I’ll never get over how ominous those air raid sirens are. Especially when you hear them in person.
@kitiowa
4 жыл бұрын
they didn't sound ominous that day to me in person. Let me tell you after the fact hearing them here is a whole other sensation.
@whimpy_ghost
4 жыл бұрын
I was getting ready for football practice when the sirens went off, me and my teammates didn’t think much of the sirens until the wind and rain picked up. We had to get inside the school and wait in a dark gym for an hour listening to the deafening roar of the storm. By the time it was over and we walked outside it looked like the city had been nuked
@kitiowa
4 жыл бұрын
@Evan St.Clair In this instance they were Derecho sirens.
@MeriLizzie
4 жыл бұрын
Evan St.Clair The sirens can go off for a many reasons. Tornado’s, high winds, rising flood waters. They’re just supposed to tell you “hey! Something important! Check the news! The sky! Etc.!”
@TheCustomEverythingChannel
4 жыл бұрын
@Evan St.Clair yea air raid ones sound a whole lot different
@bluetoad6848
4 жыл бұрын
This video goes a great job showing off how sporadic, and overall chaotic the wind patterns are in a Derecho, if you can even call this a pattern. Notice how the winds are almost constantly shifting and changing, both in speed and directions. Lots of strong gusty winds, sudden shifts in direction, and sudden drop in wind speed, creating a very brief period of calmness, before quickly ramping back up again. Then there are the sudden huge surges of winds they comes out of seemingly nowhere. You can also see the large spatial variances in the winds as well. These chaotic winds are pretty much unique to a derecho.
@purplegurl79
Жыл бұрын
Yes!! I didn’t think it would end!!
@Mako2-1
4 жыл бұрын
This is why television will never catch up to youtube
@scotabot7826
4 жыл бұрын
Well, as we all know now, TV is nothing but purpose planned propaganda!!!! They are trying their best to herd the sheep, but thankfully, even the sheep are starting to wise up and catch on to the out right lies!!!!!!!
@leeallen3202
4 жыл бұрын
@@scotabot7826 😁👊👍
@rdizzy1
4 жыл бұрын
@@scotabot7826 You think many youtube videos aren't "purposely planned propaganda" as well? LOL
@SethBergile
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah you definitely don't get do here a guy whisper to himself while he films his storm ravaged neighborhood on any TV channel.
@fredthompson4568
3 жыл бұрын
TV is DEAD. Just mine away.
@juliamihajlovich
3 жыл бұрын
The thing is, these cameras make it so much brighter out than it really was. It was actually black and dark navy to the west. You heard the roar and it was insane! I have never heard my heartbeat pounding in my ear as loud as it did when I was speeding to get home with my baby to safety. Absolutely the scariest weather experience of my life.
@nicolepalmer9795
4 жыл бұрын
I’m in Cedar Rapids, and this was by far the scariest storm I’ve ever experienced. Amazing footage, I was hiding in a bathroom instead of watching, haha
@RickOshay...
4 жыл бұрын
In a bathroom?... Um... It wouldn't be at a Starbucks by chance now would it? I was in a men's room and i knew there was a girl in the ladies room... Maybe it was you...No? Just kidding...
@JohnKennedy-zi5oi
4 жыл бұрын
That's because you were smart I like this guy he should have been hiding to
@Hummingbird-yu3kt
4 жыл бұрын
I was downstairs cowering with my furbabies. My husband had called me to make sure I heard the sirens and sought shelter. I was sleeping so I was glad he did!
@sjklahn
4 жыл бұрын
He's single. He has his reasons. Lol.
@mildridj3423
4 жыл бұрын
Str8 Line wind I can deal with, I get fidgety when it 'rotates'.
@juanjosedelpinorivas7099
4 жыл бұрын
It's mind blowing how the weather changes dramatically. There was no wind at all before the storm and then hell starts to happen.
@kathleenp4689
4 жыл бұрын
Weathermen told us to expect ~15min of 100+ mph winds... and then we proceeded to get *steamrolled* for nearly an *hour*. On the coasts, you'd usually have a least a week's heads up for a Category 3 hurricane... we had about 40min
@murodjonturgunov811
3 жыл бұрын
Ниххуя
@scotthayes5933
3 жыл бұрын
As the storm is approaching it looks like a scene from "The Neverending Story". The scene when the Rock Biter sees the nothing coming.
