tornado damage recovery News

A year ago, Chris and Daye Alexander surveyed their tornado-ravaged Louisiana fruit farm in disbelief. Wind-whipped hail had bruised and flattened thousands of blossoming blueberry bushes. A 3-acre field of strawberry plants all but disappeared. Blackberry bushes planted the previous …

More than $374,000 in donations has helped people recover from a tornado that pummeled the western Iowa town of Mapleton. The Sioux City Journal reports that the money for the Mapleton Tornado Relief Fund came in from all over the …