Derecho & Damage At Elmhurst (Raw Clips)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ส.ค. 2020
- I only cut out the spots where the window fogged up.....
This starts out by railroad tracks at the Myrtle Avenue grade crossing (where the lumber yard used to be). I was there for the storm sirens and the first gusts of wind and then the rain. The beginning shows the sky to the west, and as time moves on, the storm moved in. I drove around town and recorded from the dash of the car and I stopped in several places. From my point of view, damage seemed to be mostly south of downtown and north of Madison. The neighborhoods along the Illinois Prairie Path got really shredded. The area surrounding the old Chicago Great Western Railroad Station at The Prairie Path, looked as if a tornado went through!
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When a severe thunderstorm warning gets issued and the sirens start going off. That’s when you know a historical event is taking place as you are watching it
Yes! Both surreal and sublime!
@@ipfeldspar it's funny, it seems from the comments that you typically are a railfan. Im glad I found you cause two of my favorite hobbies are railfanning and storm chasing. Also from the Chicago metro. Originally grew up in dupage but live in the city now.
Driving in the rain. Must have been in the wrong side of town when it hit. You missed all the action of the storm....
I was between the two area cells. A small tornado blew east northeast across Lombard and then died down as it continued through north Elmhurst and Bensenville. To the south of me, the storm made hash out of the neighborhoods along the Prairie Path east of York. (Far south Elmhurst seemed untouched compared to the rest of town).
Spent every summer from birth to 2016 there. I'm suprised they have the infamous yellow fire trucks operational. They were phasing them out when I left. My grandparents lived there from 1970-2016 and I lived there before we moved to Rochelle when I was 1 year old in 2003. They always said the storms will usually stay south of valette or pull north of north Ave. That zone in-between usually stayed out of the worst.
I am sorry about any damage or injuries caused by this but, why spend the first 33 mins driving around in a light shower showing the layout of the place. I just didn't get it.
I did the video for the locals in town. I know a lot of Seniors who are unable to get out but they still want to know what has happened like when the big storms come through. They were really interested in the damage by the old Depot. thank-You for viewing and commenting!
I havent been in this area in about 15 years. I love seeing it,just hate knowing what's about to happen.
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@Jake Salvador Yup, I have been using InstaFlixxer for since november myself =)
Thank-You for viewing! I have been in Elmhurst for over fifty years and the town is always having something being torn down and rebuilt. Fortunately, this storm did most of its damage to the trees.
Your video states a derecho and damage, there was no derecho at all, it had already passed. btw how about telling us where you are, and keep us abreast of what you are doing...just going around in circles!
Sorry about that. I made the video for my senior friends who can't get out but who have lived here all theirs lives. I've been here for many decades and I get tunnel vision when driving around town, most of the time I don't even think of street names as I drive. Additionally, I'm a old school Historian who prefers not to interject into the audiences view. As to the storm. At fourteen minutes the trees are shaking pretty good! Are you watching on a phone? I view and edit on a wide screen and the cloud formations and tree shaking show up much better. Thank-You for viewing and commenting!
What town is this
Elmhurst Illinois. A Chicago Suburb fifteen miles due west of the Loop.
I live near this area and I remember this day
It really ripped up the neighborhood near the Prairie Path. Thank-You for viewing and commenting!
Love that gold fire truck.
In my time, Elmhurst went from red trucks to yellow and is now almost done going back to red. Red & yellow are just fine, but I might have a problem with that really weird day-glo green........
This is nothing more than a severe thunderstorm!!🙄
For most of town, yes, but several neighborhoods saw a huge amount of damage to homes, business, and something like a thousand trees. We were very lucky that our historic railroad depot did not get blown over. Thank-You for viewing and commenting!!!
21 minutes in to video…..rain… pretty tame storm
The damage clips are toward the end. Mostly downed trees with some damage to homes and cars.
I was on storm chasing duty near bensenville that day
Did you get under the small tornado that went through the north end of Lombard and Villa Park?
@@ipfeldspar no I only did the bensenville and northern elmhurst area
Driving in circles? How many times do we need to pass the School of Rock? Most chasers do a damage assessment AFTER THE STORM!
Hi! I'm not a storm chaser. I'm a Historian with over sixty years of residency in Elmhurst. Video was never meant to compare with anyone's chase, but I did try to catch the storm, as well as the damage, so that the the shut-ins (my senior friends) could see what happened in town. Thank-You for viewing and commenting....!
At 25:10 it's a little rainy and breezy.
The storm had its moments. The really bad stuff went north of town, but some of the winds just devastated a neighborhood! Thank-You for viewing and commenting...!!!
Note to self never move to Iowa at all.
Very bad there!
we thank Irving 4 what he dose best
Thank-You! However, I need to confess that I stopped long enough to get a train video while the storm was going through.....
The street that I live on I think got hit the hardest
Which street?
