8-10-2020 Central Iowa Historic Derecho- Full storm intercept and aftermath
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- Опубліковано 11 сер 2020
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Intercepting the most intense wind near the Newton, Iowa area during a historic derecho event. Featuring damaged trees and roofs immediately after the storm.
2nd half of the video shows damage from Huxley, Iowa where large trees were uprooted, structures damaged, power lines snapped, and corn flattened.
My wife and I were visiting Grinnell when this thing tore thru. We went out for a walk and it hit on our way back to the house. First the winds picked up, then the rain, then the vicious winds, flying debris down the road and very large trees snapping around us. A couple blocks back to the house felt like a couple miles. Never thought I'd have a taste of being out in a hurricane in IOWA! (PS: Thanks to the passerby in her SUV who picked us up & took us to the house)
marketweis We moved from Des Moines to a lake near grinnell and rode out the storm watching waves crashing ashore and huge willow trees toppling in the yard next door. Wild weather. I have lived up in Iowa since college and have never seen anything like it.
There are so many good people out there.. glad you got help.
I’m from Grinnell and currently live here! Chunks of our shingles were torn from our roof and trees were snapped. It was terrifying. It took a week and a half for power to be restored.
Longest time without power in Hurricans in florida were 3 weeks. HURRICANE's are very dangerous
There's power crews coming from all over the country to help restore power. My husband works for the power company in Nevada and he's on his way. Hang in there folks, help's on the way. There's a lot of good people coming to help.
@@JohnnyAngel8 petty much
Thank you so very much for helping them ❤️🤗🙏
@@connieelliott5359 so many on our crews volunteered right away to help. Many are coming from all over the country it warms my heart to see. There are still good people. 💗❤
We live here in Central Iowa...thank you so much to everyone who came to help!!!! We went with no power from Monday to Monday. Having rode out Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, MS. this was pretty close to a hurricane, minus the flooding. Again thank you to everyone for your help!!!
@@JohnnyAngel8 defund the grammar police
This is my home. I love Iowa. It was the worse storm I have ever seen. My heart hurts for the farmers. My mom in Cedar Rapids still doesn't have power. We lost 17 trees. My yard used to look like a park. My shade is gone. But the house is ok. We are ok! This storm went on and on
Gonna happen again too.
Cindy Robinson I’m from Iowa but live in nOrth west Arkansas for 2 years now. My grandson lives in CR now. He went through the tornado in muscatine Iowa a few years back. It blew out his BR windows and a garage roof from across the street fell on his very first car. ( was more upset over that then his house). I finLly got a text from him after the storm hit CR. He says he has PDST from the tornado and he was soooooo scared. He’s fine but that poor kid will never be the same. Lol
Rochester NY sending you healing wishes
As a native Iowan, I thank you for recording this. Blessings to those who endured it and the clean up after.
We had a Derecho in WV a few years back. There was no warning at all, one of the craziest experiences of my life. Went from blue sky’s to that in minutes. Big hardwood trees snapping like toothpicks all around. I was without power for 17 days. We were not prepared.
You’ll never be prepared for something like this!! Mother Nature sure likes to show us who the boss really is.
I used to live I this area and it’s just ripped my heart out that I can’t get back there right now to help!! I had a lot of help back in 98 when we got hit by a tornado and I want to return the favors but I can’t travel at all right now
@@1982MCI I have distant cousins out there. Hopefully all are okay. Prayers for all involved.
I swear, I'm glad I missed that. I was at the beach when that one hit and we came home the next day. The traffic getting back to WV was insane.
Only a 20% chance of rain predicted that day. When it hit I swore the roof was gonna blow off. Afterwards, no electricity, no gasoline, no ice to be found anywhere. Truly hell on earth.
Idiot
Yeah. Forget the genocide in Rwanda.
At least your safe.
This guy was a hell of a lot more relaxed than I was. My adrenaline and anxiety were so high for so long I almost got sick. I was in the car on a rural part of the highway when it hit and I thought I was actually going to die. Worst, most terrifying experience of my life by far.
Glad you're okay! That had to be terrifying for you. Thank goodness it didn't hit you.
Me and my stepdaughter were in the path of a tornado in Montana on the highline, that was the most afraid I've ever been. There was nowhere to go so I kept driving while she watched the funnel cloud. Thankfully we made it home and into the storm shelter.
