(CNN) Every Wednesday night, Danielle Hecker is part of a bike club that rides the streets of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On Thursday, the governor's office reported that additional funding had been approved for the Cedar Rapids area under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Individual Assistance Program. Storm 'just hammered and hammered'Nikki Wims works at a Cedar Rapids bar and says she's never seen any storm like this before. Wims says even though the emergency sirens went off about 20 minutes before the storm hit, she believes there wasn't enough preparation for a storm this size. But as Hecker recounts the day the storm hit, rebuilding efforts and the memories of the so-called land hurricane hitting Cedar Rapids are sure to last much longer.

Source: CNN August 22, 2020 00:45 UTC