After the Parkersburg, Iowa tornado
Check out this amazing multimedia presentation by the Des Moines Register.
Two weeks ago an EF-5 tornado, the biggest possible on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, ripped through the southern half of Parkersburg, Iowa. Like most communities after tragedy, the town pulled together. Neighbors searched for each other among the wreckage. People pitched in together and cleaned up the roads. So far, eight people have died from their injuries.
The Register’s multimedia presentation merges an attractive flash interface with user-submitted stories, photographer-shot video and it combines before images from the county assessor database with images photographers took after the storm.
The interface is very easy to use. There’s also video of a high school football team digging a double grave at the cemetery because the public works team is too busy repairing gas lines and other essential services.
If you scroll down you can also click on archived stories of the tornado, including footage from a bank ATM camera of a house being destroyed.