Be gentle with yourself---that level of terror can seriously impact your health---both emotional and physical. PTSD, adrenal fatigue, etc. Do your best to eat healthy, get extra sleep, and use your God Given Right to PRAY and Ask for Healing.
@@nadinemickey3211 All my life living in Iowa and I've never seen a tornado but I was sure I must be stuck in one during this storm. I thought about trying to drive away from it but it was impossible to see the road. Glad you lived to tell your tale too!
@@stardust949 Thank you for the concern, I'm going to keep an eye on my health for sure. I am curious what sort of effects this will have on me when there's future storms. It stormed a little bit a few nights ago and it made me uneasy even though I was indoors and it was just a normal thunderstorm.
Emily B I live in Cedar Rapids. Am so sorry you were caught outside in the storm. Glad you made it through. We are definitely all in this together. I will pray for you. That your lingering trauma will go down.
Where we were, about 3 miles south of Cedar Rapids, this storm went on for roughly 40 minutes. The most unbelievable storm I've ever seen.
I just love that area. Delivered hogs up there for years. Hope things are working out.
I was right in the heart of that storm in Cedar Rapids. It went on for a long time and everything was destroyed after. We have gotten NO HELP for city, state or federal governments. Thank God for neighbors
Hope you guys finally have power on, heard you hadn't yesterday morning
@@josephsmith590 Still no power over here. But we have garages and trees still on the wires. We feel like they have forgotten about our neighborhood. My 97 year old neighbor finally had a family member take her away from her home. It's just completely overwhelming. We own a tree care company and we are just exhausted but still have so many to help.😣😪
@@lisastrawntattoohippy1111 wow, I hope they can get to you guys soon.
And you won't get help, either. Used to be "disaster" was declared, and money went to shore up gov facilities. Pretty sure nothing will be done
Vote out Kim Reynolds when the time comes. She’s done nothing in response to this. She doesn’t care about Iowans.
The agricultural devastation of fields is in the millions of acres, a third of Iowa’s harvest, I’ve read. This is a calamity.
Once in a lifetime event, for sure
@@SuV33358 2008.
But the 2008 flood happened early enough that most farmers were able to replant and get most of a crop in after the flood waters dropped.
That will NOT happen this year - but the Pandemic-caused demand drop will keep any shortages under control.
Lots of damage through out Iowa. Never seen a storm such as this here. One of a kind. Thanks for friendly and helpful people in this state cause won't get any help otherwise. Stay strong Iowans
I used to live in Iowa for several years and I never seen anything like it !!! God bless the farmers and their loss.
You know it's bad when high voltage wires on tall metal poles are blown over. Nice to see there were few injuries with the storm and hope those affected can recover relatively quickly.
I live in UK and we have "wind storms" but *nothing* on this scale. A "strong wind" here is 30mph constant tops, gusting to 70 (our "hurricane" in 1987 was the worst we'd had for nearly 300 years- 65mph, gusts to 110) but *THIS?* This is something else! Man, you have some *gnarly* weather out there.
I've not heard of a derecho before ( had to look it up). Hope everyone got through it safely and that the downed utilities, trees and silos are soon repaired. I feel very sorry for farmers who have lost crops and livestock.
We don't call off a golf tournament until it gets to 30mph constant. Our summers can be quite brutal. One year in Iowa we were under threat of tornado for over 70 days in a 90 day period. On the other end, I've seen -40° ~ +110°F.
@@ytubepuppy come to Texas these winds are common here
Stephen Phillip - Another Brit here. 🇬🇧 I had to look up a derecho too. Never heard of it before either. I actually slept through the 1987 storm. Slept like a log. Woke up to the whole roof of our house in the back yard. I still feel that God himself blessed me with sleeping all the way through it. I never knew a thing about it until it was all over. We get hurricanes in the U.K. but nothing like the Midwest gets. We are so lucky with our weather really. Prayers and much love to all of Iowa’s residents. XXX
30 mph is a common wind speed for Iowa.
UK doesn't know wind.
I'M SO GLAD SOMEONE DECIDED TO RECORD WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND!
*The ground is where all of it starts!* NOT THE AIR!
Heat Rising Off The Ground Starts The Rotations!
