Sen. Grassley Op-Ed: Historic Derecho Tests Pandemic-Weary Iowans
September 08, 2020
September 08, 2020
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following op-ed:
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In my years of farming and representing Iowans throughout the past half-century, I've never seen such widespread, catastrophic damage in our state. Uprooted and stripped century-old trees, mile after square mile of flattened cornfields and mangled grain bins from one county to the next looked like scenes from an apocalypse.
The National Weather Service reports th . . .
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In my years of farming and representing Iowans throughout the past half-century, I've never seen such widespread, catastrophic damage in our state. Uprooted and stripped century-old trees, mile after square mile of flattened cornfields and mangled grain bins from one county to the next looked like scenes from an apocalypse.
The National Weather Service reports th . . .