It was a lot bigger than cedar rapids, we got hit out here in Scott county pretty hard too. I spoke to my parents back east last Wednesday when there was still no power and they had no idea it had happened. So grateful that the president came so people know what happened.
Yeah Marion (which is basically right by northeast Cedar Rapids) got hit really bad as well. My grandma down in Iowa City was out for a few days as well, with plenty of trees and knocked down power lines down there. Cedar Rapids/Marion definitely had it worst though. You can't go a single block in my area without seeing at least 3-5 big trees down, minimum.
Yeah, every block seemed to have power lines down. It was just a complete mess. Not only that, several historic buildings had their roofs either partially or entirely ripped off. The first few days of the storm was just complete confusion as nobody had cell service, everyone's workplaces was out of power, and nobody could buy gas.
Even in the midwest people have no idea how bad this is. My family in Kansas had no idea until I sent pics. I moved this week from Davenport to north of CR so I have driven down 380 about 8 times.
My Davenport house still has no power. The movers packed and loaded the house in the heat. I am very lucky both places only have minor tree damage. My neighbors are in much worse shape. The best description for Cedar Rapids damage is imagine a tornado 40 miles wide.
Basically several counties/cities got hit by what was basically a hurricane in central eastern Iowa. I woke up when the power knocked out, and that wasn't even when it was at its worst. The thing in my area lasted at least 30 minutes or so and during that period a big tree fell down and hit (but thankfully didn't destroy) the back part of our house's roof, and at one point there was such a powerful gust of wind that I felt the house move and a rush of wind blow down the stairway I was at the bottom of.
A lot of folks were without power for 3 days minimum, some are still without power over a week later. I'm very fortunate that my house wasn't hurt too bad but there were/still are power lines and trees down all over the place around here and some houses did get their roofs/upper sections knocked off or heavily damaged. For a few days stuff like gas was hard to come by because there were only a few gas stations open and some even ran out of gas. Grocery stores will probably be hit hard too for awhile (again) due to a vast majority of folks having to throw out fridge/freezer items and restock. Trying to drive around suburb areas is still a challenge because there's still so many trees down and stuff being worked on, so some roads are still straight up closed.
A friend of mine that I am in contact with primarily by text, lost power for 6 days and I had NO IDEA until he finally managed to charge his phone and send me a message.
Yeah it was basically hurricane tier winds on a massively wide-area scale which hasn't been seen here in at least a few decades if not longer. Was definitely an experience to wake up to and witness, lol...
Everywhere between like some ways north of Cedar Rapids/Marion and around Iowa City had power outages and trees down. On I-380 several Semi-Trucks had been knocked over sideways or worse due to the winds. Going down a back highway between the cities you basically could see trees down or cornfields bent heavily.
Cedar Rapids as a whole was the hardest hit since it's our second biggest city in the state, but you can't go anywhere without seeing some debris, fallen trees, or fallen poles nearby.
I'm from Dubuque and my family still lives there and I had no idea the extent of the damage until I saw some posts from people I went to school with (U Iowa) who are from Cedar Rapids. What an absolute disaster. Between this and the floods of '08 the Corridor has been through a lot in a short time.
Major Derecho. 40 miles wide by over 200 miles long winds at/over 100mph. Flattened corn in fields and took out power and grain bins and buildings. Basically a hurricane on land with straight line winds sustained for 15 minutes. You can see massive swaths of corn flattened on google earth.
I was just on the North end of that storm last week here in southern Black Hawk County. We got lucky up here and it still took 8 days to clean all the trees up. Cell service was down for 2 days along with internet. 10-15 miles South of me I think power is still out.
112mph winds and next to no media coverage of Iowa. Typical.
Public: "Why is the president at a disaster relief meeting for iowa? Why does Iowa need disaster relief?" Media: "Yeah, about that..."
The MSM did NO coverage of the disaster in Cedar Rapids, those fucking pigs.
It was a lot bigger than cedar rapids, we got hit out here in Scott county pretty hard too. I spoke to my parents back east last Wednesday when there was still no power and they had no idea it had happened. So grateful that the president came so people know what happened.
Yeah Marion (which is basically right by northeast Cedar Rapids) got hit really bad as well. My grandma down in Iowa City was out for a few days as well, with plenty of trees and knocked down power lines down there. Cedar Rapids/Marion definitely had it worst though. You can't go a single block in my area without seeing at least 3-5 big trees down, minimum.
Yeah, every block seemed to have power lines down. It was just a complete mess. Not only that, several historic buildings had their roofs either partially or entirely ripped off. The first few days of the storm was just complete confusion as nobody had cell service, everyone's workplaces was out of power, and nobody could buy gas.
I have family in Dubuque and their cell and internet service was knocked out or spotty for a couple days.
Even in the midwest people have no idea how bad this is. My family in Kansas had no idea until I sent pics. I moved this week from Davenport to north of CR so I have driven down 380 about 8 times.
