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.
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 😊