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By Randy Feenstra Feb 23, 2021 On Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, a massive storm system with high winds and isolated tornadoes tore through the Midwest, leaving a 700 mile path of destruction in its wake – from Nebraska all the way to Indiana. In Iowa, early estimates indicated that 43 percent of cropland was impacted across the state, flattening millions of acres of corn and soybeans, crippling grain bins and tearing barns and machine sheds apart. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimated damages from the storm, known as a derecho, would amount to $7.5 billion, making it the most costly severe thunderstorm in United States history. The highest wind gust was clocked in Atkins, Iowa, at an eye-popping 126 mph and it was estimated that peak wind gusts reached 140 mph. These extreme winds are equivalent of what would be expected in an EF3 tornado or major hurricane.

Sunday Talk: Randy Feenstra on Delivering Relief for Natural Disaster Victims

Panel passes Feenstra proposal to put derecho relief in pandemic aid package

Radio Iowa You are here: Home Panel passes Feenstra proposal to put derecho relief in pandemic aid package Randy Feenstra. The U.S. House Agriculture Committee has added Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra’s proposal for derecho relief to the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill Democrats are planning to pass. Feenstra, a Republican from Hull, says the bill sets aside a total of $4 billion for U.S.D.A. programs. “There’s part of the bill that sort of looked at helping producers, especially when it came to catastrophes, but the catastrophe was not identified,” Feenstra says, “so I created an amendment that identified catastrophe…as derechos or hurricanes or fires.”

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