August 10, 2020 Strongest Derecho in recent Iowa history. 100 mile an hour wind speeds!
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- Strongest Derecho in recent history. 100 mile an hour wind speeds in Iowa August 10, 2020. This was like an inland hurricane. the destruction was extremely widespread and bad! This video doesn't really show how bad it actually was. we were so scared. my dad wasn't thinking about showing the trees on the left or the crops in the field on the right but rain was coming in a little from the doors, the van was in the air a few times, even!!! We were driving home feom my grandma's funeral in Wisconsin. My 6 year old niece was with my dad, mom and me, and my pregnant sister, her husband and their other 2 kids were about a mile ahead of us on the side of the road in their car. We were unable to get to them because of a semi that was overturned and taking up the entire road. we had to turn
around afterwards and were stuck in (i bothink it was Marion, IA) that town for almost 3 hours trying to get out. The power was out EVERYWHERE and we were running low on gas. (2 nights prior to this, me and my bf dog passed away and i wasn't there; then we had to go through this?! This was a bad week, just like its been a really bad 2020!) I'm so thankful that we are all safe! xo
2:04 LOL. Gotta love that little kid. " I wanna see the tornado." Parents doing an outstanding job keeping the kid calm.
Thank you... yea we couldn't really talk about how scared we really were because of her.
I think she was doing a great job of keeping everyone else calm. Like comparing the shaking nerves with getting out of a bath, using the bathroom and eating donuts. For an excrutiatingly long storm she was like an angel.
You people in the Midwest are so calm when crazy storms hit. That guy says ‘That’s one hell of a storm, huh? and everyone else in the car’s like ‘Yup.’
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
don't understand why people give these videos thumbs down. Someone's account of a storm, don't like it then don't watch. I am always impressed watching historical storms like this. Only reason I would give it a thumbs down was if she had filmed half the storm with the camera pointed at the floor
Thanks so much... I know it's not the best footage and doesn't even depict it properly, but we were so scared because we weren't from around there and we were just driving through. We also had to think about what to do if we flipped. We had a 6 year old with us and the rest of my family was about a mile ahead. We were preparing and praying more than we were filming.
Living in the Midwest is not for the weak. 80 mph winds with blue sky days. Glad you made it out.
You and your family were calm in the heart of the storm. You didn't panic. I liked you, brother.
I remember being at home in my closet and this felt like forever. I cannot imagine being in a vehicle. God bless you guys so happy you're all okay.
Same storm? Awww were you by yourself? :-(
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Wow! That was a scary video, thanks for sharing it. I've watched lots of videos of that storm, but this one was probably the scariest. Thankfully there was the comic relief brought by the words of that dear child.
Hahhahahhaa children can be so funny.
"I wanna see a tornado!', immediate reply, 'No, no, no, no you don't.'
Wow, I couldn't imagine being in a storm like that in a car. Thank God you and your family didn't get hurt. Your baby is cute.
Sorry for the loss of your Grandma and your dog, but glad you all came out of this ok. I was in a similar situation myself on I-80 just west of Brooklyn. In a Dodge RAM by myself but with a CB so it didn't seem I was by myself. I also was making a video with the iPhone during all this too. See Derecho Storm in Eastern Iowa
Never heard of a derecho before. Crazy winds.
SO GLAD YOU ALL ARE SAFE!
Me too. Thank you sooo much!!! :-)
My gosh, that lasted forever. I bet you guys thought it would never end. Glad you are safe now.
I have been binge watching derecho videos. You just said the smartest thing I have heard yet in any of them. Keep your purse close and I put my wallet in my pocket. I remember growing up it being tornado season. If it was still storming at night we could go to bed. BUT..... we went to bed with our shoes on. I have seen countless storm videos where kids and grownups alike don’t have any shoes on! Hey, let’s go walk out of the debris of our house barefooted! Said no one. Keep all valuables in waterproof strong box. When they start giving bad weather put it on the table or somewhere you can grab it fast. Going to the storm pit? Take it before the storm gets here. Common sense people
Yea we were trying to be prepared. I got a jacket for each person and Brooklyn had a hat and a pillow and we lifted the screen for the windows in case the glass broke it would help stop some from coming through. We thought it was a tornado so I couldn't unbuckle but I was scared that our luggage and stuff in the back would hit us if we would have flipped or whatever. I didn't really want to die by way of luggage and a cooler.
