Ashton Kutcher warned the federal government of the lack of relief after a derecho ripped through this home state of Iowa and other Midwestern states this week.
The actor, 42, used his Twitter account to sound, claiming that not much has been done to get Iowa back on its feet after a swath of destruction and power outages were a result of his 800-mile trek.
The storm system swept from eastern Nebraska across Iowa. One woman in Indiana was found dead while her granddaughter was clambering into her wrecked mobile home while another person in Iowa was killed.
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“Where’s the federal relief for Iowa? 10m acres of crops have been destroyed. Houses. Communities. Awaken federal government! What if it’s not called a tornado or hurricane that you do not have to act hard on? Come on !!” tweeted the landowner of Cedar Rapids.
Kutcher then specifically called for Vice President Pence and President Trump for their alleged lack of response.
“You were campaigning there. You saw with your own eyes. Do something,” Kutcher tweeted to Pence.
Kutcher then tagged Trump in a few tweets with photos of the damage, one of which showed a damaged house covered with fallen trees.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday early estimates indicate that 10 million acres were damaged in the nation’s worst corn-producing state and many grain beans were destroyed. That’s nearly a third of the roughly 31 million acres of land being cultivated in the state, which suffered damage from the windstorm.
“Impressive satellite image of the crop damage from yesterday’s storms showing 2 significant damage swaths,” the National Water Service tweeted.
Corn plants lie on the ground following a derecho storm that swept across the Midwest with wind gusts near 100 mph in Iowa and Illinois.
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When the system reached Des Moines, forecasters said wind speeds were clocked at more than 100 mph. This caused destruction in farming communities.
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Mike Naig, Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture, said tens of millions of bushels of commercial none storage and millions of bushels of grain storage on farms have been damaged or destroyed.
“It’s incredibly devastating to see what happens to crops, and to structures across the storm path,” he told reporters.
Fox News’ Travis Fedschun contributed to this report.
