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After Devastating Derecho, Midwest Takes Stock Of The Damage

A powerful windstorm flattened crops, toppled trees and crumpled grain silos. Days later, communities are still assessing the damage.
Corn plants are pushed over in a damaged field in Tama, Iowa. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said that early estimates indicate that 10 million acres, or nearly a third of the state's cropland, was damaged in a powerful storm.

Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in and , and some roads are after a powerful windstorm wreaked havoc in the Midwest on Monday. The violent winds spread from South Dakota

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