"""12 AUGUST 2020 - SLATER, IOWA: A crew from XCel Energy, a Minnesota utility, repair power lines in Slater Wednesday. Power to the town was knocked out in the storm Monday. More than 145,000 Iowans are without power more than 48 hours after the storm. According to Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, the storm damaged 10 million acres of corn and soybeans in Iowa, about 1 one-third of Iowa's 32 million acres of agricultural land. Justin Glisan, Iowa's state meteorologist, said the storm Monday, Aug. 10, lasted 14 hours and traveled 770 miles through the Midwest before losing strength in Ohio. The storm was a seldom seen """"derecho"""" that packed straight line winds of nearly 100MPH. The storm pummelled Midwestern states from Nebraska to Ohio.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ"""
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