CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Sunday marks the five year anniversary of the derecho sweeping across eastern Iowa, bringing wind gusts up to 140 miles per hour.
Mercy Medical Center and Unity Point- St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids sustained damage and lost power.
St. Luke’s had to tear down part of its resource center, an area that was used for office space, because it sustained $400,000 in damage. Both hospitals switched to generator power and kept running. Mercy Medical Center says it had people coming in right away for a variety of needs…