@dianefarley37
3 жыл бұрын
@@scotthayes5933 I love that movie. Such memories!!!
@andrewfrank7222
3 жыл бұрын
I thought hell was fire not wind and rain....
@whytepohnee1
4 жыл бұрын
I straight up sat and watched this all the way through with my headphones on hearing that wind roar and feeling like I was in it. Thanks for the experience!
@bigmona2741
4 жыл бұрын
I had it on speaker, read your comment and got my Airpods
@haxlive6424
4 жыл бұрын
I was in it, definitely a interesting experience
@suziebayless80
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your video. I have heard of derechos but you showed me the alarming experience itself. A thunderstorm dialed up to 20! So glad you came through it safe...
@CarnivoreStork
4 жыл бұрын
Being in Minnesota and having my TV unplugged for 5 years, I some how missed the whole thing you guys were going through till 5 days later. I am on the Internet, Twitter & youtube but did not see anything till later. I appreciate your report on this and taking us through it, I too live in a house with no basement. 👀 I’m thankful it left your homes on the foundations. It was close.
@pikehunter23750
4 жыл бұрын
Same here, but unplugged for the past 14 years. I have a old friend of mine in Lisbon and I didn't hear anything about this until days later. They had no power or cell service for days. Quite the ride they had down there that's for sure!!
@louisaruth
4 жыл бұрын
well, this video sums up 2020: and then I went to work...
@Tenticklez
4 жыл бұрын
Another for Apocalypse Bingo.
@mm-gl7sz
4 жыл бұрын
That's why Buffalo's Blizzard of 77 is so out of place in terms of when it happened. Also had high straight line winds with about 3 feet of snow blown in off the lake and over 12 hrs if zero visibility and well below 0 temperatures. The snow was blown into drifts that were like concrete because the winds were so high. While there have been ridiculously high snow total storms 2 times since then, none had the intensity or killed the number of people that the blizzard of 77 did. That seems more like it should have happened this year the way things are going. But if you look back on it that winter and that storm may have been the beginning of all this craziness especially with the weather since then.
@louisaruth
4 жыл бұрын
@@mm-gl7sz i agree with your assessment. I am no expert, but don't need to be. it is becoming self evident that climate change has been slow in coming, but it is very real.
@seatosea6184
4 жыл бұрын
This isnt climate change. Its called living in the midwest.
@louisaruth
4 жыл бұрын
@@seatosea6184 i grew up in the midwest; you can't fool me.
@aircraftandmore9775
4 жыл бұрын
When you get a severe thunderstorm warning and the sirens start going off, you know s words getting real. And a historical event is occuring. Classic derecho moment
@dh190852
4 жыл бұрын
Sirens? There were Sirens? I didn't even hear them.
@garymaddux2000
4 жыл бұрын
Not if you live in Alabama lol. The sirens will go off but nothing happens most of the time. And the one time that my town got hit in 2011, the sirens never went off because the tornado came out of nowhere
@mm-gl7sz
4 жыл бұрын
@@garymaddux2000 I once lived in Tuscaloosa and the sirens never went off for anything but a tornado warning. We would have severe storms that were not tornadic but had high straight line winds in the summer and no sirens ever went off. And when rainbands from tropical storms came through with high winds no siren either unless the rainband spawned a tornado. This was in the 1970s when I went to Alabama. I don't know how they do it now. We also only had one warning siren in the whole town, the one on Graves Hall that the University doesn't use anymore. They installed a much louder P15 on Gorgas library which gets used now and Tuscaloosa now has a siren network which didn't exist in the 70s
@kylewalsh3347
4 жыл бұрын
I live in Rhode island lol and if i heard sirens going off i’d shit my pants no joke
@sierratrilogy
3 жыл бұрын
@@kylewalsh3347 I don't know if the ones in NC are for a nuclear accident or a tsunami warning...
@nayinayi1
4 жыл бұрын
The sirens going off like that in 2020 is what can give someone a heart attack....
@jonothandoeser
4 жыл бұрын
Are those air raid sirens?? Surely Iowa doesn't have a Hurricane siren system!
@mr.tornadoman2153
4 жыл бұрын
No the storm would
@TTThebookofsorrows
4 жыл бұрын
Just wait when the alien invasion happens here shortly the sirens will go off, dont be afraid but they are the ones you need to worry about dont worry your not alone the good ones are here with you, to protect you.
