Sioux City, Iowa — Thunderstorms rolled across Iowa early Tuesday bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Winds were clocked between 60 and 70 miles an hour in Sioux City just before midnight. Numerous power lines were knocked down by falling tree limbs. Sioux City Fire Captain Ryan Collins says they did have to rescue two people after a tree toppled.
Collins says they had some three dozen calls of trees down on power lines. He says some neighborhoods were blacked out after losing power and that makes responding more dangerous.
MidAmerican Energy spokesperson Tina Hoffman says line damage from trees can take longer to repair.
There were some 13 hundred customers without power as of 10 a.m. and Hoffman says they may not have all of the power back on until six this evening.
There are reports of trees down in Cherokee and Plymouth counties too.
