Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Derecho Caught on Camera
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- Winds in excess of 130-mph moved through eastern Iowa Monday, August 10th, 2020. One of the hardest-hit areas was the Cedar Rapids, Iowa metro. This video was filmed in Cedar Rapids and shows just how powerful the winds were.
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People keep comparing this to a hurricane, and say that hurricanes last for hours while this only lasted for 30 minutes. I'll tell you that the biggest difference that actually makes this scarier and worse than a hurricane is that we only had minutes to prepare for it. No time to board up windows and secure belongs. No time to cut down trees and weak branches that might come crashing through our house. No time to decide whether it's be safe enough to stay or if we should stay with our family up north for a bit. No time to make sure we have enough fuel and food to last weeks without power, water, and gas. With a hurricane, you at least get up to a week or more to prepare. We only had minutes.
Got it by one of these in VA as a kid and never seen anything like it since. Nearly died from a tree crashing into my house. Even Hurricane Isabella did less damage
Zachary that is so horrible I live in North Carolina and we get true hurricanes but you are right we get time to plan. A storm like y'all had would be too scary for words. I saw pictures of the devastation pretty unreal. Hope you and your family made out ok
Why did you only have minutes to prepare? Warning system failed? I ask because it originated in the South Dakota-Nebraska border area and I knew it was coming here in Nebraska, so you all should have known it was coming, giving you were more that 200 miles from it's starting point.
@@danr4316 Partial failure i am sure.. Only half the city got warnings via sirens and emergency phone alerts seemed too be pretty hit n miss.. Most people I talked to had no warning. Though I noticed a few people on the south end SE and SW I talked to did get notifs. I live on the north west side of Cedar Rapids and we had no idea. I just went to walk up the stairs to use the bathroom and thought it sounded like someone was taking a shower and was getting worried about having to wait. When i got to the main floor I noticed it was raining kinda hard and the lights flickered.. and when i went towards the bathroom power died.. My sis and I watched the storm through the front door. We never got any kind of alert the entire time even while it was happening.. No phone alerts which is typical for us to get in our area, no sirens, maybe fm radio (we don't have a radio anymore) but i doubt that cause my bro who is fedex ground delivery said he got nothing too and he was out there drivin his truck when this happened and a tree went through his window (he's fine thankfully all be it a couple cuts) .. I think for most of the city this was a surprise attack from nature. I think my other brother was saying while they did get alerts (they live on the south side) it didn't say anything about 140mph winds. it was like around 40-60mph winds.. So even the ones that were alerted.. it was very much underestimated, and he said that they only had like a 13 min warning.
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I've been through several tornados during my life in Iowa, and through several floods. This was, by far, worse than the rest. Our landscape is changed forever in a very visible way, and we have a long road ahead to heal from this.
People in Iowa have no idea how bad this was in areas, like Newton and Marshalltown, no one was warned of this. Des Moines had no damage in comparison to CR. And as one other commenter stated, we had no warning of this. My poor little town was devastated. People still have no power.
Emmi B - I’m in Des Moines, and we certainly had a lot of tree damage, but not nearly as bad as the Hwy 30 corridor. I thought my 55 hrs without power was frustrating. Then I had friends north who went 8 or 9 days without.
I’m originally from Marshalltown, and was up there the day after the tornado in 2018. Kind of sickening. And then to have this. And instead of a half-mile wide path across town it was whole counties wide across half the state. UNREAL.
Is their more footage videos you could send
Back in 2006 St. Louis got hit with a similar storm, straight line winds in excess of 75+ mph hit the city head on, knocking out power to 400,000+ residents. I was a kid at the time and still remember it vividly to this day, one of the scariest storms I've ever seen.
Mine was 140 mph winds
There’s still many of us without power. This was by far the worst natural disaster that has hit Cedar Rapids and the surrounding areas of Iowa. We are still trying to recover, the worst part was that the sirens only alerted us merely a few minutes before the winds kicked in. Some people were trapped in houses for days because of the trees blocking their exits, and they were without power. You’d have to drive 40 minutes to an hour to the nearest working gas station. A lot of colleagues of mine have either left the state or left to Waterloo or Des Moines for several days and still aren’t back yet. Luckily, things are slowly rebuilding.
