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Jordan Sellergren/Little VillageIt’s probably best not to dwell on what it says about life in Iowa that the names of two fearsome types of weather originated here. But in 1870, a northwest Iowa newspaper attached an already violence-laced word to the most violent sort of snowstorm, and 18 years later, a former UI professor borrowed the Spanish word for “straight,” to describe a devastating storm that ripped through Iowa in 1877.O.C. Bates, edito…