So concerned for all who experienced and are affected by this storm. I think “derecho” = straight line winds, so no rotation?
@@sandrashaw6298 correct....or I believe itd be called a hurricane
10 Million Acres of destroyed crops in Iowa alone! 10 million! God bless all the farmers who just lost their livelihood for the year.
And the corn market still barely rose in prices
That’s why they have insurance
@@joshr1801 it's less than 10% of 🇺🇸 market, but still a debilitating loss for those farmers.
Heartbreaking
Jeremy Carkhuff that won’t help you a bit tho when we can’t get the products later this fall that was manufactured from corn. We were already set to have bad food shortages this fall anyways because the entire Midwest had all of the devastating floods last spring that kept crops from being planted at all and drowned millions of hogs and cattle.
That insurance check doesn’t do a damn thing for you when your hungry and can’t get food!!!! It affects every one of us out here, not just the farmer, time to wake up Jeremy but it’s bout to late now!
In case you didn't know, the corn you see blowing over has stalks as thick as small trees. It is not like grass at all.
I didnt see any grass being uprooted tho...lol
I can 100% vouch this. My dad used to work on a corn field , and I used to walk through the "corn maze" as I called it. They get pretty thick around the base and stalk of the plant.
Oh how sad, truly devastating! My heart breaks for all who went through this.
This was the worst storm I have ever been in. I didn’t think it was ever going to end, the wind didn’t die down for over an hour and a half. At least my house had minimal damage, can’t say that about some of my neighbors. Very, very scary!!
Did you have any idea of what was coming? Crazy how powerful this was
Patrick's Music I thought it was just a regular bow echo storm coming, which aren’t good. I figured it would just blow over and be done in less in 15-20 minutes. That’s how storms normally are here. I also thought the county was wrong setting the sirens off when the storm was still about 50 miles away. They actually went off three times before it got here, which is extremely unusual. I was getting ready to run a couple errands when the sirens first went off. So I decided just to stay home and let it blow over and then go out. The only thing I went out for after the storm was a new chainsaw blade. I think I would rather go through a tornado, (I was extremely close to one once) than go through something like that again. After it was over, people started emerging from their houses and everyone was completely shocked. We have had straight line winds except they only affect a few blocks, this thing is massive and affected hundreds of thousands of people. I have never been in a hurricane, but I think this is exactly how they are. The winds didn’t go under 50 mph for over an hour. Here locally we had wind gusts between 95 and 100 mph.
I have been through tornadoes, this felt like you are not quite in the eye of the tornado but pretty damn close.
Hows the situation in adair Iowa? My ex husband (rapist and meth addict) and his whore lives there. I cant say u feel sorry if they're found dead. For the rest of u. .... hope u get thru the aftermath.
@@sari7829 LMAO!! You go girl!
This was brilliant, one of the best Derecho videos I have ever seen done. Your videography and the way you set up the shots were absolutely excellent. I feel so sorry for the farmers. I am a farmer and I have had several crops destroyed right before harvest due to hail and high winds. It is so demoralizing when it happens.
Goodness Gracious sakes alive!! The shot where the storm literally came down the road and he said Here it comes..was brilliant. I am very impressed at the after-storm picture of that little white Church with the perfect steeple, standing intact, along with.the huge tree next to it.There is a story here, I wonder if anyone had taken shelter inside and certainly many folks were praying everywhere during the storm. My kin are in North Dakota, they homesteaded the prarire around Maddock. I had a chance to visit the old home place a few years back, and visited the little white church with a tall steeple that the family attended. You can see several churches like that in the distance, dotting the farmlands. My Grandma and her sisters used to tell me about the violent lightning and thunderstorms with hail that ruined crops and farm buildings. She said that somehow, these storms would come up suddenly on Sundays when they were all inside the church.and sometimes lighting would strike the church and someone would be killed. while the rest were unharmed.. Life was very hard back in those days. I have been watching the videos of these Derechos, and i am thankful , at least, for modern weather forecasting and and warnings out there, People have a chance to take shelter.. God Bless and protect all you wonderful people who live in the Heartland. 🙏🙏🙏🙏💕🇺🇸
Thank you for showing this since MSM won't show the devastating effects to iowa from this storm
Why? 🙃😔
The Weather Channel interviewed farmers, showed flattened fields, and showed destroyed silos this morning.