I remember watching this storm creep in. I was playing video games and all of the sudden my power cut out. Looked outside and saw a huge black mass in the sky covering it so quickly- it was gut wrenching. Three and a half weeks without power in the summer heat was absolute hell.
Was on my way to work when this rolled through, by bar the most amazing intense storm I've ever seen. Never will forget it. Thought the first round of winds was it and jumped in my truck and headed out, 5 minutes later trees are falling all over and I'm dodging powerless. Adrenaline rush 10/10
Yea, it went on for quite a spell. Don't care to be in the middle of one of those ever again.
I was 20 minutes away from Cedar Rapids when it hit. I've never seen anything like this in real life. The aftermath was unbelievable and many are still without power.
So r the food crkps really hurting
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Weird thing is - I was on my way to Cedar Rapids to go look at a job (I'm an electrician) but I was running behind on my last job. Had I not been running behind I would have been caught right in the middle of it.
reminds me a lot of a hurricane. i feel terrible for these people, had little time to prepare. praying for all of you. about to drive from the east coast back to MN, going to drive through there. how devastating, my heart goes out to all.
Amazing video! I watched this from my house in Des Moines; it wasn’t as bad as CR, but we lost power for 4 days and internet for 5. One thing missing from these storm damage videos is rural areas. Iowa crops were destroyed or severely damaged across the state, anywhere from 4-10 million acres I’ve read. Iowa is not built for this kind of storm.
I've had the eye of a category 1 hurricane storm go right over my house (150mi inland) and it looked a lot like this. It's not so much that the wind is 100mph, it's that it lasts what seems like forever. And you keep hearing limbs snapping, trees falling...was without power for nearly 2 weeks after that hurricane (Fran). Wishing you guys the best as you recover from this.
We had a derecho in central Wisconsin last summer. Had never even heard of them before. And I can tell you that the only weather warning we had was for thunderstorms. They are awful and my heart goes out to all Iowans who had to go through it.☹️
Same and siren's for about 2 mins here in Cedar rapids
Was there for that. We had 100mph winds in Stevens Point but only lasted a few minutes. This looks even worse
Steve Guse - it was crazy, wasn’t it! I think you’re right- the one in Iowa was definitely worse.
JadonGamer - thanks for that clarification.
@JadonGamer , maybe so but they need to start calling them Derechos and make it clear that they're no joke. Here they just gave severe thunderstorm as a warning. That means very little because we're constantly hearing severe thunderstorm and they've never been actually severe until the derecho.
I'm in OMaha, and our winds hit just shy of 80mph. By the time it hit DesMoines winds were 100mph! I read where Cedar rapids area winds were clocked at over110mph!! It was horrible.
They just updated, Cedar Rapids winds clocked out at 140 mph. 😔
It was absolutely horrifying! And the damage is upsetting
Holy crap that's just insane wind gusts with only minutes (if that) to prepare...WOW!!!
That derecho in Iowa was a horrific storm and caused devastating damage. I feel sorry for the people affected by this storm.
It’s almost cruel to pair hurricane winds with absolutely no warning. All I heard beforehand was “it sounds like there’s going to be hail today” and “the power’s out, I guess I have to open the garage manually to get my car out of the coming hail.” Less than five minutes later winds pick up and I can’t see the neighbor’s house anymore. At least in a hurricane, you get a good few days notice to evacuate the area.
We have had a few up to 60 to 80mph.in TN.
Delivered pigs to that area years ago. Really hate to hear and see this, beauty of a state and classy people..
@killroyhero, my daughter and her family live smack dab in the path of this hellscape of Cedar Rapids!
