CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — In the five days since a massive storm system laid waste to this city, Ethel Fontenette, 65, has been trying to make sure neighbors in her retirement community stay well fed. 

With many older people who use wheelchairs trapped in their apartments and food rotting in their fridges, she set up a grill in the parking lot as some residents work as runners, carrying food down to cook and then up again to feed people. 

Even though the power is back, they still need help. 

"No one starved," Fontenette said. But "we have a long way to go." 

Iowans have "endured the unimaginable," Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said Friday, as the state tries to recover from Monday‘s derecho. The violent thunderstorm — which struck with the force of a Category 2 hurricane with little warning — lasted 14 hours with wind speeds that reached 140 miles an hour. It devastated scores of communities in the Hawkeye State, and Cedar Rapids, a city of more than 125,000 people, was among the hardest hit. Most homes and businesses sustained damage, trees and wires are down everywhere, roads are blocked, and hospitals are overrun. 

The National Guard brought some relief to the stricken area as the week ended, and Reynolds announced at a news conference Friday that the state will apply Monday for a federal disaster declaration that would provide financial assistance to affected homeowners and cover repairs for critical infrastructure.

Affected Iowans say they feel as if they are living on an island or as if the derecho hurled them back into a previous century, with no electricity, spotty cellphone coverage and a lack of clarity about what the future holds. 

"People didn‘t know. We couldn‘t communicate to the outside world," said Zack Kucharski, executive editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, who described not being able to reach his parents, either physically or by phone, even as he tried to keep the newsroom running. 

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