I've done the going to bed dressed and with shoes on too. If I could trust my subbasement not to ever get water, I would have a permanent bed down there just in case lol
I’ll never forget that day. I live in the Quad Cities and we took a direct hit as well. I had to hide all my coworkers in a cooler until it passed . It hit around 130pm that afternoon. The destruction was unimaginable. I got power back that same night at my apartment but my mom had no power for nearly a week.
Wow!!!!!!! I'm so sorry. Glad y'all were ok 👍
I love storms. This looks absolutely terrifying even for storm-lovers like me.
I would of been crying at that point. I’m terrified of storms. Bravo for the children for being so calm
I was praying as i was shaking.
The vehicle is moving like a swivel rocking chair! Sorry for your bad times during 2020 - you had a rough year. God Bless
It amazes me that people are still driving and moving insane
I will never forget that storm. Tried filming it at a Cook County Forest Preserve in Illinois. The wind knocked down my cameras, blew my French Fries all over the field and sogged up my McDonalds Quarter Pounder with cheese. But I got other storm videos under my belt. Subscribed.
😆 🤣 your poor tummy not getting your mcds. I'm sorry. Hope your camera was okay.
I have been through 2 tornaders. I heard the same sound 10 August I did many moons ago. This monstrous storm lasted much longer. We were safe in the basement of a new construction home. Praise the Lord!
Scary! Glad you're safe. :-)
Yall crazy 💀 😂
@@GamingWithRabbit correct
Sea, I hate to tell you this, but new construction is actually LESS safe during stuff like this.
@@redbaron474 Jawohl Herr Baron! Das wiesen wir! It was a finished home. I wasn't going to worry unless the wind moved the tracked skid loader. It was only the beginning of the incredible storm.
Wow! Thanks for the upload! 2020 continues it's reign of terror! Y'all were super calm! I would've been sh!tting my pants! Blizzards I can take! Hurricanes and tornadoes NOPE!
Hurricanes are alright as long as you get away from the surge.
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 I can’t stand weather that’s too extreme like blizzards with 100 mph winds. It’s scary.
I’m not passing judgements, just wondering if turning the car facing where the wind is coming from would be safer then being sideways to it
I recently found out the answer is yes! That's what one meteorologist said, anyway. But I don't think it would be feasible to turn the car that way with all those other cats there.
How you going to turn the car on the interstate? Traffic was still going by
Actually, towards the end of the video one guy did...but then after a minute..he actually drove over the grassy middle area and went back the other way..since it was blocked ahead. He ended up on the correct side of the road but another guy turned around and was driving the wrong way on the highway. It was weird
I just can't imagine being in a car in that...wow.
People could train what to do in these cases. The best thing would be that everyone stuck very close to each other so the it creates more of a wind block. I'm so glad you're safe. That was intense and you made it.
I was driving up from St Louis back home in Iowa and got caught in this storm north of Iowa City and into Cedar Rapids on I-380. Scary stuff!! Glad your all okay to tell then tale!
Oh geeze. So scary! Were you by yourself?
@@LindsAyWithAttitude yes, so I had no clue what was going on, I just started recording and pushed through it.
I think this is more than just strongest derecho in iowa history idk if there was any other derecho least not in the past decade or so with wind gusts up to 140mph
There was one in Detroit area in the early 1980s that they claimed at over 160 mph winds. I remember it growing up, we called it the Orange Storm because the sky got all kinds of strange orange and yellow colors when the storm hit at 730am. buildings in the southern suburbs of Detroit got leveled, railroad cars flipped. The storm wasn't that bad where I lived more west northwest of Detroit but still knocked out our power for 8 days
I was visiting from Colorado my Son and Granddaughters in Cedar Rapids when this happened! Very scary storm indeed!
Glad to know you and your family are ok. Your little girl sounds cute.
Thanks. Me too. Lol my niece is super cute lol she's in my duck ride video a little bit. :-)
"Does anyone have to go pee?" LOL I am sitting on my foot watching this. Glad all safe.
