A year after Derecho
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While many families have yet to pick up some of the pieces the derecho storm from May 12, 2022 left strewn across their yards and fields, others are getting back to the business of rebuilding their barns or outbuildings, further repairing their homes, or planting new trees around the yard or in their groves.
Permit applications for new buildings this spring continue to come before the Moody County Zoning board. Countless beautiful old trees, barns, signs, grain bins, and other outbuildings came down in the intense dust storm. Other structures have since been rebuilt.
You may remember, the severe line of storms that passed across our region that day started in central Nebraska. As they moved north and northeast, weather officials stated that they formed into one massive storm, stirring up a haboob ahead of it (dust storm). The intense weather system carried winds more than 100 miles per hour and picked up massive amounts of dry soil from drought-stricken Nebraska and southern South Dakota along the way.