Quit trying to politicize everything
0omg
More worried bout bashing trump
Here in Southern Alabama we had the same type of weather come through in March and April. God bless y'all.
Definitely! Here in Central Alabama, we can't see the storms coming, due to the hills around us. Take care all!
Back in 1999 i think, we had a similar event up on the Canadian border up here in Minnesota that blew down huge swaths of forest like tooth picks. Yeah them Derechos are a lesser known piece of right nasty business.
I’m in foley.
There is something to be said for having your own generator ....... providing it doesn't get blown away.
Floridian here, This damage is worse than some of the hurricanes we've had here. It reminds me of when Charlie hit central FL directly, which was one of the more severe ones. Crazy
I mean it did have wind gusts up to 112mph. Which is the equivalent to a CAT 2 hurricane
@@leaf2180 Yes it is. This storm had weakened to Cat-1 status when it hit Michigan. 80 mph gusts hit my area in Benton Harbor, and power was out for me for 2 days, and longer in many areas in SW MI. Crews from OH, OK, and LA were seen around my area helping with the power restoration.
I couldn't imagine living through a hurricane. The storm lasted for about 10 minutes in Southwest Michigan, winds were 80 mph (category 1 hurricane.) I couldn't imagine enduring hour after hour of a storm like that.
@Nagga Lotus I live in Cedar Rapids. Your perspective from Florida is interesting. My neighborhood looked like a war zone...no exaggeration.
@@margerose8975 I was in Orange county about 10 minutes from Orlando
Poor farmer just got his corn crop destroyed
@Digby Dooright nobody will talk about how this decimated corn in our state wait and see how much corn goes up
When the derecho went through Chicago was any damage done to the Chicago Cubs Wrigley Field and the Chicago White Sox guaranteed rate field by this
I have seen corn like that, and, it recovered fairly well. Just a wild guess, but, I would estimate that, with luck, he will get about 3/4ths of what he could have got. It's a safe bet that he has crop insurance...I hope so.
It was crazyyy dude. I got some great footage also here in Illinois. I might upload tomorrow
1000s of farmers. like a big wave. that was 500 to 700 miles wide just rolling over the crops.
I grew up in Iowa and this saddens me. Fortunately the people of this great state are extremely resourceful
Those clouds at the beginning are the darkest I've ever seen. Reminds me of that quip: "New Yorkers wear black until something darker comes along."
Earsflappin? I never heard that saying. Good 1 👂 NYorks liking that one 😅
If I had to take a guess without knowing what this is, I would have thought this was a cat 3 hurricane making landfall somewhere.
It approached and possibly exceeded category 2 hurricane wind speeds at times.
It was cat 3 and it went on for 15-20 minutes nonstop! I stood outside recording the beginning until hit by small tree branch. Recorded from inside as my windows sucked in and out. Watched all the trees going down. I didn’t think it was going to stop! I was on a second floor. Some places lost roofs and entire top floors. Tree damage to everything and cell towers down. No communication, no power, and ongoing disaster clean up. I love weather but no thanks to ever experiencing that again! Our city has lost so much and the farmers crops.
@@DMBabyGurlAdventures
I Live In Waterloo.
We Didn't Get It As Bad As Cedar Rapids And Iowa City.
It is called a derecho,it went thru Iowa, looks like it followed what they consider I 80 corridor.
@@stuffjunk5019 sure beat the hell out of Isias!
Wonder how many insurance companies are actually going to help instead of flaking out?
When the corn lays down like that, you know the damage is going to be bad.
@Jeremy Mejia
Yep, Everything Laid Waste!!!
☹☹☹☹☹☹
it's not down flat, they may still be able to salvage the crop. the field of corn at the end is definitely not going to survive
@@toscatattertail9813 The Weather Channel interviewed a farmer this morning that lost about $2 million worth of corn. His fields were just flattened. It was so sad.
Reminds me of that old joke about why the corn in Iowa leans to the east. Illinois sucks and Nebraska blows.
WOW, that's some crazy weather right there. If not for the corn fields I'd of thought I was watching a Hurricane hit the coast!!!
I live in Ames and got a direct hit. Havent had power since Monday, I was also on the front porch watching the action when it hit.
