A storm that tore through southern Iowa’s Union County Wednesday afternoon left damage in the town of Kent that looked like the work of a twister. Kent mayor Mary Brown says it was about four that the storm went through.She says it turned trees around and it was so loud her neighbor across the street couldn’t hear when she told her to take shelter.Mayor Brown says there’s a lot of damage in Kent.The front of the old store building went down, there are telephone poles broken off and lines down. Brown says they’re lucky noone got hurt. They haven’t yet compiled a dollar estimate of the damage.
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