By: Hollie Hojek
hhojek@kcautv.com
Nearly every street you drive down in Remsen Iowa, you can see people picking up twigs and cleaning up even bigger messes left behind from Tuesday night's storms.
"We were sitting there watching TV, unaware that the weather was going to be like this...then all of a sudden a branch hit the house and we thought, 'Oh my word, we better look outside.' And it was blowing pretty good by that time, so were out here doing what every other neighbor is doing, cleaning up their yards so it looks good again," said one homeowner in Remsen.
Winds reportedly reached up to 70 miles per hour in some areas, snapping tree branches in half and even downing some power lines. And while some folks had big messes to clean up ...others had just a few fallen twigs and branches to pick up in the yard.
"We had some wind. Not too bad, took a few branches down, you can tell laying around here what's down, a few dead trees went down," says James Moritz, from Remsen.
It was a similar scene in Merrill, Iowa where a tree snapped in half and branches covered the street.
"The wind was coming in from the West and it was raining real hard, I looked out the window I just saw the rain blowing down and the wind blowing like the devil," said George Kale of Merrill.
And despite having to clean up their yards this morning, folks in Remsen say they consider themselves lucky, because they know things could have been a lot worse.
