The community surrounding Bennington Lake is now picking up what’s left of their neighborhood after a tornado ripped through the metro and surrounding areas on Friday.
Omahans are still working to wrap their heads around all the damage caused by Friday’s tornadoes that ripped homes apart in mere seconds that took months to build, and destroyed trees that took decades to grow.
A “reveal” of what a Nebraska poet hid inside a lonely monument a century ago revealed more of what Mother Nature could wreck over the span of 100 years.
Many families rode out the tornadoes huddled together. But one couple in western Douglas County spent frightful moments seperated by a few hundred yards not knowing whether either of them would survive.
As cleanup from Friday’s tornadoes continues across the Omaha metro, the American Red Cross says the two shelters it opened for tornado victims in Elkhorn and Blair will close Sunday.
During an extensive update Saturday afternoon, officials applauded the efforts of the public to help but also underscored the need for people to largely avoid heavily damaged areas.
Communities in West Omaha and west Iowa worked to push through the damage and heartache after severe weather raced through the area Friday, bringing heavy rain, large hail, strong winds, and several confirmed tornadoes.
The annual Nebraska Bigfoot Conference returned to Grand Island on Friday with plenty of people from all over the country there to see the newest developments on the cryptid.