My Davenport house still has no power. The movers packed and loaded the house in the heat. I am very lucky both places only have minor tree damage. My neighbors are in much worse shape. The best description for Cedar Rapids damage is imagine a tornado 40 miles wide.
It was basically a midwestern hurricane, and sure as hell looked like one too when it went through with how windy/rainy it was.
Here's a link to several pictures I took right after the storm: https://imgur.com/gallery/hkQ5sla
That's only a small sampling as we walked around, but it was like this for miles.
Basically several counties/cities got hit by what was basically a hurricane in central eastern Iowa. I woke up when the power knocked out, and that wasn't even when it was at its worst. The thing in my area lasted at least 30 minutes or so and during that period a big tree fell down and hit (but thankfully didn't destroy) the back part of our house's roof, and at one point there was such a powerful gust of wind that I felt the house move and a rush of wind blow down the stairway I was at the bottom of.
A lot of folks were without power for 3 days minimum, some are still without power over a week later. I'm very fortunate that my house wasn't hurt too bad but there were/still are power lines and trees down all over the place around here and some houses did get their roofs/upper sections knocked off or heavily damaged. For a few days stuff like gas was hard to come by because there were only a few gas stations open and some even ran out of gas. Grocery stores will probably be hit hard too for awhile (again) due to a vast majority of folks having to throw out fridge/freezer items and restock. Trying to drive around suburb areas is still a challenge because there's still so many trees down and stuff being worked on, so some roads are still straight up closed.
A friend of mine that I am in contact with primarily by text, lost power for 6 days and I had NO IDEA until he finally managed to charge his phone and send me a message.
The media is complicit!
The MSM doesn't care about American Farmers.
Trump is doing stuff every day and Biden is hiding in his basement. Yet, the polls show Biden ahead? I don't buy it. GEOTUS is superhuman.
Exactly!!!!!!!
Biden hidin, Michael O pre-recording speeches weeks in advance, someone recording a statement at christmas?
Why-why-why-why-why-why-why! You're getting nervous man!
they gotta fire the stream guy. it's like 144p
or at least the sound guy - i can deal with shit visual as long as the audio is ok
THey definitely need to fix that. I just tried that on Youtube and it didn't work.
GEOTUS always cracking jokes and never failing to read the room and get laughs from the room. I love this man
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It just stopped (feed).
Glad Trump is getting on top of this he needs Iowa voters. Its really bad up there the damage
What happened? Storm?
Thank you . Wow that’s terrible
Yeah it was basically hurricane tier winds on a massively wide-area scale which hasn't been seen here in at least a few decades if not longer. Was definitely an experience to wake up to and witness, lol...
Everywhere between like some ways north of Cedar Rapids/Marion and around Iowa City had power outages and trees down. On I-380 several Semi-Trucks had been knocked over sideways or worse due to the winds. Going down a back highway between the cities you basically could see trees down or cornfields bent heavily.
Here's an image of all it covered.
Cedar Rapids as a whole was the hardest hit since it's our second biggest city in the state, but you can't go anywhere without seeing some debris, fallen trees, or fallen poles nearby.
I'm from Dubuque and my family still lives there and I had no idea the extent of the damage until I saw some posts from people I went to school with (U Iowa) who are from Cedar Rapids. What an absolute disaster. Between this and the floods of '08 the Corridor has been through a lot in a short time.
Major Derecho. 40 miles wide by over 200 miles long winds at/over 100mph. Flattened corn in fields and took out power and grain bins and buildings. Basically a hurricane on land with straight line winds sustained for 15 minutes. You can see massive swaths of corn flattened on google earth.
Thanks 😊
Another win for our GEOTUS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOe7RQ1F_qg BACKUP
Live stream back up here, but I think we missed a lot of it.
yeah, it's over now. wish we could hear what was missed.
Okay, what happened? The Live stream went dead sort of.
Livestream resuming shortly? Or no?
AND WE ARE BACK
& it's gone. :[
Love for our Midwest Brothers and Sisters - a Derecho is a dangerous beast of a storm.
Here’s 2 random twitter links showing some damage pics but its widespread.
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Alida Honey pot @honeynoir WOW! The storm moving through our area now crumpled these grain bins in Iowa about an hour ago.
https://mobile.twitter.com/honeynoir/status/1292912389399228417
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Iowa Storm Chasing Network @IAStormChasing Woah! This is not a good sight to see. South of Scranton, Iowa the fields are flattened.
https://mobile.twitter.com/IAStormChasing/status/1292971826461716480
was live on weather channel for a while. redpill the old people that are getting bombarded with climate hysteria daily
again?? nvm, back on now
I was just on the North end of that storm last week here in southern Black Hawk County. We got lucky up here and it still took 8 days to clean all the trees up. Cell service was down for 2 days along with internet. 10-15 miles South of me I think power is still out.
112mph winds and next to no media coverage of Iowa. Typical.
The Dems had a disaster recovery briefing too after the first night of the DNC