The "accident" was at least one funnel cloud that left 14 miles of devastation.
"It was skippy," Nancy said. "just 300 feet wide in some spots to 1/4 mile wide in others." Over 100 buildings were destroyed including eight homes in Grandview. She said that the windows in 80 cars at the Toyota dealership in Muscatine blew out. The parsonage at her church is uninhabitable, part of the roof having blown off and a couple walls moved. The youth pastor who lived there is just a few weeks away from moving to another home, but temporarily homeless. Fruitland, as I said in yesterday's post, was hit the hardest. Unbelievably, however, there were no serious injuries or fatalities.
"Just cuts and bruises," Nancy said.
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