Local residents clean up debris from a home damaged by a tornado Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Greenfield, Iowa.
In Iowa, the Greenfield tornado obliterated homes, splintered trees and crumpled cars in the town of 2,000 about 55 miles southwest of Des Moines. The twister also crumpled massive power-producing wind turbines outside the city. Through Tuesday, 859 tornadoes had been confirmed this year, 27 per cent more than the U.S. sees on average, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Iowa has so far recorded the most, with 81 confirmed twisters.Sign up for breaking news alerts from CTV News, right at your fingertips
People as far as 100 miles away from Greenfield posted photos on Facebook of ripped family photos, yearbook pages and other items that were lifted into the sky by the tornado. Roseann Freeland waited until the last minute to rush with her husband to a concrete room in their basement. Seconds after the twister passed, her husband opened the door "and you could just see daylight,” Freeland said. “I just lost it. I just totally lost it.”
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