@JRacer524
4 жыл бұрын
Those sirens were loud.
@jonothandoeser
4 жыл бұрын
@Evan St.Clair Oh, I didn't realize that they got a lot of tornadoes in Idaho.
@etiennedauphin
4 жыл бұрын
Extremely good footage of an exceptional meteorological event. Thank you sir. Glad you’re okay.
@carolwagner9256
3 жыл бұрын
Gladyo
@squirrel3443
4 жыл бұрын
I’m a full time RVer and I went through this in TX, it was 80-90mph straight line winds hitting my RV on the side. I got out of my RV and ran to shelter, I didn’t have time to pull in my slides I HAD TO GO! I watched the wind sink my RV 5 inches on the opposite side... I couldn’t fix it till ground was dry.. long story short, this shit is scarier than anyone thinks...
@squirrel3443
4 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s crazy!
@tvold9204
4 жыл бұрын
Ur lucky u weren't in West Pine Key on 9/10/2017, with sustained winds of 130mph and gusts well over 165
@squirrel3443
4 жыл бұрын
Tvold I definitely wouldn’t be here today! Scary thought
@squirrel3443
3 жыл бұрын
Albeit Einschtien whaaat?
@tommyron
4 жыл бұрын
The energy really jumps when you go out your back door. Amazing coverage. Thank you!
@RafaelSantos-pp2ly
4 жыл бұрын
The cables are not underground?
@kevintucker3354
4 жыл бұрын
Sergey Brin No, not in the neighborhood in which this man lives.
@MeriLizzie
4 жыл бұрын
@Kevin Tucker and @Sergey Brin Not my area either. Our house was built in 1920, about the time when they started building them with electric installed (I think). All lines still above ground. They had to rewrite from the house to the pole for us.
@RafaelSantos-pp2ly
4 жыл бұрын
@@MeriLizzie all the Cities in Minnesota and North Dakota are burying the 138V cables. They need to do the same to Iowa and all the USA midwest.
@MeriLizzie
4 жыл бұрын
Sergey Brin Who foots the bill for that? Can already guarantee the power company will ask for a rate hike to cover the disaster.
@EthanBWeather
4 жыл бұрын
That's some awesome footage you got, sir!
@madmikemackas
2 жыл бұрын
Those sirens. Everyone is a tough guy till those start up. Chills. I have been through that. It’s beyond eerie and really gets the blood pressure going. This derecho is probably not gonna be topped in our lifetime. Epic.
@elizabethmunoz1377
4 жыл бұрын
I've never been so scared in my life, damn I was legit in bed I thought my ass was about to fly away like Dorothy
@staceylovebeauty724
5 ай бұрын
Sorry you had to go through that. I couldn't imagine that scary crap. I'm scared of storms and watch crap like this and tornado video's on KZitem. Don't make no sense. Hope you and everyone was all right and sorry again❤😊❤😊
@cboy-ou2hr
5 ай бұрын
There’s no place like home there’s no place like home 🌪️
@williamfricke4464
4 жыл бұрын
I live in Cedar Rapids SW side. This is a bad storm alright. We got the wind all of a sudden and in 5 minutes lot power. In our building, the wind was so bad it was pushing the glass in the frames out. Like you could see it move. Thankfully, the frames held for the storm. We used to have all these nice trees in town, but a lot of them are gone now. This will be a long recovery. Thanks for this video so I can show people what we went through.
@alabamared2568
4 жыл бұрын
Id like to commend you for your work on this event...i wish more would do there documentation like you did you stated before it came in most only show bits and pieces to me thats important i knew watching this that you was gonna loose power i work with the nws in the quad cites as im in Stephenson county il only 2 county's in northern Illinois are coverd by nws quad cites...you did an excellent job with this event..i seen just earlier that luther iowa had a gust of 117 mph!!!!
@erikjohnson2889
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the INCREDIBLE footage! I've been a storm junky and hobbyist meteorologist for almost 40 years, and this event was truly one for the ages. As for the KZitem comment section, it can be hell on earth, with enough sanctimony and Monday morning QBing for 100 lifetimes. I hope you won't let it bother you. Living in mom's basement can be frustrating for these idiots hahaha
@minnesota7010
3 жыл бұрын
Check out Reed Timmer on here👍
@KevinLyons-gn7eu
5 ай бұрын
Are you still a meteorologist?