Her husband is on redeployment to "the Middle East"; {that alone makes for an angry grandma!}
So, she hadn't left for work yet, yes, she is a Funeral Director/Mortician, so she just had enough time to put the boys and herself into an interior room with a blanket over their heads and flashlights and books!
Her new 3 season porch ended up in a neighbors garage! Her deflated pool somehow ended up in a different neighbor's backyard, full of water! That's the one that perked my ears!
I'm in SD and have been in blizzards with 80 m.p.h. winds, on the farm. We also lost our windmill once to what I have often believed was a derecho, they just didn't have a word for it then!
Hoping you and yours are okay today! Peace!
well we didn’t know it was gonna happen. there wasn’t even any rain in the forecast
My friends in Clinton Iowa told me about this in their town. Omg. They’re still hearing chainsaws during the day. All day.
I live in Cedar Rapids. My neighborhood just got power back. Woooooh!
Are there any cedars left standing?
We just got power today 🤦🏾♀️😭😭
@@aishajuma2334 omg! I'm so happy for you!
@@emilyevans8135 So happy for you!!! :)
From Norway Iowa, we were without power for a little over a week. I came to Cedar Rapids after the fact and just couldn't believe what I saw! Almost a month since the storm, it's going to take months to recover. Not just Linn county, but also Benton and Tama counties.
Ive always been fascinating with Deracho storms! Rare and awe powerful! Praying our friends in Iowa get power restored quickly!
When was the last one for you to fascinated by it?
Really?!? I have never heard of a derecho until now nor has anyone I know. How did you first hear about one? May I ask?
I love derechos. Their hectic wind patterns makes them very interesting to study and watch. A shame that this one took out 1/3 of Iowa's crops though...
That's still not answering either of our questions? When was the last one you saw to be fascinated by? Maybe a link to a past study or news event in which it happened? Are you really a bot? Why is a bot on a post like this?
@@iti7201 am I paranoid or is this a bot?
I'm so sorry to hear about people losing their business and homes, my prayers are with them.
Also the farmers they lost A LOT of money
Likely they didn't lose their homes. All they gotta do is merely go into Kansas to find it.
@@alexmorales9150 You must have a trained eye. Didn't see any money...and besides this shows Cedar Rapids...a city.
i'd not be surprised if many derechos had small and weak tornadoes in them. the damage they do sure as hell MATCHES what a tornado can do!
I talked to a guy at the Chanhassen National Weather Service about derechos spawning tornadoes. He explained that derechos contain tornadoes in the clouds above called spinups. They usually don't become full blown tornadoes but are known for the high winds and damage caused by these monsters.
I have never seen a derecho! I don’t want to see another
It's shredding everything in it's path ... horrendous!
th-cam.com/video/K9yDqnw-rEY/w-d-xo.html
2020: year of the derecho.
if we let climate change go on like this, IA's gonna look more like west NE or WY in a few years.
@Raymond Burns that's the future i see too :(
join the sunrise movement, folks. it's not just for hopeless kids.
Had a good one with 120 mph winds which followed I-94 from Benton Harbor to Downriver Detroit. July 1980. Pushed over a whole row of Edison towers in Lincoln Park. Tore the trees to shreds.
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt They say the storms are rare and let's keep it that way.
I've lived in the midwest my entire 62 years and never saw a storm like this. The odd part is that it lasted so long. Usually these are over in 5 minutes
Resembles the 18th fairway at CRCC. No more golf that afternoon! The course lost over 100 trees in a 1966 tornado. But power outages then were rather limited. Condolences to the many thousands who've lost power, homes, or even lives.
Being outside at the airport golf course when it hit was the DUMBEST thing we have ever done. Didn't come in when we heard sirens because they didn't sound the horn at the clubhouse then BAM here I am kicking down an older couples door till they heard me and brought me in....
Iowa man
😯
Hopefully everyone is okay after this storm I was asking God to have Mercy!!