Lmao. Did you hear what I said to her right after?
We in Florida calls this a mini hurricane lol
Thats exactly what it was...but we thought it was or was gonna be a tornado 🌪 🤔.
Kind of like in florida you call 65 degrees cold, we call it perfect weather lol
@@brandonsieber1335 you are right lol
I want to commend all of the adults in that rocking vehicle for keeping their wits about them and an even tone in their voices and not scaring your totally entertaining little niece ! The 1:30pm weather notice gave you at least an end to look forward to but I see it was off the mark. Anyhow, a great crew !-- Council Blfs
Bless you! Thank you! xo
Lucky your windshield didn't get smashed in. I heard there were reports of hail in the storm as well as wind 106+...a truly brutal combination.
Stop being so hard on these people, they did best they could do in an emergency situation. God was watchn over em. so peace out, be nice, you people prob would be a bunch of screaming lunatics if it happened to u guys.
Lol and there were a ton of others out too. It wasn't just us.
@@LindsAyWithAttitude Don't listen to the negative they weren't in your shoes. God bless you guys
I was working at a school in marion and I tore most the roof off the gym. It also knocked over a job trailer which was a normal single wide and shoved it about 20-30 ft into a light pole which about tore it in half.
Oh i saw a school that had half the roof off...same one probably. On a main road? Traffic was insane!!! We couldn't get out...took forever
@@LindsAyWithAttitude it was pretty close to the main road. We were in the school and the middle gym doors were rattling badly.
@@LindsAyWithAttitude the wind in Marion that day hit 130 mph
The town I live in it lasted for about 45 minutes, I live west of CR in Watkins. I laterally stood and held a door on the west side of my house closed because it kept blowing open. Most of the area was without power for a week though
Yea it was 45 min. And I know the power was out in a huge area... we almost ran out of gas and finally found power in des moines to get gas! Glad you are safe. Hopefully you didn't have too much damages like what we saw driving through iowa
My house made it ok it was built in 1877, it took it like a champ and I luckily had to take our 3 elm trees down a couple of years ago because of elm disease but everyone around me had damage
You can touch metal all you want inside your car. It's like a Faraday cage, assuming the body is metal and not some composite. Lightning will follow the path of least resistance around the shell of the vehicle to ground. If it weren't, not touching metal wouldn't save you from a lightning strike anyway. It jumped a mile through the air. If it gets inside the car, it sure as hell can jump into you.
12:32 "Can't record the whole thing, it's all the same"
Guy sits there recording the whole thing.
lmao pretty much. Love this comment!
Little kids, I gotta go to the bathroom....adults...yeah we gotta pee too....everyone just sits there.....me thinking, "I'd pee in that storm" lol.
Lol
I hid in my house during this and I thot I would die holy cow this was scary. If I were in your spot I think I would have a heart attack and die
We were trying to prepare for something more (car flipping over or getting sucked up by a funnel cloud) yet didnt want to scare my niece. At one point i was having her pray with me. I was So scared.
@@GamingWithRabbit The only dumb person here is you. Go away troll.
It's THOUGHT, not thot.
Red Baron it’s just one wrong word chill everyone makes mistakes
@@epic_.l Actually it's not just "one wrong word". It indicates a lack of education and intelligence... which has become a huge problem in America.
dang thats crazy, ive been through a storm similar to that years ago. i dont think ive ever been through a derecho but ive been through some crazy storm down in florida for a vacation, we couldnt see anything there was so much rain and the power went out for a second, we took shelter in a restaurant
That sounds terrifying!!
I wish I was there but I got a lot of lightning and thunder out of that derecho
Where at?
This derecho had winds up to 145 MPH at times. That's Category 4 on the Saffer-Simpson Scale. I gave this storm the name, Andrea.
Quick! Everybody put on your MASKS!
Lol we did not have those on haha
It's blowing like a hurricane!!!!!!!
Moral of the story, always take time to strap the ladders and cargo down extra securely.
Exactly 😆
Everybody's pulled over on the side of the highway trying to wait it out. Lucky the hurricane like winds didn't blow the car over.
I was surprised their windows didn't break like so many housed did that day.
