At the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house, 828 E. Washington St., 29 women were in the house when the storm hit. The east wall of the house was completely destroyed and its roof torn off, said house mother Claudia Streeter. Cars littered the ravine to the west of the house, and the numerous decks, which residents reported had been the site of a nonalcoholic social only hours earlier, were destroyed.
Shortly after the winds came through, Streeter reported a firefighter told the women to remain in the basement unless they smelled gas. After 20 minutes passed, they did began to smell gas and decided to evacuate - some number of them without shoes.
Firefighters with oxygen tanks searched the Alpha Chi house for injured, but most of the sorority sisters were taken to the Iowa City police station, said UI senior and Alpha Chi member Erika Fabisch.
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