We are ok its just a lot of people died from chainsaws and tree branches
Have got two similar storms where I live in the last 2 years, although not quite as bad wind. Our winds got up to high 90s in the first one and low 90s in the second this year
I was following this storm into iowa in a semi. In nebraska the wind blew over a RV right in front of me. when i got into my yard in iowa, i started delivering empty reefer trailers to the local grocery stores so they could store frozen foods. got alot of pictures of downtown newton, looked just like tornado towns ive been through
Thank You for your video. I HATE to see the destruction but something in me is drawn to the power.
Hoping you and yours are safe. The crop destruction must be horrible, as is electric being out. Freezers thawing ... loss of food
Great footage! Thanx. Storms like that are called flippers where I live (meaning house trailers). Bet there were a lot of them flipped. Those poor trees. Yuck.
We had 12 huge beautiful trees in our yard! 8 are completely gone and destroyed our garage, broke windows to our house, and even my dad's car was crunched.
😯
Pray that y'all and your neighbors are okay🙏🙏❤️❤️....from Tuscaloosa,Alabama...God bless
WOW!, the same type of storm that went through my town, in Minnesota 1993 with 110 mph winds.
That was a summer of crazy weather.
That's a full blown strong hurricane inland, away from the coast. And just as damaging, unfortunately
Imagine if this had lasted for hours, like a hurricane!
Thomas Blanchard Imagine having time to prepare, like a hurricane!
wickeli God I really hate one uppers 😒
elr456 I meant it kinda as a joke, both suck and for similar reasons. Didn’t really like their comment is why I said it.
wickeli I should have said I ALSO hate one uppers, I’m on your side lol
This is scary, more like a straight tornado, prayers are all I can send .x
This storm was the worst natural disaster marion, Iowa has probably ever seen. You can’t go one block without seeing trees ripped from the ground, roofs ripped off houses or power lines completely on the ground
As close to a tornado as you can get with straight-line winds. Unreal.
Not natural. Caused by haarp
No not harrp but did you vote Trump the antichrist?
Now, that is a fabulous video. Those gust were at least 100 to 120 mph. Some videos show nothing bad at all, but this one captures the power.
Wow, reminds me of some of the tropical storms/hurricanes !!😱
Terrifying. Those winds seem like they're from a hurricane or a tornado. Good shooting vantage point, behind a sturdy brick building...
This storms winds were the equivalent of a category 3 hurricane or EF-2 tornado. It was basically an inland cat-3 hurricane
my neighborhood in Cedar Rapids is decimated. this was a terrifying experience that our city will never really recover from.
So sorry that this happened to you.
I’m sorry to hear this. The NWO is ramping up their plans to destroy everything. LBJ said; “ He who controls the weather controls the World”! He said this in the 1960’s at a commencement address. Everyone needs storm cellars. Weather modification is real and very scary. God Bless. Stay strong 🙏🏻❤️
John Hofmeister -- I used to live in Cedar Rapids and still have lots of family there. It’s such a great place and so unfair to have yet another tragedy-- thought you guys had your share with the flooding years ago. As if we needed any more crap from 2020..........
i never realized this city had so many trees until i seen most of them on the ground
jerry arnold
My youngest told me she learned in school (many years ago) that CR had won awards for having the most trees in a city our size. Now she says we’ll be known for the most toothpicks! (She’s 18 now btw)
We just got power back about 7pm here near Beaver park & Grant Wood Elementary school, day 10!! My Husbeast and I are originally from Kansas, both grew up there. Survived our share of F5’s. This derecho? We’d never seen anything like it!! We had no cell service until Sunday night.
Shit this aint nothin to what i see when we get hurricanes
We've lost shade for 150 years....sure the softwoods & Maples & Walnuts & Pines will grow back in about 20 or 30 years....mature Oaks won't be seen again for many generations. The shade they provided shall be dearly missed. 😢
@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 Take a ride east of Antigo, Wisconsin towards Marinette. 30 miles of totally decimated mature woods. I never seen anything like it. Happened July, 2019.
@@FishOholic17 Yeah but we can see hurricanes coming far in advance. This just came out of nowhere.
Worst thing to happen to our state in probably a century or more. I farm 20 minutes east of cedar rapids. I dont even know if we are going to be able to rebuild. It's like a tornado demolished entire counties
Ben Kistler I wish you the best. Farm put food on our table.
So sorry :(
Prayers out to all the farmers. Hope you guys can get help to rebuild.
Ben kistler sorry to her that. I wish the best for you and your family.
So it really damaged that much food crops
That wind was unworldly..
Survivor here, live in cedar rapids. Never seen a storm like this. Its like a hurricane where we had 112mph winds for 40mins but unlike coastal areas we had TONS of 150+ year old timber and the sheer volume of old growth that fell on houses and streets is unbelievable, like four to five foot diameter trees down all over town. it took five days for them to clear my street and not for lack of trying. I still can't access my driveway due to downed power poles, Going on 7 days without power, not a big deal, we still have water and gas so its not as bad as people make it out to be. An amazing display of gods power though thats for sure! And a miracle that only three people were lost.
God's just sharing his love for us, n'est ce pas?
First it was W, then Obama, now trump and Covid and derecho.
you had 112mph winds for a matter of a few seconds. not to argue or anything but you were on the cyclonic side of the Derecho which can develop gustnadoes and can cause mixing of the low level jet which is where the super strong winds come from. the rear inflow jet can cause strong sustained winds of 40 to 60mph for a significant duration long after the initial storm passes which is what happened in this system. Cedar Rapids was at basically the worst/strongest part of the storm. Incredible system I'm jealous I didn't get to experience it. The system basically started a few miles north west of my town of Sioux City but it wasnt matured yet.
And the pissing contest begins.
Confirmed wind gusts to up to 140 mph. This equals to a category 4 hurricane.
My whole roof was blown off. This was truly devastating.
It’s like a tornado and a hurricane had a baby. No time to plan like for a tornado but lasts as long as the strongest winds of a hurricane. Wonder if the rest of this tree made it?
I’m in the corner of Iowa (bottom) there was nothing that severe here at all it was windy and looked like a storm was coming but my brothers where one was in Cedar Rapids near the video he had a military grade trailer flip and my other brother was in South Carolina with another hurricane the luck of my family 😂
Thank you for posting this. Hope you're a-ok.
A hurricane with no eye. Straight line winds. I have never heard of that name before.
Me either! Sounds like something just make up!
Or something unnatural.
Definitely seemed unnatural to me, can't explain it!
Watched many different video versions, all seemed unnatural, very Strange!
I’ve delt with winds like that twice in south Louisiana. One recently when two hail storms back to back hit me, destroyed a tree in my backyard, a squall line which is the same as a derecho but shorter and less strong hit me, knocked down a basketball goal into the side of my dads car, winds were recorded around 60 mph, but our weather station picked up 39
Lasted for like 10 seconds and before it was slightly windy and raining hard, next thing I knew I heard what sounded like a lot of air moving through really fast, and stuff started getting damaged
Derecho hit upstate New York/northern PA, a decade ago. Widely reported.
There was a smaller one in northern IL about that same time.
Due to time of year, no crop damage but substantial damage to roofs, buildings, trees.
This one, a bit unique due to duration and coverage swath.
Derechos happen often in the midwest
See they keep saying we had gusts....that is sustained wind.
I didn't know this could happen in Iowa.
Dang! And here in Missouri nothing happened at all.
We actually had hurricane winds in S.W.Ohio 12 years ago from a hurricane 70 to 75 mile an hour winds. The jet stream air above was moving so fast it wouldn't let they hurricane winds be absorbed into the jet stream it knocked my power out for 2 weeks but nothing like the derecho.
Whoa!!! That was a huge storm.
Wow, great footage!! Thank you for sharing. 💯
Amazing video!
That was quite a storm ⛈️ 😎
I’d never heard this term Derecho? And had no idea it is capable of such destruction.
I can totally relate - In California we had a strong Santa Ana wind that hit 35mph. I also got a sunburn.