Dorothy: I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore....No, you silly girl. You’re in Iowa, soon to be in Illinois with Toto landing somewhere in Tennessee..🙋🏻♂️
Lol!
We got a small taste of the remnants in KY. The rain and wind was coming from every direction. I can't imagine being in that like in Iowa. Just wow!
I’ve never heard of a derecho before today. Wow it’s almost like being in a hurricane. Hopefully no one was hurt
That's what it felt like. A hurricane. Some of the winds reached hurricane force. I live in the QCA area of iowa
It reached up to a cat 3 hurricane in terms of speed and wind gusts
I live in Davenport. There are sections of our city that look like they were bombed! scary stuff!
Same in Clinton
Prayers for ya from earthquake country. We all got somethin'😞
Sending prayers for all of you. 🙏❤
Same in Newton.
I live in cedar rapids there's not an inch of our city that didn't get touched
I live on a farm in the midwest, and I dont remember ever seeing corn stalks dance like that!!
"Move to Iowa so you're not bothered by hurricanes..."
I don't think anyone on the face of the Earth has ever said that lmao. Iowa gets some of the worst storms in the second half of summer.
@@leaf2180 Aye. There seems to be a misconception by the general public that if you move further inland away from the coast, you'll avoid severe wind storms. People know about tornadoes, but figure those are far more localized than the swaths of destruction a hurricane can cause. They tend to forget or not know at all about the derechos that the inner United States tends to get: the storms usually starting somewhere in the great plains and moving east, sometimes over the Great Lakes, sometimes over the Deep South. So indeed, moving further inland in the United States may save you from tropical winds. But not, wind. Lol.
Lol. I just spent 5 years in Florida. Trust me, Iowa doesn’t get hurricanes.
You haven’t lived until you endure three hours on a 36 foot sailboat in Tampa bay when a 70 MPH storm pops up out of nowhere. Luckily I was well-anchored as I routinely put out a heavy duty storm anchor when I was going to be in an anchorage for more than a day or two.
And it lasted WAYYY longer than this derecho.
@@alexblaze8878 That was satire. I lived 14 years in FL and through several hurricanes.
lightcaesar ah okay!
The sound of the wind alone would scare me!!!!
I got caught in it around Marshalltown IA and it almost flipped my company vehicle. I thought it was a tornado. I had to angle my vehicle so it wouldn’t broadside me and flip me over down the ditch. It started hailing so bad I thought the windows were going to bust out.
Amazing vid! Good job. TY for posting this for us
Oh man the Midwest been having a great severe weather year sheesh
khalil Heat and air conditioner repair yeah I know it😓
It honestly hasn’t been terrible here in Iowa where this video was taken. We’ve gotten very lucky up until now. I think we’ve only had one tornado warning all summer which is so unusual. Unfortunately this storm makes up for everything that hasn’t happened though.
Makenzie Homan Well Michigan already had 2 moderate risks which is very rare they had about 18 enhanced risks of severe weather and a whole lot of other crap that same thing with Ohio Wisconsin and Minnesota
yes im in minnesota flooding rain hail tornadoes weve had it all 102 temperature 94 today severe weather scince april moore stuff comeing soon this guy has brass balls an object could smash through his window at 100 mph sorry for the loss of crops homes barns trees down loss of power im 54 seen enough for tears in my eyes
They always do.
Many years ago they had windbreaks all through farm country. Perhaps now we know why.
Yep but we got to cut them down to get an extra couple rows in !
@@pauliewalnuts7088 I come from Minnesota farm people. My uncle had the family farm in the 50's and 60's and he talked about planting as much as possible. Not only the windbreaks went but also the fences.
My parents had windbreaks around their field, but the windbreaks blew down too.
To keep snow from drifting in the winter?
@@jakeheller0608 I think to protect smaller plants- corn and soy, peas, grains.
Being from Iowa we thank all the power people
After watching this it's even more amazing that our power was only off for 95.5 hours. Many heartfelt thanks to the crews who went out into the pandemic and heat to get power back on.
Devastating, but an absolutely amazing storm! Great coverage as always.
One of the scariest storms I have ever witnessed! the amount of widespread damage it left behind is incredible.
The beginning of sorrows..
