Parkersburg Tornado

Missing House

NWS personnel have rated the Parkersburg-New Hartford-Dunkerton tornado as EF 5 (correlated to wind speeds up to 205 MPH) on the Enhanced Fujita Scale at the locations of maximum damage. ~ This is the first EF5 tornado in Iowa since the Jordan tornado of June 13, 1976.

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Tornado in Parkersburg, Dunkerton, New Hartford, Hazelton, Manchester, Lamont
Aftermath 2 3 4 5…
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Telectroscope

Telectroscope

In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope – an 11.2 meter (37 feet)long by 3.3 meter (11 feet) tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean.