Iowa derecho 2020 photos: A look back at the devastation and cleanup

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The photos in this collection were chosen out of the hundreds taken by Gazette photojournalists during and following the Aug. 10, 2020, derecho in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas in Eastern Iowa.

Passing drivers stop to help the driver of a tractor trailer after it overturned laying down in the northbound side of Interstate 380 near 76th Avenue SW in Cedar Rapids on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Two men worked to remove the windshield and the woman, a registered nurse, made her way into the cab to check on the driver who had no apparent injuries. The woman then took the driver to her car to sit with her and wait for an ambulance to arrive.

Violette Ntibangana looks out the window of her bedroom at the Glenbrook apartments in Cedar Rapids on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. The apartment's roof was torn off and is now covered with a tarp while the family stays with friends in the complex. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

A trail of flattened soybeans shows the path of a flattened silo during the storm as it hit a farm near Norway, Iowa on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Cleanup continues around the area following the Aug. 10 derecho, which left hundreds of thousands of Iowans without power and displaced many whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the heavy winds. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Laurie Berdahl stands in her front yard beginning to clean up downed limbs around her home in southwest Cedar Rapids on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Berdahl's home suffered only minor damage but like most of the city she was without power.

Neighbor Robert Estabrook (left) fist bumps Phil Rogers after Estabrook along with other neighbors Jeremiah Hawkins and Patrick Marx worked to remove a large tree that fell on top of the house Rogers lives in at the corner of 8th St. SW and 8th Avenue SW in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Using chainsaws, chains, cables, a winch and a pickup truck Estabrook, Hawkins and Marx were able to remove the tree so the roof could be tarped in preparation for storm that are forecast. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Electrical workers repairing downed power lines along Highway 13 near County. Home Rd. in Marion, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. People are still cleaning up and without power after the Aug. 10 derecho storm. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Traffic attempts to move past downed power lines and trees along Bowling Street following a derecho Cedar Rapids on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

A tree fell onto an auto mechanic and home at the corner of Mount Vernon Road SE and 15th Street SE in Cedar Rapids after a powerful storm with straight-line winds moved through Iowa on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Ivan Guinard of Cedar Rapids clears a tree from 16th Street SE in Cedar Rapids after a powerful storm with straight-line winds moved through Iowa on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Guinard lives nearby and said his home and his bike were both spared, so he was clearing streets with his chainsaw. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

A City of Cedar Rapids front loader clears a path from downed trees on Chandler Street SW in Cedar Rapids on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Debris surrounds the Glovik Parish Center at St. Wenceslaus in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, following a storm Monday afternoon. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

The Stars & Stripes is caught in tree branches after a severe storm as Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds tours the storm damage at Marion Square Park in Marion, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg saw the damage from Monday's inland hurricane as they visited communities across the state. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

A line of downed utility poles is seen blocking 18th Street SW in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Grant Whitmore (from left), Jason Kirk and Peter Delaney roll a tree trunk while cutting it apart at Whitmore's home in northwest Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Mike Jacobis pushes a portion of tree trunk away as a neighbor helps on the ground in northwest Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The tree, which fell in Monday's storm, fell and damaged Jacobis' porch and the roof over a second-floor bedroom and closet. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Iowa Department of Transportation workers help with tree debris removal as grain bins from the Archer Daniels Midland facility are severely damaged in Keystone, Iowa, on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Richard Ortega (right), a firefighter with the volunteer Keystone Fire Department, moves a tarp as he and his son Aiden, 13, cover a large hole in their home in Keystone, Iowa, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Part of their neighbor's house was blown over their home, hitting it and severely damaging it. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Cathy Hafsi stands on her front porch looking out at the damage in her front yard in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Hafsi has cerebral palsy and cares for a housemate who also has cerebral palsy. Both of them, especially Hafsi's housemate, rely on power chairs, to get around and have struggled to keep them charged without power after Monday's derecho storm ravaged Eastern Iowa.

Alliant Energy utility workers work on power lines in the 300 block of Forest Drive SE in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

June Cook (left) hands a gallon of milk to Melody Mrstik (center) as she and Nick Brewer get food in front of the Cedar River Academy at Taylor Elementary in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. HACAP and Hy-Vee, in coordination with the City of Cedar Rapids, distributed food to people in a caravan of vehicles and some that walked up to the gathering. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Dave Malecek lays down in the grass alongside his niece, Molly, 15, while they volunteer with family to help Jeff and William McQuiston clear a tree from their property in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Jeff McQuiston grills a variety of meats hoping none of the food from his freezer goes to waste as he works to try and feed his neighbors or anyone else that comes by in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020.

Carson Lang (left), 15, ties off an apple tree to a stake as Zack Pisney (second from left), 15, Isaac White (second from right), 14, and Aaron Loecke, 14, with the Boys Scouts of America's Venture Crew 2000 steady the tree at Allen's Orchard in Marion, Iowa, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Members of Venture Crew 2000 stacked up over 400 apple trees in an effort to save some of them for future seasons. Chris Gensicke, owner of Allen's Orchards, said that he lost about 800 trees of the 3,200 trees at the orchard during Monday's storm. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Jesson Ngo, 13, of Cedar Rapids pushes a wheelbarrow of food and water followed by his brothers to take to their mom at the HACAP Mobile Food Pantry at Veteran's Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020.

Gov. Kim Reynolds meets with Cedar Rapids school officials including Superintendent Noreen Bush at Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. The school has water damage from multiple holes in the roof. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Cleanup from water damage is underway at Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. The school has water damage from multiple holes in the roof. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Jeremiah Hawkins puts a ladder to get on the roof of a neighbor's house as he, along with Patrick Marx and Robert. Estabrook work to remove and cut up a large tree off Phil Roger's house in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Sekhar Mahadevan carries a cutup tree section as cleanup continues at the Eastern Iowa Hindu Temple, 1700 Naoma Dr SW, in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. According to Krishna Iyer, the temple sustained damage to a corner of the roof and also had water damage during Monday's derecho. Krishna Iyer says that the temple is home to 300-350 stable families and close to 1,000 people attend from the area. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Volunteer Shane Hatch of Center Point, Iowa, cuts limbs from a tree along Second st. SW during a Community Storm Relief Effort location in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. The effort is a clearinghouse where volunteers meet and are given assignments collected from residents in need. Supplies such as water, snacks, flashlights and batteries, diapers and other hygiene supplies are distributed, residents can obtain information on assistance. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Victor Bondo of Cedar Rapids holds youngest son Rejoice Bondo, 2, while worshiping at an outdoor church service at First Assembly of God Church in Cedar Rapids on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. The Bondo family's home and car were damaged in Monday's storm. First Assembly held a joint outdoor worship service with River of Life Church on Sunday after both were damaged in Monday's derecho. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Jeremy Kepler passes a pile of debris as he rolls a newly patched tire to a vehicle in the parking lot at Westdale Court Apartments, 2155 Westdale Dr SW, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. Kepler has been patching tires for residents at the complex after they get flat tires from roofing nails and other debris in the parking lot. He borrowed a magnetic sweeper and plans to walk the parking lot with it. People are still cleaning up and without power after the Aug. 10 derecho storm. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Justweetha Phillip packs belongings into bags outside her Cedar Terrance apartment in Cedar Rapids on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. A group of Micronesian immigrants had moved into tents outside the unsafe buildings, and were packing to move to new lodgings on Monday. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Randy Pettit looks looks around his damaged apartment where he and Krista Manos lived at Westdale Court Apartments, 2155 Westdale Dr SW, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. The two huddled at the bottom of the apartment's stairs as they waited for the Aug. 10 derecho storm to pass. People are still cleaning up and without power after the storm. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

A shagbark hickory is among the large trees that fell during the storm last Monday, Aug. 10. Photographed at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

A crew of electricians work to restore power in the alley between the 1700 blocks of Fourth and Fifth Avenues SE in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Brittany Hansen wipes her eyes as she prays in front of her home with Rand Bowman of Michigan and Bruce Button of North Carolina, both crisis chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team, on the southeast side of Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Hansen's home is without power, but she has tried to remain strong and positive for her children's sake. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Jess Karma hands out a bag of charcoal at the Wellington Heights Neighborhood Association resource center in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. The resource center has expanded their hours and services in the wake of the Aug. 10 storm, offering food, toiletries, cleaning supplies, and serving as a central location for donated hot meals. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Josh Whartman stands in his front yard as his father, Paul Whartman, works on rebuilding his son's front porch on the southeast side of Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Josh Whartman's home is without power. He has begun spray painting a daily tally to mark how long it has been since the derecho struck. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Willie Ray Fairley hands a hamburgers and chips to a resident of Hawthorne Hills Apartments as he distributes meals at the complex in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Fairley has become a community hero by cooking and distributing meals to people in neighborhoods affected by the Aug. 10 storm. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

With tarps covering areas where siding was blown off their building, Andrea Santos Guadalupe, 8, hugs her mother Reyna Guadalupe in front of their apartment in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. The family came to Iowa about six years ago from Mexico. People are still cleaning up and without power since the Aug. 10 derecho storm. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Carmen Baker of Cedar Rapids stands in front of her trailer as her mom, Karen Quinnell, extinguishes a cigarette on the front steps at Edgewood Forest mobile home park in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Baker's trailer was rendered uninhabitable by the Aug. 10 derecho storm. Storm winds and fallen tree limbs exposed her roof allowing water in causing extensive internal damage. She and her mom have been staying with Baker's boyfriend, who has a trailer next door to theirs but Baker now worries that repair costs may exceed the value of the 1971 two-bedroom trailer she is renting to own. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

