Iowa storms.
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Topic: Iowa storms.
Posted By: mdm1
Subject: Iowa storms.
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 6:14pm
I know there are folks on here from Iowa. My daughter and her family live in Pleasant Hill. They had 75+ mph winds in their area. Lost a bunch of shingles off of their house, trees down, power out but everyone is save. We were just there this weekend. Hope everyone is O.K.
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Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 7:09pm
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Yeah seen pics on FB of corn fields layed flat, grain bins mangled, trucks truned over by wind - no matter what kind of technology we have now a days Mother Nature will show up and humble us
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 7:43pm
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She does have a nasty side she shows often enough.
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 8:22pm
Got hit really bad up at the farm on Sat**day evening. Power out. A beautiful Sugar Maple I've been doctoring for about 20 some years got split about 8 feet off the ground. Was a beauty of a shade tree. The grandkids all played under it. Lots of other ones are gonna be firewood too. Got 2.13" of rain in about 20 minutes. It was probably more than that, but it was flyin sideways so it didn't go into the gauge. DANDY storm!
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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 9:13pm
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We had to go to Perry Iowa this morning. Picked up a load in the pickup and headed back south. It was raining and blowing so hard you could just see 3 of the white stripes in the center of the pavement. We came thru Adel, big trees down everywhere. Power lines crossed up, down etc. Side streets were closed. Corn laying flat on the ground. Seemed most of the damage was just north of I80. We got under I80 at Desoto and the tree damage was almost non existent. North of I80 it poured down rain. At home we had wind but just 1/4 " of rain. Sweet corn just tasseled out good is laying flat. I worked the farmers market in Creston tonight. It was a beautiful afternoon to do a market. Just a few sticks in the park.
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 9:37pm
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Hammered hard near Cedar Rapids. Wind break is toast. We had nice shade trees. Not much left. Neighbors all around lost buildings, bins, and contents inside. I consider myself lucky to have only some shingles, two broken windows and minor damage to siding on two sheds. Although I am kinda bummed the new wagon I got last year is upside down. Power may be out several days.
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Posted By: VAfarmboy
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2020 at 10:35pm
I was just watching the 11:00 news here in Virginia and they mentioned those storms out in the midwest. Said it was a derecho.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 12:41am
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that was the same storm that passed over me here, brief real heavy rain for about 4-5 minutes, some wind, just a few small branches down, did hafta go retrieve our lawn chair cushons outta the ditch, seems it really picked up steam after passing us here. glad everyone is o-k
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Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 5:29am
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Yikes thanks for the warning. Coming our way I guess? Will try to hatten down the batches! Regards, Chris
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 6:51am
Derecho definition:
Sustained winds of at least 58mph and damage path 250-400 miles. Winds here clocked 90 and went on for some 45 minutes. Similar to hurricane
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 6:54am
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Have had a couple toad strangling with high wind storms here but no way as near as bad as IA. Lost a few Walnut limbs last few days, neighbor had lightning strike took out well pump, but still not as bad as north.
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 1:54pm
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They are showing it drying up and splitting here in Ohio and most going south of us here in north central Ohio. No rain here till the weekend, the way they keep changing it it we won't get any rain
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2020 at 2:43pm
Just got power back couple of hours ago! Longest I've ever been out, have pics I'll post when I get caught up little. Man was it ugly! Pretty sure my corn is a total loss, probably have to disc it under.
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:26pm
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Power back on for us today as well. Lots of people in town still in the dark. Will be working overtime as my department is going house to house to assess building damage for FEMA reports.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2020 at 12:25am
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news says damaged crops covered 10,000,000 acres in IA. thats 15,625 sections at 640 acres per. wonder if the prices will go up now? prolly not, some schmuck behind a desk in chitago will say they have a bumper crop!
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