@nostrathomas2437
4 жыл бұрын
You can officially call yourself an honorary Floridian now!
@editingreality4779
4 жыл бұрын
Not quite. You guys have many more days of warning people. A dericho is extremely dangerous because of this.
@CarlJohnson-rt7bc
4 жыл бұрын
@@editingreality4779 and far worse conditions. Looks like category 1 in this video for like 2 minutes.
@nataliespiker4656
3 жыл бұрын
@@CarlJohnson-rt7bc they said cat 4. Winds of 146 mph
@TdgtornadoFake
3 жыл бұрын
Somewhat, derechos produce hurricane force winds, but realistically you get days of warning, while in the Midwest, this happens at random points, that’s why there wasn’t any large scale news coverage
@houstontexas9463
3 жыл бұрын
And Houstonian! Lol we deal with 1-3 hurricanes, plus tropical storms every year. 😆 I think Louisiana won this year, they got slammed badly by hurricanes, it's rough down here in the gulf but too be honest I love to watch these hurricanes, I'm weird af 😆 mother nature is veryyyyy unforgiving and I love to watch.
@AprilMWoodard
4 жыл бұрын
I bet that was so stressful! I’m glad you’re okay. ❤️
@janiemiller280
4 жыл бұрын
I arrived in Cedar Rapids the day before the storm from Colorado to visit my Son and grandkids. What a crazy day/week!! We lived in Florida several years and this made me think of the hurricanes! We were in my Sons 3rd floor apartment and the building shook with quite a force. Lost power and all food in fridge. Thank you for sharing!
@aaronschilling1815
4 жыл бұрын
It's been a long time since I lived in CR, so much has changed that I barely recognized it. So thank you for driving around so I could get my bearings at the end. Between the 500 year flood in 08 and this, CR has taken a beating.
@lindaterrell5535
4 жыл бұрын
We drove into so,etching like this many years ago in Montana. When the big rigs started pulling off, we knew there was trouble coming.
@LTHanlon
4 жыл бұрын
And I thought it was bad in my Chicago highrise! Thanks for shooting & sharing!
@V109FM
4 жыл бұрын
Great job of reporting this storm. I'm so glad your home came out ok and prayers for everyone who had major damage and got hurt. I've seen hurricanes do less damage than this storm and this was terrible. We get a lot of these here in Florida so I understand what it like. Stay safe.
@joeycaridi3030
3 жыл бұрын
Derecho Stages 1. Begins in your area (5-50 mph winds and lasts for 5 minutes and 50 seconds or 350 seconds) Timestamp: 00:07:51 2. The winds get faster (50-100 mph winds and lasts for 6 minutes and 19 seconds or 379 seconds) Timestamp: 00:13:41 3. The winds reach peak intensity (100-150-100 mph winds and lasts for 16 minutes and 50 seconds or 1,010 seconds) Timestamp: 00:20:00 4. The winds get slower (100-50 mph winds and lasts for 10 minutes and 3 seconds or 603 seconds) Timestamp: 00:36:50 5. Ends in your area (50-5 mph winds) Timestamp: 00:46:53 Total Derecho storm time: 39 minutes and 2 seconds or 2,342 seconds All times of Derecho stages since start Time of stage 1: 5 minutes and 50 seconds or 350 seconds Time of stage 2: 12 minutes and 9 seconds or 729 seconds Time of stage 3: 28 minutes and 59 seconds or 1,739 seconds Time of stage 4: 39 minutes and 2 seconds or 2,342 seconds Time of peak winds since start: 20 minutes and 34 seconds or 1,234 seconds
@GalaxyRangerNiko
4 жыл бұрын
As a fellow midwesterner, I love when the storm sirens go off, we go out to watch the storm.
@hugstoyou7
4 жыл бұрын
That siren is scary in it's own right.
