VINTON, Iowa (Iowa’s News Now) — While many people didn’t know what a derecho was before it hit five years ago, one family farm in Vinton had already been through one less than a decade before.
Cody Johnson of Johnson Farms in Benton County said he and his brother were eating lunch, watching the weather, when wind gusts of 140 miles per hour started shaking their shop.
“We had our two dogs with us. My brother and I dove underneath the rear axles of the trailer as quick as we could, held the dogs between us, and as I looked up at the ceiling, it just ripped off,” Johnson said. “For about the next 25 minutes, we just held the dogs and laid in about six inches of water and waited for the storm to quit.”…