A book, Night of the Twisters, by Ivy Ruckman, and movie were based on this event.
She retired from a career as a Registered Nurse and counselor and currently lives in Grand Island, Nebraska.
This harbor is a natural bay (thus providing protection from easterly or westerly storms) and sheltered on the north by Grand Island.
With the exception of their stations in Omaha, Grand Island/Kearney, and Lincoln, Nebraska and Wausau-Stevens Point, Wisconsin, NRG owns properties in small or medium, unrated markets.
Thomas Carl "Tom" Kropp (born February 12, 1953) is an American former professional basketball player born in Grand Island, Nebraska.
The Tri-Cities in Nebraska is an informal grouping consisting of the cities of Grand Island, Hastings, and Kearney.
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Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Bruce entered the Navy as a Boatswain 6 February 1898 and was commissioned a Lieutenant (temporary) 1 July 1918.
NY 324 officially begins at NY 384 in Niagara Falls and overlaps I-190 southward across the North Grand Island Bridge to Grand Island, Erie County.
Air Midwest (U.S. Airways Express) began service on October 29, 2006, with two daily flights to Grand Island and on to Omaha Eppley Airfield and Kansas City International Airport.
On December 12, federal agents raided Swift plants in Hyrum, Utah; Greeley, Colorado; Marshalltown, Iowa; Grand Island, Nebraska; Cactus, Texas; and Worthington, Minnesota.
In 1825 the playwright, diplomat and journalist, Mordecai Manuel Noah - the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence - tried to found a Jewish "refuge" at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called "Ararat," after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark.
His first official tornado damage survey was in Grand Island, Nebraska, in 1980 and his first hurricane damage survey was Hurricane Allen in south Texas later that year.
On December 17, 1976 at 1:00PM, WTCG Channel 17's signal was beamed via satellite to its four cable systems in Grand Island, Nebraska; Newport News, Virginia; Troy, Alabama; and Newton, Kansas.
Between Hastings and Grand Island, U.S. 281 overlaps U.S. 34 and is designated as the Tom Osborne Expressway after the former Nebraska Cornhuskers football coach and U.S. Representative, who is a native of Hastings.
Between 1929 and 1931, Sioux Falls College acquired four Baptist schools that had ceased to operate: Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa; Grand Island College, Grand Island, Nebraska; Cedar Valley Seminary, Osage, Iowa; and Parker College, Winnebago, Minnesota.
James Albert Duffy (died 1968), first bishop for the Diocese of Grand Island
KGIA-LP, a low-power radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
KRGI-FM, a radio station (96.5 FM) licensed to Grand Island, Nebraska, United States