Seeing this brings back so many memories of the wind storm that hit ohio on September 14,2008 😲😮😯😱😫😬😨 the winds were so strong that i thought it was going to snap the 🌪️ siren right in half!🥺😟😭 that was the worst storm of my life that I've ever been in 💔 i had gotten caught in it bc i was walking back to my house and had to literally hold on to a very strong street sign to keep from being blown away my prayers and thoughts are with everyone 🙏💔😢 may God bless you and keep you safe in his arms and put protection around u all 🙏🏻💖
Wasn’t that from hurricane Ike?
@@jessieely5363 yes---that massive wind storm was the "remnant" of Hurricane Ike. I was in SW Ohio for that one----and it kicked our collective butts. Tons of people with damaged homes, trees down everywhere, and power out for a couple of weeks in some areas.
Star Dust my parents were in the Columbus area
Wow.. thx for sharing the amazing film of windshield wipers going on high... very relaxing!
I have never even heard of this before these videos... I am just in awe of the power and severity of it... Blessings to all who endured it and are still recovering from it.
Cedar Rapids got hit bad. What's weird is that the trees are snapped in two. But not much damage to the houses. Thank God! And we still have running water.
Yes
I love videos like this. Thanks for sharing.
I would say “could 2020 get any worse” but we still have December
An asteroid in September, a tsunami in October, Presidential assassination in November, and Space Aliens invade in December
So buckle up
Tommy Petraglia 👍🏼😜
@@tommypetraglia4688 the asteroid is 6½ feet long. It'll burn up in .1 seconds
Tommy Petraglia Beginning of End Times? If so, will only get worse!
DrMemes That is what the trustworthy Government says until it hits!!
WOW never seen that before. Worse than a tornado
Thanks for the pro video. Nicely done.
Crop damage so sad I grew up in this area I've never seen this either! Stay safe thanks for sharing
Janet Doten where exactly is this do you know? I live north of Marshalltown. Got it didn’t see the sign the first time.
2020 ain`t over yet ...
Congratulations, you know how to read a calendar.
That’s exactly how Hurricane María felt in PR in 2017.
I live in Central Illinois and a couple weeks ago we had a freaky weather pattern. It was s severe downdraft...not straight line winds or a tornado. Itwas a huge downdraft knocking over trees and limbs some landing on houses. I had just a few limbs on a evergreen torn off but I was at the edge of the storm if that's what you can call it.
My mom and I had to drive through some of the worst parts of that storm that hit Illinois trying to get home. We couldn't see anything 4 feet in front of the car, so we hid in a Dunkin' Donuts until the storm got a bit better. After around 5 minutes, the storm seemed to die down, and mom wanted to leave and go home. I argued with her about going home for about a minute, and then finally accepted.
Turns out, an F1 died near the Dunkin as we finished the argument. We didn't find out until a few days later.
This storm hit Missouri too. It blew everything out from under the porch. I thought my car was going to flip. INSANE ! Never seen anything like this & that was no microburst. Ive been though a few of those. 🌈
Power out for three days, while everyone around me was back on the grid, lost all da food, no but seriously I saw fields laid down barns blown over and small towns devastated, towns like Slater, Huxley, Ames and even Ankeny and Des Moines
Freaking Iowa hurricane. Where I live in Lake County Illinois they treated this storm like it was a 20 min long tornado. The winds and sirens stayed on almost a full half hour. Crazy
I've been thru storms before...but this one scared the hell out of me..never heard of Derecho before and had to look up it's meaning..Land Hurricane.. been thru this once...that was enough for me !!!
Had one of these storms tear through WV back in 2012. Trees down everywhere, power was out all over. Some people didn't get power back for upwards of 2 weeks, and in some cases even longer. We had power crews here from all over the country even as far as California. I feel your pain Iowa. Best of luck in dealing with the aftermath. God bless.
This seemed like hours. 40 minutes timed. We are used to things being pretty much over in 10 minutes. We really didn't know what hit us. The neighborhood responded so well. Teens hit the street going door to door as soon as things cleared and then set to clearing the street. It's like a hurricane over the entire city. Power lines are still tangled up in the hundreds of shredded trees 5 days later.
I'm from Texas, and I've been in hurricanes. Now you've got a good idea what the eyewall of a hurricane is like.
@@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net you are right. And I hope I never experience it again.