@@BlackBilby Car windows are curved and can stand up to the wind a little better. I don't think it would have helped if the car had been hit by airborne debris.
2020 just be like well yall have not been scared enough so here's this
Lmao best comment ever! 😂😂😂
@@LindsAyWithAttitude 2022 seems like it’s playing out to be worse weather wise…
"I don't care". No because you only care about yourself; self centered. As long as they aren't doing anything to you, you have no right to put anyone other than yourself down. Plus, you are no better then they are. At least they are trying to resolve their issues instead of just sitting there and judging others by not minding their own business. What is not any of your business, you have no right to negatively judge them. We don't need wicked "people" around as yourself.
Can't wait until all wickedness are permanently dead, gone and forgotten. Only love, peace and righteousness exists.
What is this referring to?
This is the weirdest comment lol I think this was meant for another video maybe?
I’ve been thru one of these but I was in a 90 foot houseboat in the middle of the lake
That sounds terrifying!!!!! Glad you weren't hurt
LindsAy with Attitude I wasn’t we just kept going in circles
What about the radio, unless it was out?
No we had it on and it wasn't saying anything about it, really. then we turned it down...as you do when you're looking for a location or trying to concentrate lol ...
Pull over with your car, truck or van facing into the wind. Do NOT open the windows. Turn off the engine to save gas. Don't pull over on a dirt strip, you might get stuck. Do not continue if the road is flooded. Don't park near trees or power poles. Stay in your vehicle.
Tis just alot of wind and rain. could have kept on driving. If i can see threw the window. I would still be driving. I have driven in heavy rain and wind before. also thur snowstorms before. Yes Did drive slower. alot slower. but was still moving.
traffic was stopped due to 2 semi trailers that were overturned from the storm.
I feel y'all. My dad's truck broke down right before the storm hit, so we had to wait out the storm-
I was clinging to my brother the whole time, lol
Oh nooooooo. That would be so scary, I'm so sorry 😞. Glad y'all are ok
I seeing these videos as recommended? Saw people videos from their homes, omg you are out there? Hope you are all safe
Imagine this hitting you for 2 days like hurricane Francis did to florida. That 1 was not fun.
People learn new things all the time..but.they dont expect mother nature will have any tricks up her sleeve..
That's for sure lol
NO I DON'T CARE IF I'TS 100 MPH or 5 MPH you keep moving!!! Get out of there!!! I've got plenty of personal stories to share on tornadoes.
This may be a dumb question.... but.... are we supposed to roll windows down a tiny bit?
I dunno... I remember when I was a kid they said to open windows but when I got older they said not to and now I have no idea.
LindsAy with Attitude Pretty much the story of my life! Lol.
No, you don’t need to open any windows. If it was a tornado, the tornado would open anything it wanted to, anyway. They use to say open windows to release pressure. But there is enough openings to release pressure. To many people are injured or killed trying to open up windows during a tornado. In a car it would be probably more dangerous to open a window because it would become less aerodynamic. These people did everything correct. It might have been better if they turned into the wind, but as you can see only high profile vehicles were blown over. I hope answered your question.
Thanks
@@libertylost8286 thank you! That was very helpful.
We are glad you are all okay. Sorry about your bf dog.
This looks very scary I'm from Fargo north Dakota and I've been though some scary big wind storm and they are saying there might be one this summer in north Dakota
I read a lot of the comments. But the derecho in 1980 in the Detroit area was stronger than this one in Iowa. We had winds of 150 mph in Dearborn Michigan that uprooted oak trees that were over 200 years old.
Omg thats insane. Although I saw trees uprooted too around town. Thats so crazy, were you in it? Did you have bad damages?
@@LindsAyWithAttitude My parents were without power for over two weeks. Roofs were torn off thousands of homes in the Detroit area. Trees were down everywhere. It took more than a week to clear the roads and travel was difficult. We didn't have the crop damage as you did, because we are mostly an urban area. Lenawee and Monroe counties to our south suffered the most crop damage. Your state suffered more because the storms moved through a lot of farming areas.
Lindsay. It's a storm.
I remember thar day. It was very stressing.
Just like a hurricane except more damed fools out on the road. You could see contrails to the left of the tires of the truck in front of them.
