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Communities launch cleanup after severe weather and tornadoes churn across Midwest : NPR

Communities launch cleanup after severe weather and tornadoes churn across Midwest : NPR

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An aerial view shows damage from a tornado, on Saturday in Lena, Ill. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Communities across the Upper Midwest are cleaning up after tornadoes and severe weather impacted the region over the weekend, damaging and destroying dozens of homes and knocking out power for tens of thousands. “Numerous” severe storms were tracked across parts of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. At least 66 tornado reports were submitted in multiple states including Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Iowa, the NWS Quad Cities IA/IL office said Sunday. No deaths have been reported from the severe weather and tornado outbreak. In Marion Township in Minnesota, about 30 homes were damaged and a dozen have significant damage because of a tornado, according to the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office. The tornado also damaged at least 20 homes in Stewartville and there is a temporary shelter in Rochester for people displaced by the storms, according to MPR News. “Tornado disaster recovery continues to occur at …

Powerful Winds and Reported Tornadoes Rip Through the Midwest, Leaving Heavy Damage but No Deaths

Powerful Winds and Reported Tornadoes Rip Through the Midwest, Leaving Heavy Damage but No Deaths

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A trail of damaged homes and buildings dotted a wide swath of the U.S. on Saturday after a burst of destructive winds and reported tornadoes tore off roofs, uprooted trees and rendered rural roads impassable with debris. No deaths were reported following Friday’s storms, which barreled through the Upper Midwest and delivered the latest round of severe weather to batter the region. Officials braced residents for a long recovery in some rural communities. “We are extremely fortunate that this storm did not result in loss of life or serious injury,” Stephenson County Sheriff Steve Stovall said of the storm that hit Lena, Illinois. Officials in Wisconsin and Minnesota echoed those sentiments. In central Wisconsin, a reported tornado that tore through the cities of Kronenwetter and Ringle left behind damaged homes and some residents briefly trapped in their basements, Ringle Fire Chief Chris Kielman told reporters. Marathon County Sheriff Chad Billeb said he had not seen this much devastation during his 34 years in law enforcement. “A lot of people are going to need a lot …

Dangerous tornadoes rip across Midwest 

Dangerous tornadoes rip across Midwest 

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Gateway Capital announces first close of M Fund II

Gateway Capital announces first close of $25M Fund II

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Gateway Capital Partners, the venture firm founded by Dana Guthrie, announced the first close for its $25 million target Fund II earlier this week, the Milwaukee-based firm told TechCrunch. Gateway Capital declined to share the exact amount of the first close. The first close means Fund II can begin its investment operations. Guthrie said the firm began raising its Fund II in the middle of last year. Fund II’s average check size will be between $500,000 and $600,000. It will be industry-agnostic, she said, though it will have “a bias toward Midwest industries that are ripe for disruption,” such as supply chain and logistics, and manufacturing AI. Guthrie said she hopes to back at least 20 companies from this fund. Gateway Capital, launched in 2020, last raised a $13 million Fund I in 2020. Source link

‘I didn’t think anyone would be into it’: Slayyyter turns midwest trash into pop gold | Pop and rock

‘I didn’t think anyone would be into it’: Slayyyter turns midwest trash into pop gold | Pop and rock

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For the past several months, nothing has gotten me through this brutal New York winter quite like Crank, a fiendishly chaotic concoction by the electropop artist Slayyyter. The track is deliriously overstimulating; the singer tweaks out over record-scratches and squelches and ferociously barrels through a chorus that sounds – and I mean this as a sincere compliment – like a plane crash. In these times of global catastrophe, I have found this soothing. Slayyyter’s new album Worst Girl in America scratches a similar anarchic itch. Immediate, vertiginous and diabolically cheeky, the after-hours record finds her channelling a ferality that feels rare in our slop-ified pop culture (cue the rock-tinged Cannibalism), and has garnered breathless hype among those in the know. All five singles released from the project to date have the jet propulsion of someone fueled on years of pop star study and frustrated by, as she bluntly puts it, “my ninth year on the up-and-coming list”. In that time, the 29-year old artist born Catherine Grace Garner has lingered on the clubby outskirts of …

How the Midwest Became the Place to Move

How the Midwest Became the Place to Move

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One of the first known uses of the term flyover country in print came from a midwesterner: In a 1980 issue of Esquire magazine, Thomas McGuane—a native of Michigan—quipped, “Because we live in flyover country, we try to figure out what is going on elsewhere by subscribing to magazines.” For years, much of the Midwest has been dismissed as boring, forgettable, nice but way too cold. Since practically the invention of air-conditioning, Americans have been leaving snowy northern states for warm places such as Florida, Texas, and Arizona—a trend that accelerated rapidly during the coronavirus pandemic. But these days, people are no longer flying over the Midwest. In growing numbers, they’re flying to the Midwest, to find a place to live. In the past couple of years, the region has become a popular place to relocate; three of the country’s five fastest-growing metro areas are there. Population growth in the Sun Belt, meanwhile, is slowing. The forces driving these changes go two ways: People are being drawn to more northerly cities for job opportunities and …

Midwest Hit With More Extreme Cold After Winter Storm

Midwest Hit With More Extreme Cold After Winter Storm

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Extreme cold with near-zero degree wind chills descended upon parts of Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin, forecasters said Tuesday, even as utilities worked to restore power to thousands of customers after heavy snow and strong winds pummeled parts of the Midwest, Great Lakes and the Northeast this week. The cold front follows a system that barreled across the Midwest and parts of the Great Lakes with strong winds and a mix of snow, ice and rain. Forecasters said it intensified quickly enough to meet the criteria of a bomb cyclone, a system that strengthens rapidly as pressure drops. Nick Korstad, who lives in the Big Bay Point Lighthouse on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Lake Superior, called the storm the strongest he has seen since he moved there in 2018, with gusts up to 75 mph (121 kph) rattling the house as waves pounded the cliffs below. The storm knocked out power for about 40 hours, darkening the lighthouse beacon and forcing him to rely on oil lamps and fireplaces. “When winds reach this magnitude, the …