Here in Virginia, back in 2012 had one come through. We had gone out to supper and were debating whether to go to a movie or something afterwards. Decided to just go home and relax instead. Saw what appeared to be a thunderstorm to the west. Had just got home, sky went dark and then all hell broke loose! Had just got the dogs inside too. Power instantly went out! Lots of felled trees and branches all around. Thank the Lord for his guidance and protection!
Man, the guy in the car must have freaked right out !!!! Iknow I would have.... You have steel balls dude to be so calm
great vid. thank you for sharing
I rode one out inside a Ford Ranger pick-up truck in May of '09. Truck was jumpin' all over the place. It went across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. No power for 13 days. First day is a big ice cream party, and then different kinds of BBQ as bigger and bigger things in your freezer thaw out. Our derecho came 2 days after a BIG monthly meat purchase from the butcher shop.
That's like our typical hurricanes here in Eastern NC....that goes on for hours!! Scary!!
Agreed. In Florida we call these regular (and routine) tropical storms.
This is our heartland where our food comes from a little different than living on the coast where you sign up for the storms. This will have a huge impact on these families their farmers and effect us all at the grocery store.... prayers for you all. Hate your not getting tge news coverage you deserve...
@@meganspindle7771 totally wasn't meaning anything bias by my reply. Just stating a fact. We grow acres and acres of corn, potatoes, wheat, soybeans here. Farming/agriculture is one of our main means of jobs here in my part of NC . I can't tell you the amount of times the farmers crops here have been wiped out due to hurricanes and tropical storms. The farmers and majority of people who live here were born and raised here. We didn't sign up for anything. The ones who buy the fancy vacation homes on the beach may fit a little more in that category.
Megan Spindle “this is the heartland where a lot of our food production comes from”. Well, indirectly maybe but probably not in the way ur thinking.
99% of Iowa corn crops are “field corn” which is used for livestock feed and ethanol production. Only 1% is sweet corn-“sweet corn” being any corn (whether frozen, canned, or on the cob) sold for human consumption.
Minnesota, on the other hand, produces a full 33% of all corn grown for human consumption in the U.S. Followed closely by Washington state and Florida. Iowa isn’t even in the top 5.
1) Florida grows more sweet corn than Iowa. Iowa DOES grow a lot of field corn so this storm wiping out 43% of their crops IS bad.
2) Florida has a large share of the nation’s citrus crops so yes bad storms in Florida can be devastating also. Florida also relies heavily on tourism so destruction of coastal areas is very hurtful to their economy as well.
Also, Florida gets slammed several times a year, Iowa usually only once (maybe) per year. If I was governor of Iowa I’d encourage the conversion of a lot of that farmland to hog farms as hog production is not devastated by storms like corn crops are.
Iowa’s biggest weakness is that it relies too much on a single industry for its revenue.
@@alexblaze8878 u need to do a little more research cause its not just the sweet corn that ends up in the food chain...there are over 4000 products made with corn...the corn that is used for feed is what keeps meat in the stores...u may not feel the impact now but I guarantee we all will be impacted weather its at the store or at the gas pump
My Gosh!!!, never even heard anything on TV about this!! ,,why not??
Because we're Iowa, nobody cares about the midwest it seems
8 days after the event I just got power back, there are MANY more who haven't... I live in one of the hardest hit areas and the damage is extensive. The turnout of support has been INCREDIBLE to see though. Absolutely wonderful to see the amount of people coming from so far away to help almost completely rebuild our power grid. It's gonna take a while but we're working on it.
Glad you got your power back. I'm still waiting. And I agree with what you said about the wonderful people who helped! My neighborhood was helped by a utility truck brigade from New York.
I was in the worst damage path. Watched most of my trees go. It went on forever, it seems. Looks like a 30 miles wide tornado.
Iowa had a bad one back in the 90s that blew a train off the tracks into the Iowa river in Iowa city. Very strong straight line winds.
The winds were reported at 100+mph 5 miles away as the storm approached. So I prepared for the worst and got the kids in the basement and waited. It hit and all it did was knock over my trash can. Apparently the storm split right before it go there.
So ends the era of being immune from catastrophic hurricane level damage inland. This is absolutely terrifying. In Connecticut we just had a tropical storm that caused more damage than our previous three hurricanes, and yet it wasn't even a fraction of what just happened out there. My prayers go out to the people of Iowa!