A truck crushed by a fallen tree is seen alongside Carmen Baker's trailer at Edgewood Forest mobile home park in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Baker fears that any further work to cut up the tree and remove it may cause it to shift toward the trailer causing further damage to it or the electrical boxes they rely on. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Electric crews gather near Mount Vernon Road and Highway 13 in Cedar Rapids before deploying around the city on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. By Saturday morning, fewer than 7,000 residents were without power thanks to a massive effort by crews who arrived from around the U.S. and Canada to help repair downed power lines. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

A crew works on the steeple of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Norway, Iowa on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Cleanup continues around the area following the Aug. 10 derecho, which left hundreds of thousands of Iowans without power and displaced many whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the heavy winds. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Clean-up crews pile loads of tree debris in a city lot along Ellis Boulevard NW in Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Cleanup continues around the area following the Aug. 10 derecho, which left hundreds of thousands of Iowans without power and displaced many whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the heavy winds. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

A downed tree lies on its side near debris from a home on the northeast side of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Cleanup continues around the area following the Aug. 10 derecho, which left hundreds of thousands of Iowans without power and displaced many whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the heavy winds. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Crews work to transfer corn from a destroyed silo into a nearby storage bin at the River Valley Cooperative in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Cleanup continues around the area following the Aug. 10 derecho, which left hundreds of thousands of Iowans without power and displaced many whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the heavy winds. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Anne Seidl and Naume Nayino of Hiawatha haul a log out of a yard as Kristine Johnson of Cedar Rapids (left) drags a branch to the curb during a clean-up at a home on Second Street SE in Cedar Rapids on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Jess Karma of the Wellington House Resource Center organized the branch and tree removal effort for those in the neighborhood who have not yet been able to clean up their homes. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Bridgette Williams-Robinson (left) reacts as Jane Carson of Swisher, Iowa, wants to make a monetary donation where Williams-Robinson is set up under Interstate 380 along Eighth Avenue SW in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Williams-Robinson and her family have been providing free meals to anyone in need since Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, the day after the derecho storm hit Cedar Rapids and many other cities and towns. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Terry Brown of Loretto, Minn. works to clear fallen trees from Wood Duck Way, a 1.5-mile trail on the grounds of the Indian Creek Nature Center that was heavily damaged in the August 10 derecho in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The nature center sustained extensive tree damage during the storm, which produced winds as high as 140 mph. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Workers come off the roof after securing tarps on the house at the farm of Lori and Eric Lang in rural Vinton, Iowa, on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The Langs were covering damage from the Aug. 10 derecho storm in preparation for a forecast of severe weather. The Langs lost a 100-year-old barn, two grain bins, almost all of an 80x110 foot outbuilding, damage to numerous trees as well as severely damaged seed corn crop. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Avery Miller, 10, tickles his brother, Abram Miller, 5, as their mother, Lupita Candela (not pictured), works on her computers in their room at the Best Western Longbranch hotel in Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Administrators and teachers from Hoover Elementary have been checking in on families who are displaced or in need because of the derecho. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Kathy Colton of Marion hands a piece of skirting board to Katie Bellows, 17, of Cedar Rapids while working to repair the skirting of a mobile home at Edgewood Forest in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. Matthew 25 volunteers were salvaging skirting from mobile homes that will be demolished and using the materials to repair damaged skirting on other homes in the park. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

A wire is wrapped around a tree stump in Bever Park in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. One month after the derecho, trees have been removed from roadways and paths through the park, and much of the old growth was damaged in the storm. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer (left) leads former second lady Jill Biden (center) and Doug Emhoff (right), husband of Sen. Kamala Harris, on a brief tour of damage left by the Aug. 10 derecho at the Westdale Court apartments in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Yamah Howard (left), a kindergartener in Candice Bolin's class, along with her classmates push dirt into a hole as they help plant an apple tree during tree planting at Cedar River Academy at Taylor Elementary School in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. Kindergarteners from the magnet school helped with planting six apple trees in the orchard at Reed Park. Students each put handfuls of dirt then wood chips as they helped plant the trees. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

LaKricia Browning talks with daughter Elena, 4, while holding baby Blakely at their Hiawatha home on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. Her other daughter, Eliza, 2, is held by friend Angel Green. Browning's rental home was damaged in the Aug. 10 storm, and she navigated renters insurance and finding a new apartment that would accept leased housing vouchers before giving birth to Blakely in late September. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Clint Henik from Carverway of Mount Vernon, Iowa, works to carve an eagle from a log downed in the Aug. 10 derecho storm during the Splinters-Iowa Tree Art Auction at City Square Park in Marion, Iowa, on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. The project, organized by Iowa Big students, is a fundraiser for Trees Forever and its efforts to plant trees to replace the tree canopy lost in the August 10 derecho storm. Artwork created by the four chainsaw artists will be auctioned off at www.32auctions.com between Nov. 23-29. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Nick Rocca, park ranger at Lake Macbride State Park, moves debris onto a burn pile at Palisades-Kepler State Park in Mount Vernon on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. The park has been closed since August, when the derecho damaged many trees within the park. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)