Sorry about your grandmother even though it has been months ago. I live in hurricane country (Florida) and have been through this at least a dozen times. You didn't have much or any preparation time. An overpass would have been nice if you could have found one. I hope you found a gass station that had power. Most people don't realize that you can't get gas if there is no electricity for the pump. The station that has an auxiliary power generator can sell a lot of gas.
We almost ran out of gas before we finally found a town that had power. Just after the storm we had to use the bathroom and no gas station was letting people open due to no power... but we found 1 place, thank God that let us use their bathroom, just warned us we were unable to flush it lol
I see there was a lot of flash flooding too. Anyone trying to speed and drive would've hydroplane and blow right off the road. Same people that create pileups in snowstorms.
That storm is not a tornado but a very strong derecho derecho meaning for the Spanish word straight ahead and that’s what those storms did to be a derecho it has to have consecutive wind gusts of 58 miles per hour for at least 240 miles and damage reports have to come in within 2 hours of each other so you’re experiencing a derecho not a tornado now derechos can have tornadoes in them what you guys are going through is very very strong damaging straight line winds
Yeah.. i know. No one knew though....everyone thought it was a tornado or sorts
To the RIGHT a la derecho
I Hope there is one thing you have learned from this and that is when you are on your own you always ALWAYS check the weather before and during traveling...ALWAYS.
Yeah. Well we were going through 3 states on a schedule..but when it started to get a little dark all it said was that it was going to rain. We had no clue. No one seemed to know, the whole town was shocked.
@@LindsAyWithAttitude WOW upset here are you by some information to help in the future....My God what have people raised that can't think beyond their emotional anger....Feel sorry for you as your future not going to be a good one if you can't take advice from people who have lived through many storms and try to help
@@tamaragonzalez2227 Oh suck it up Tamara, I mean Scarlet, I mean Tamara.
@@tamaragonzalez2227 what? I'm having trouble understanding what you mean. Did I come off as angry? I'm not. I was just conversing with you. I am sorry that what I said came off as rude or angry. My bad?!
@@judy123 lol what? Scarlet?
Lol. If winds are over 85 it’s a tornado!🤣. It has to have rotation to be a tornado. Even a tiny dust devil is a tornado. Winds can be over 300 mph. But without rotation it is just windy.
Lmao...I know. It was part of a conversation we had before that...It just sounded bad how I worded it. How it sounded is not what I what it was haha. Sometimes things I say comes out really wrong. 🌪🌬 If you were there for the previous conversation and feeling what we felt you would know what I meant lol 😆
LindsAy with Attitude lol. We can say some goofy things in the heat of the moment!
Why would u sit ur car side on to 100mph winds??
Wow crazy
From ryleigh
Hey gurl....this vid really didn't show it. The van was up in the air a few times and he didn't show the trees and crops blowing. I had no more room on my phone and didn't really have time to gwt out tye camera. We thought we would flip over or the windows would blow out. Rain was coming in from the doors and it was one of the scariest moments of our lives. Electricity was out in over 1 million places and we couldnt find a gas station with electricity to get gas ...we literally almost ran out of gas and we saw sooooo much destruction. It was a horrible trip back and we were stuck in that town for 3 hours! I'm glad y'all were safe!
@@LindsAyWithAttitude OMG, LindsAy with Attitude, we literally almost ran out of gas toooooo!! I filmed this derecho as well on my channel -- captured the literal museum (destruction) of storm art. Yes gurl, there was NO gas stations open! I hope this wasn't the case for you when you finally got near your house... on our street, a huge power line was down and the road was blocked. We couldn't get in and had to go all the way around...the longer route....with our gas sign on and us (my sister and I) smelling our gas tank -- the strong concentrated odor the few drops of propane gas left. Quite alarming. I'm glad you and you're family are safe.
Ohh no!!!
Well we live in kc mo...we couldn't find gas til Des Moines!!
I can't wait to watch your video!! Im glad y'all are safe!
Today I'm at risk for sever thunder storms
What happened? Did you get them? Or did they pass? Hope all is well!
I would have loved being in this storm
Weather weaponized.
Could you park a vehicle into the wind, in this kind of a situation?
