A week has passed since a deadly derecho tore across Iowa.
The storm left behind severe damage through most of central Iowa, including Marshalltown, a city that now faces a similar scenario like that of the 2018 EF-3 tornado.
On the north side of the city, Riverside Cemetery barely missed the tornado two years ago, but was regrettably not as lucky this time.
"All I could think back then was how horrible it would have been if it had come through here ... and well, it basically did," said Dorie Tammen, the general manager at Riverside.
The historic cemetery first opened in 1863 and is now home to over 23,000 burials.
From veterans to magicians, almost everyone in Marshall County has some sort of connection to this iconic place.
Debris now covers nearly every inch of the cemetery grounds, as trees were snapped, monuments and markers were displaced and in some cases, vaults were even left exposed.
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