@tngardener231
4 жыл бұрын
I wish we had one here in our town. We seem to only get tornados at night and it’s pitch black here in he country so you can’t see them coming,but yes the sound is scary.. like every war movie or apocalypse movie lol
@aircraftandmore9775
4 жыл бұрын
Look up the silent hill siren, these are nothing compared to this
@kierstenpoole799
4 жыл бұрын
I hate the sound of tornado sirens
@TheGhostGuitars
4 жыл бұрын
@@aircraftandmore9775 At least ye don't have to worry about nightmares or undeads getting around. (Silent Hill or Siren)
@joer7327
4 жыл бұрын
Those sirens are a great thing. Yes it means shit is about to happen but that's why it's called an outdoor warning system
@kimberlyscabiniowa1199
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your video! May blessings come your way for doing so. I live in a mobile home and road it out inside. I thought my trailer was going to tip over. Never experienced anything like it in my 60 years of life. I was without power and phone service for four days, got it back late last night. Here in Cedar Rapids the devastation is terrible. It will take a long time to clean up from this one. We are all suffering and hurting here and through out Iowa. Please send help and aid where possible. We give to the country when others are in need, its unfortunately our turn for help.
@robertstewart1223
3 жыл бұрын
Dude....Im a weather freak. I study it as a hobby so I spend my downtime flipping through KZitem for tornado coverage or storm chases. This has to be the coolest video in a long while! Of course we heard about the Derechio in MI but we've never had one...our storms can be very nasty but they rain themselves out fairly quickly. Thanks for this!
@sheilahyatt8606
4 жыл бұрын
"Dying down" and "gusting to 70" together in the same sentence cannot be good. Bless your hearts.
@Sagicorn24
4 жыл бұрын
One of the worst storms to hit a part of America and definitely NOT enough coverage. My husband and I have been watching the videos and just feeling sick.
@alewiina
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely not enough coverage, I didn't even hear about this until today when someone's video showed up in my youtube recommendations :O
@WardenOfSouls
4 жыл бұрын
@@alewiina same, im from europe but still we usually get severe weather events like this in the news over here. Didn't hear a thing about this
@Rxanne28
4 жыл бұрын
Same. I have never heard of a Derecho storm until yesterday. I saw someone's recording of this storm on the same day. Horrific but incredible. I live in the South so this is how a Hurricane is down here but this isn't a hurricane. Wow. GOD Bless those in Cedar Rapids.
@hollywarehouse7938
4 жыл бұрын
@Daniel L. - you’re very kind and RIGHT! Stay safe, thank you 🙏🏽
@hollywarehouse7938
4 жыл бұрын
Amanda- IKR!!! ❣️thank you!
@rhondafoster6122
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, I live in Tuscaloosa Al..., James Spann country❤️, and I watched your video all the way through with my heart pounding bc it reminds me of the times a tornado has been very very close to my house.....same sounds. Great video....of course wanted to bop you for holding the back door open with that sheet metal from the shed flipping around .......God bless, so glad you're okay!
@lurchie
4 жыл бұрын
I remember being in IA as a kid visiting relatives and they were either testing the sirens, or they set them off at the noon hour, I don't remember which. Regardless of the reason, I had to go home and change my shorts. Much later, as a teenager, I lived in HI and was traumatized by the very similar sounding tsunami warning sirens. Needless to say, that sound elicits a deep seated fear response in me.
@arodenburg1570
4 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but that is so funny to me lol! These sirens have always meant 'tornado' to me as a young iowan, but when I moved to PA and they had the same sirens that would go off, the first time it happened we were driving and I started flipping out and telling my dad to pull over into a parking lot because I thought a tornado had touched down....on the mountain side....? Anyways...I felt that.
@browniedriver
4 жыл бұрын
I remember growing up in San Antonio during the cold war and they would sound the sirens periodically to test them in preparation for being bombed by the USSR. Always scared me. Still does.
@charlottecunningham2141
4 жыл бұрын
browniedriver 😣
@rubywine2430
3 жыл бұрын
I think the creepiest part of any incoming storm is when the tornado sirens stop. Because that means it's here.
@Shortking._.
2 жыл бұрын
*you know its serious when the air raid sirens are on just for a storm*
@waynegoin5534
Жыл бұрын
the sirens were on due to radar indicated rotation. before the storm not as a warning for the derecho.
@obijuan3004
4 жыл бұрын
2020, it can’t get any worse... wait the west coast is on fire and two hurricanes are in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time. Crazy Year.
