'Lucky again': Tornado kills one in rural southwest Iowa; neighbors describe near-misses

CORNING — A stylist was coloring Betsy Akin's hair Tuesday afternoon when she received an alert. A tornado had touched down at the Corning Airport, and the dangerous cyclone was whipping through rural Adams County. Akin and the rest of the beauty shop took cover. She called her husband, Scott, a county supervisor and retired lumberman. Pausing his "county work" on the basement computer, Scott Akin walked outside to watch. "Get the dogs," Betsy, 62, texted him at 3:08 p.m. Scott grabbed their pets, Rem and Chase, and carried them...