Iowans' niceness turned into anger — not at the lack of electricity or the work ahead, but because no one was paying attention.
Grain bins at the Heartland Co-Op grain elevator in Malcom, Iowa, were damaged by a powerful storm that swept through Iowa on Aug. 10., which the national media virtually ignored, Iowa didn’t deserve this:“You get what you sow.”These are just a few of the comments I read in response to athat ran four days after the derecho, a force of widespread straight-line wind storms, tore through my hometown of Cedar Rapids.
Next I heard from my sisters Jeanne and Sue, who both suffered considerable damage to their homes in Cedar Rapids. While my daughter lost power only temporarily, my sisters lost power for days. Sue got it back on Sunday. Jeanne is still waiting. But by Thursday, that niceness turned into anger — not at the lack of electricity or the work ahead. They’d been through the floods of 2008 and 2016. They know all about what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. No, what’s angered them is that they feel as if no one is paying attention — because, for nearly a week, no one really was.
At 2:33 p.m. Monday, Trump tweeted: “Just approved the Full Emergency Declaration for the Great State of Iowa. They got hit hard by record setting winds.” “We’re still without power, after one week. A tree guy from Pensacola said this is easily a Cat 3 or 4 scene,” Beth wrote, referring to hurricane force categories. “The needs in the community are so vast that I’m curled in a fetal position, trying to figure out where to dive in. County residents like us have no pickup for their debris. People with wells and no generators are using buckets for toilets.
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