Cleanup underway following storms that ravaged Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois

CHARLOTTE, Iowa (KWQC) – Following a number of storm programs that ravaged components of Jap Iowa and Western Illinois, neighborhood members in Charlotte and Clinton County have been out and about since roughly 8 a.m. Saturday morning to wash up the aftermath of the EF2 twister that touched down of their cities.

A number of houses have been destroyed and energy traces have been down when our TV6 crew arrived in Charlotte Saturday morning. Alliant Vitality was on the scene making an attempt to revive energy to a number of blocks within the city.

Group members got here collectively to haul tree limbs and branches away in vans, clear up shingles and different particles from houses, and help each other throughout a troublesome time of rebuilding. One volunteer, Dawson Stoll, stated the neighborhood simply got here collectively and began serving to, with out even being requested.

“We began north of city, choosing up individuals’s yards, slicing up limbs and stacking wooden right into a dump trailer ang going to dump it and simply refilling and this fixed cycle,” Stoll stated. “Everyone’s actually working collectively.”

One farmer in Charlotte, Steve Dickey, lives proper up the hill from his farm and recalled his expertise through the storms.

“You couldn’t see any twister from up there,” Dickey stated. “It seemed prefer it was raining actually laborious down right here after which we received a name from the neighbor saying there was smoke down there.”

Dickey stated his preliminary response to the injury was extra jarring than watching the storm itself roll in.

“Makes you sick while you checked out it,” Dickey stated. “I’ve by no means seen a stave silo blow up like that appears like someone put a bomb [in it]. And I’ve by no means seen that occur earlier than and the roofs and stuff you type of assume they’re gonna go however that silo when the stave silo was broke down. I assumed man, that is gonna be unhealthy, and it was.”

TV6 spoke with Clinton County Sheriff Invoice Greenwalt Saturday morning and he confirmed there have been no casualties and no critical accidents from the storms and the neighborhood will proceed to work collectively to rebuild their down.

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