Great video , man what a storm or line of storms , never seen anything like that here in N.C. unless it was a Hurricane or tornado
Yeah that's crazy stuff. I been thru straight line winds when I lived in Nebraska, but nothing like this. Wow
Intense. Awesome in the most literal sense of the word.
A lot of corn and soybeans destroyed 😢
I have seen very few storms outside of hurricanes with that type of intensity. One of the reasons why the visibility was so bad is actually a combination of rain and clouds blowing along the ground. It’s very similar in principle to how a funnel cloud condenses and forms in a tornado. The high wind compresses warm and humid air causing clouds to form at ground level. So what you’re seeing here is not just sheets of rain, but also clouds swirling by at ground level. It normally takes wind of about 100mph or greater to see that type of high wind cloud phenomenon.This is probably the most dangerous thunderstorm I’ve ever seen in terms of the straight line winds.
God bless you in your car. What a strong wind and heavy rain. I hope no one is hurt.
I’ve only ever been through one of these in my life but nothing like this! These poor farmers just lost god only knows how much money.....all that corn that goes to feed America just gone......
We dont eat that. It goes to feed cattle or China.
@@bikeluversusie2522 A lot of it WAS being used to make ethanol - but demand for Ethanol is down so much that ADM closed their Cedar Rapids facility to make it earlier this year.
It’s never been like this before!
The Deracho has always fascinated me. We live in Alabama. We had one that came through many years ago. It left many like “what the heck was that? “
Where did this storm originate? And were there other states with storm damage? Heard many Iowans are without power. Your southern neighbors in Alabama are praying and thinking of you. We hope those power crews are working hard to get your lights back on quickly ! God bless y’all!
There was one that blew from north to south over Mobile Bay and out into the gulf around 94 or 95 I think, it was wicked strong. Friends of mine were caught in the bay trying to make the dock, barely escaped with their lives
You seem very calm through this young man!!
I appreciate seeing damage that I hadn't already seen but this was only a baby of a storm that packed one heck of a punch!
My county was one of the areas declared a disaster zone. We had lots of tree and power lines down for damage. Turn nearly a week to get power back on and fully restored. Still removing trees. No injuries. Family members had roof, porch, and window damage.
I survived it. I was at home when it hit. I had no indication it was going to be as bad as it was. We got 109mph winds sustained for 40 minutes. It was terrifying. I just got my electricity on yesterday after a week of nothing. It was so eerie at night with a whole town that was dark. It was a bit unnerving. I can't thank the crews enough for busting their asses for 17 hours a day trying to get us all back on the grid.
We had one here in PA earlier in the summer. 70 to 90 mph winds. I suffered no damage but so many others weren't so lucky. Pretty powerful stuff.
What kind of car you sitting on during this storm?
I’m still without power and the destruction is unbelievable! We had 116 mph winds in Cedar Rapids! Sitting here in the dark now. This sucks. Never seen anything like it
I'm in the dark too
Me 3....4 candles and 3 solar lights. All refrigerated and frozen food had to be tossed
Do u have any footage of des moines or wdm???
I do. I may upload tomorrow
So this is a Derecho, not a hurricane. Looking at the weather map it got close to looking like one though.
@@darrinrasberryph.d.1458 Yeah, Derechos do that. But instead of spinning like a tornado or a Hurricane its a straight line.
That storm didn't last long, compared to a hurricane. The 80 mph winds lasted for about 10 minutes in SW Michigan. It seemed to last forever....I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be in a hurricane with strong winds like that for hours instead of minutes.
@@ochsj1971 I've been in every Florida hurricane since '04. I don't wanna take anything away from these peoples experience, it's terrifying. But hurricanes do last longer, sometimes a whole day of intense wind and rain. I remember seeing roofs being blown off 3 hours into Charlie.
Did anyone else jump out of their skin after the first 18 seconds of silent, rolling , black storm clouds, then the video snaps to audio & heavy winds. I'll bravely admit it scared the piss outta me
Extremely brutal storms, just missed our cities barely
Thank you for the videos i was working in grimes and it just hit
Thanks for sharing
The fire department here in Nevada, Iowa said it considered an inland hurricane