Watch others from this day on a new episode of Deadline to Disaster on the Weather Channel!
Is it not better to face your vehicle INTO the direction the wind is coming from?
yes i think you're correct. It was not feasible to do so on the hwy with all other vehicles though.
Oh, that's just a hurricane
lol ya...we don't get those out in the midwest. haha
@@LindsAyWithAttitude technically a hurricane but straight line and no eye or eyewall.
This was crazy I thought my sister would be crying but I thought wrong and also me being in a different car then my family is scary we had two car for the vacation but over all it was fun
Two | CARS |
Wow would have been nice to have some
Wonder if the cops up ahead had to be out in that
No. As far as I know they stayed in their cars
In your house, stay away from windows. Take shelter in the hallway or your basement.
We were traveling home. We didn't know anyone in that city or state
So basically it’s a hurricane on land?
Edit: who was the little girl asking about in Heaven(if that’s what she said)?
She asked about loved ones in heaven, if they were safe. 😀 She's 5. She's my niece. At the end she said it smelled like donuts and then she wanted donuts hahahaha.
Yes, hurricane on land but we had no clue about it and thought it was gonna be a tornado.
@@LindsAyWithAttitude I thought that was what she was doing. Such a sweetheart💕I’m so thankful that your family members were able to safe during the storm. Her parents sound so calm. I would’ve been terrified. I’ve been terrified of bad storms since I was a little kid. I’m 42 now and still think about crawling under my bed lol!
Hurricane weather
"the cops are here to help" PFFFFFT id never tell my kids that.instead ill tell them: when you have a problem and you call the cops you now have two problems
That is not how we feel at all. We respect law enforcement and have many friends that are or were very respectable police officers. If you show respect to someone, they usually respect you as well...unless they are not a good person. However, I do understand why you may feel this way with these times.
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" if it's over 85 I think it is a tornado ". I think it's a tornado when it's a tornado.. Your traveling with your family and this storm is approaching and you don't turn on radio or get someplace safer...wow thanks dad..
It came out of nowhere. I wanted to go into some buildings but my sister was a couple miles ahead and I think he was wanting to be near them...but we never could get to them. The 85 thing...yea a tornado is a tornado but we had some winds that seemed to swirl at first and tornado wind speeds are usually really high like that. You didn't hear the conversations before the recording started either. There was like 20 minutes before that.
Scott if you don't have anything good to say you just keep it to your self
Lol thanks
Scott did you not see all the cars in front of them. They stop traveling and that was the right thing to do, since this came out of no where. People are so rude, especially, not knowing the situation.
JoAnna Scheall if they were traveling it didn't pop up everyone around the country knew this was coming through the area. So don't tell me it just came out of nowhere..it didn't..
So I don’t know when people started calling these Derechos... all of a sudden like 2 weeks ago I start seeing this word all around,... But this is called a Micro burst.. Not a derecho
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If you really needed to pee, you could just step outside, hold onto the door, do your business, then have a refreshing rinse and blow dry before getting back into the truck. It would be like a Japanese toilet! ;-)
Lol. Blowing pee. Like a toilet with wind and water that blows away your waste XD.
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We love this shit in florida. We have partys lol. Hurricane parties 🤣🤣 i bet youll were freaked out. But at least you experienced something new and exciting yet scary.
Horrible at holding up the camera.
The vehicle was moving a lot more than it looked like in the vid. When you're scared and you aren't still, you may not be perfect at holding a phone lol
Beyond boring.....
one time a orange tool says "the climate change is a oax""....well..........................
Wtf does this have to do with anything
i know it a highway point the nose of the car with the wind it better it wont blow the car like that
Yup. You're right.
Typical 2020 stuff...
Lol ya no big deal...like the fire tornadoes... lol
Crazy times we are living in, you guys had a derecho and California had a fire tornado yesterday. 2 things I never knew existed
Ummm yea...whats a fire tornado???
@@LindsAyWithAttitude I have no clue. Saw it on the news. I'm like ummm what's that 👀👀
@@FaithandNova lol i will definitely be looking that up!
@@FaithandNova it's to do with the wind and the weather spins it
We can now add two hurricanes at the same time in the Gulf to that list! 😬