@@ipfeldspar elm ave
I remember this day ! We didn’t have much warning but I was driving from ogle to Rockford when i ran into the storm!! Never will forget that day. I hace dashcam footage also on my channel, check it out if you want to !!
That is an excellent video and I have subbed you. Thank-you for viewing and commenting!
@@ipfeldspar thank you my good sir !! Have a great thanksgiving!!!
Want to clear the streets real fast? Sound the tornado siren. 😏
That is very true but there is another side of that coin. Sound the sirens and the camera people come swarming out of their holes....! Thank-You for viewing and commenting!!!
My uncle work at the coffee shop at the train station
They lose power? I'll bet they did unless they are on some sort of secret railroad power....?
He had power the whole time from railroad
Nice looking community
Elmhurst is fairly well off and we now have the advantage of being almost the center of the Metro area. People buy houses based upon amenities and commutes, and we have it all except for modesty).
What a waste of time compared to Cedar Rapids damage.
That's why you took the time to leave a comment? Where is any claim, in this video, that the damage is superior to any other storm? This is about a storm that hit Elmhurst Illinois. The first fifteen minutes are in real time and one can discern the front moving through. The tail end of the video shows the knocked down trees, and damaged property in the heart of town. For a video that shows a local event, it is quite good. But if you get off on death and destruction, this is not the place to be. In any case, thank-you for viewing and commenting.
This video should be titled "Driving in rain...trees down"
I'm still kind of surprised at how easy it was to get around. I guess that living here for almost six decades has given me a giant list of short cuts?
Sarah: Some areas got hit an order of magnitude harder. In portage park the power was out for days and trees blocked streets for over 24 hours. I think about 10-20 percent of homes were damaged by the winds and debris. Tons of hail damage too and a few local tornadoes. Derecho strom's are no joke. Trust me, you be shitting your self had you been walking around during the storm that day. It was wild. Weren't no drizzle.
So basically it's just watching you drive around in the rain🙄
It's more fun to watch when all the really old guys are in the room. They'll reference places that have been gone for fifty years. However, when they saw the damage, they were pretty horrified. One of these guys used to live a block from that corner. The driving is nothing more than a tour, but is does allow for a sense of things in real time.
Power lines. 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
I think were without power for a week. A good friend had no storm damage around the house, but a few doors down, a tree took out a electric pole that had a important transformer. The friend had no power for a few days. The emergency responders tried to cover as much area as they could, but sometimes that meant they could only mark the downed line and hope that no one one goes out for bar-b-que. Thank-You for viewing and Commenting...!!!
TF are you doing, driving back and forth, starting and stopping, speeding down a 25? What is this??? I'm sitting it out but Idk why. Could've left out the first 13 minutes. Couldn't detect the velocity with the vehicle moving. Next time, stay still.
It was made for a specific group of Elmhurst oldtimers who are housebound. They like all the extra content. Also, I prefer to do extended videos that allow the audience to watch with their own eyes and interpret witout a narrators voice intruding. The first ten minutes gets the warning sirens and a number of cloud variations. At minute 11:00 we start to get the wind and by minute fifteen most of the storm has passed over. Those first few passes around the downtown happened as I wanted to pull out and shoot the entire sky, My widescreen shows quite a bit of the clouds as they move over town. Also, the storm split just before getting to Elmhurst (or maybe two different cells) one storm went north and the other cut across the middle of town. Thank-You for viewing and commenting!
everybody in chicagoland was out watching this, nobody actually takes shelter during these
Where this video begins, is next to one of the best underground shelters you can find1 Too bad the reservoir is filled with water. At least I could sneak into the access shack for shelter....
way to scare the hell outta folks with the siren and no rotation was near there least i didnt hear about any
Sirens can go off for winds 70+ mph and 2”+ hail, not just tornado warnings. They’re called “OUTDOOR WARNING” sirens for a reason, not tornado sirens.
There was a minor tornado that started over Downtown Lombard and then started to go west, northwest. It tore up a lot of trees around the neighborhood where the old CGW used to cross the CNW. That storm went up towards Bensenville, where it died. A different part of the storm slammed mid-Elmhurst near York and the Prairie Path. Oh, I never call them storm or tornado warnings. I always say the "air raid sirens" If folks don't like that, then they can go duck and cover.
Severe thunderstorm warnings can be another reason to sound the sirens. Would prefer they had not and then let everyone get caught outside unaware, just so long as they're not scared?
This is the most ridiculous video ever posted to TH-cam. SAY SOMETHING!!! Don't pace back and forth with your car, without telling us why. Do you have dementia?
I did not create this video for you. I created it for a bunch of Elmhurst Seniors who cannot get out much. Some of those Seniors have Dementia and while they are unable to drive but they do enjoy going along for the ride.
Why drive around in circles for an hour? Stupid is as stupid does
Why? $$$