Winds hit upward of 130mph.. its been over 10 days since we've had power. I watched a home in our neighborhood burn to the ground after a downed electrical line caused a fire but the firetruck couldn't get down the street because 3 trees were blocking the road they had to just let it burn down.. it might be funny to you but its very real to us here and we're still struggling.
@@rickderby7425 Apologies - From the video I thought a few trees got damaged. Didn't know people were suffering. Prayers going up for those affected. Again, apologies for the inappropriate attempt at humor. : (
@@HappyFlapps you're totally fine man, I thought you were taking a jab. But that's the problem with mainstream media. Because we're Iowa they don't care and none of the world knows what's going on here. Our governor has done nothing. But living in California I'm sure you're well aware of how devastating nature can be. What's most important is that our community is coming together and helping the ones in need. All love brother and thanks for the prayers.
@@rickderby7425 God bless!
Boy I feel dumb, this is the first time I've ever heard of a derecho. Living here in N. Alabama we see more than just a few tornadoes and straight line winds.
GOD was playing with his new leaf blower.
Dorian Johnson, lol
Dorian Johnson 😂😂
Thats kinda funny. I wonder if it can snap those woof electric poles.
Multiple storms got together and looted are trees. 🌲 🌳 🌲 🌳 🌲 🌳
That's about a CAT 3 Hurricane here in Hawaii,Hurricane season here goes from June to November,6 months of the year were in Hurricane watch,were in the middle of it now....
That tree branch literally fell off so easily
They are not like the flexible palm trees down south.
@Mara L That video was at a golf course. Some of those trees were over 150 years old. At what angle should the trees have been planted?
I live in the Quad Cities. We had 86mph winds here that day.
Moving to Iowa from WA here soon, but as a born and raised Oklahoman, what's scary about this is, where I'm from it begins like a bad thunderstorm... and then trees are falling over.
I had just pulled into the truck stop on Center Point when this hit, winds were so strong I couldn't open my car door. (They say the wind speed ranged from 114 to 140 mph.)
Imagine being in Cedar Rapids when this happened
*crys in was there to visit family on that day*
I live in CR...this was hands down the most terrifying experience I've ever been though.
Imagine thinking this storm only affected Cedar Rapids
im just chilling in cedar rapids :D
:D
Only in Iowa do people watch severe storms from their front porch XD
Anyone who watched this from their front porch is gone, and so is their porch.
We do it a lot in Michigan too!
You set up the camera, push record and head for the basement!
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*and Indiana.
It was terrifying hearing trees snap and splinter. Was without power for 2 days, many people are without power going onto their 7th day
Still don't have power after 9 days...but we need to repair our roof before we can get our electric box back up.
This'll be day 11 for us.. i never imagined something like this here. And with no prep time..
Incredible...I think this one will be studied for a while. It's got to be one of the most powerful in recorded history.
There were worse in Illinois Indiana other places, too. Some are on YT.
@@GottaWannaDance I'm aware of the others, but this one was way stronger than the previous. The "Inland Hurricane" that damaged much of southern Illinois was also quite strong, but not exceeding 100 mph over such a broad swath.
@@GottaWannaDance This storm had confirmed wind gusts of over 110 mph (equivalent to a category 3 hurricane) with sustained tropical-storm-force winds for upwards of 30 mins. The only derecho that might be worse than this one is the June 2012 North American Derecho which only peaked at 91 mph wind gusts but lasted far longer.
I've been watching it all week. And was watching an hour before it hit cedar rapids ... from central Wisconsin no less. We were on the northern tip of it, but nowhere near as bad.
They're all powerful in their own way. This one , maybe it's the 43% crop loss report for the state. Others because of death toll or lack of warning.
At least this one was warned well ahead of time and everyone was in Covid lock down.
@@GottaWannaDance that's interesting because most of the people here in Cedar Rapids weren't aware that it was coming. We were told "severe thunderstorm warning" and the sirens went off. 10 minutes later trees were snapping in half, water leaking in the house and for a moment I thought our house was going to be blown away.
Man my poor home town I miss iowa
Who downvotes a real time video of a storm?
I drove directly in one of these storms years ago coming back around 3am in the morning from Iowa City to Mt. Pleasant. The sky was all green in color and got alot of wind and hail. Tornado warnings had been issued in the area I was driving. Wind was so strong it had flipped my car which had rolled into a cornfield by the strong winds outside of Crawfordsville Iowa which is the birth home of the Republican party. Luckly for me I survived without a scratch.
This storm came through my hometown of STL. We lost power for two whole days straight and I hated it. I never want to live through another derecho again.
My family lives in Council Bluffs, I always worry about 'em😧
I was in the one that went through the mid Atlantic in 2010 and I thought THAT was bad
This was beautifully horrible
The one in 2010 didn't come with much warning either. I was in my room and my whole window in my apartment shifted. Looked outside it was blue, green, and red lights in sky with winds similar to this. I ran too my unknown neighbors house with terror!
Here in Florida that is a typical late in the day summer storm.. now add in a bunch of cloud to ground lightning and you are good to go...
Amazing day. I was in my work car out in it. When it hit. Amazing experience. The hand of God for sure!
Just chillin in Cedar Rapids
Tree be like: "Tis but a scratch"🤣
I think at one point it started to lean into the storm.
wow...we got 11 raindrops from this event here in kansas city
I heard 12
@@nothingtoxic1879 , lol!
Great footage! That was some scary WIND!
Where have I been? Just heard about this through a remote link. You would think such an event would have been at the top of the feeds from TH-cam as well as other online services. I suppose they are just too busy fanning the flames of other issues.
There wasn't any media attention or outside help sent in until almost a full week later. Many are still without power almost 2 weeks later and hundreds of people are completely homeless now. 😔
@@k.kilburg9871 Mind boggling. Two states get flattened....entire crops destroyed and the media is mute. I tell ya.... they are beyond corrupt. They are inept to the point of the US being without news. God be with the victims of this disaster.
this isnt close to 130 mph wind
Edit: Still some pretty nutty rainfall rates but yeah the winds in this video are much lower than 130, but those gusts are nearing 100!
Being from the South, can someone explain to me the origins of the name "Derecho" and what climatic changes occur to make it happen? That is some scary video!
it means land hurricane. iowa is in the middle so we don’t have any like big bodies of water so👌🏻
Thousands of acres in Northern Minnesota. Like matchsticks! 1990’s
I was driving across iowa and we saw telephone poles snapped right in half like toothpicks on the ridges
Finally Iowa got some excitement
Need one of these in downtown Portland and Seattle for about a week
Literally moved from Cedar Rapids a little over a week before this happened. A friend took a videos of our old house, needless to say I’m glad we were not there. Thinking of y’all
Was it very damaged? I can imagine how sad it might feel seeing what it did to your old place.
Chaeley thankfully it wasnt badly damaged compared to most places. All of our vehicles would have been totaled though because of where the uprooted trees were. It was not only in front of our old home but all along the street. I feel for our neighbors. Couldn’t really tell just how bad it was because our friend couldn’t get through some of the debris blocking the roadway
@@ajcaro4468 - Absolutely crazy how life works out sometimes. Glad you all got out okay.
This storm scared me, tbh. We're lucky to have minor damage to our property, the worst part of the dercho is that we didn't have power for at least 5 days. I rember coming outside straight after the derecho, and it looked like hell.
I can see why thousands of acres, of corn, were destroyed.
4-10 MILLION acres I’ve heard estimated
Rip I went through this a few days ago where I am
TIL A derecho will make you appreciate a good old fashioned tornado. That’s from the heart of Dixie Alley.
I wonder how Fairfield Iowa was affected by this storm? I've lived in Fairfield for one to two years on three different occasions, also Iowa City.
This,
This isn't the best example of chilling in cedar rapids
Wow
Wow!