@amielawson8344
4 жыл бұрын
Obi Juan Don’t day that! You’ll jinx us all! 😂😂😂
@obijuan3004
4 жыл бұрын
Amie Lawson it’s just a crazy year. It’s has rained everyday since August 1st. We were hit by tropical storm Isaias then tropical storm Kent formed right over our heads. I was happy that Laura was going to miss us but it’s going into the gulf then come right back to us. Those poor people in Iowa got a land bound hurricane, and California is burning in the rain. What next a pandemic? Oh wait.
@nadineduick6353
4 жыл бұрын
God is mad!? Sure seems like it dot-dot. If you don't believe in Revelations I don't know how this could be any more clear!
@mustangflyer4155
4 жыл бұрын
Better say our prayers now
@dollarsignhtotheo2dubbs579
4 жыл бұрын
@@nadineduick6353 Is it really revelations or are there intelligent forces behind it, controlling it, revealing the "revelations" as you say?
@bcask61
4 жыл бұрын
The duration of this storm is just stunning. More than 30 minutes of nonstop 50+mph winds. Amazing
@helengraham6711
4 жыл бұрын
This was only a thirty minute storm?!
@KoId.
Жыл бұрын
@@helengraham6711 an hour
@hollywarehouse7938
4 жыл бұрын
I’m glad this dude is alive🙏🏽 major props for videoing the whole thing👌🏽 THIS TOWN GOT CRUSHED- Totally Destroyed!!! Look at other videos!
@f3arl3sscountdowns81
4 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s insane!! To hear that siren reminds me of the purge tho lol glad you’re ok!!
@tkelly1072
4 жыл бұрын
I’m in Reinbeck and I live on the top floor of a 2 apartment building. My fur baby and I sat it out while it hit. Tons of trees down in the lot next to me. It was so scary. Glad you were all okay.
@uglyratzzz1904
4 жыл бұрын
So glad you guys are okay!
@tkelly1072
4 жыл бұрын
spirals 73 so happy you did find shelter. I’d probably go downstairs to my neighbors below me and hide in their bathroom. Lol!!
@KristianWontroba
4 жыл бұрын
"All we are is dust in the wind dude." - Ted Great footage!
@meo6822
5 ай бұрын
Honestly, I expected every guy to pop out of those homes to survey the sky and see if they can be a witness. Men are fascinating creatures, God bless their hearts.
@ApolloVR6
2 ай бұрын
I love this comment. And you're right, us guys- we love our severe weather. (Just not the aftermath)
@raininglands8434
4 жыл бұрын
It must be so eerie walking around before the storm, listening to those sirens
@progenitor_amborella
2 жыл бұрын
It’s a bit jarring, but really once the sirens go off that’s when most people tend to get everything very quickly tucked away and put inside. That umbrella out back? It’ll become a missile. Everything has to go in. They have a strange sound because you get this feeling that so many people get of “this isn’t supposed to happen to me, this happens to other people.” The sirens are extra eerie hearing them being tested after a storm…
@raininglands8434
2 жыл бұрын
@@progenitor_amborella I cant even imagine, we get fairly tame storms here in Norway (comparatively speaking). People still pack things away when storms are announced but you'll always find something on your lawn that isn't yours
@ohioexpax1592
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing that you could hear the wind before the wind hit.
@Sagicorn24
4 жыл бұрын
Just like my husband, talking to himself the whole time
@cky2k2012
4 жыл бұрын
Lol.. I was thinking the same thing. Or earlier I thought he might have been talking to someone on the phone.
@douglasskaalrud6865
4 жыл бұрын
It makes the video unwatchable.
@TheGhostGuitars
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, nonstop inane chatter.
@drfreud65
3 жыл бұрын
I was recording on Facebook live, and was talking to those who were watching....until I lost cell service.
@Sagicorn24
3 жыл бұрын
tdsm19 no disrespect 🙏
@MawMawsGirlz
Жыл бұрын
So happy you’re ok 🧎🏻♀️🙏🏻❤️ Thank you for sharing this! It was intense! I would’ve rather missed it though if I had to choose because I’d rather you be ok than for me to see any storm. Your life is important❤️
@glmike523
4 жыл бұрын
Looked familiar like a Hurricane. Just that Hurricanes last all day. You were lucky that those trees didn't come down and blow into your home. Lot of damage...good luck and stay safe.
@patricesage331
4 жыл бұрын
Yup. Derecho literally means 'land' hurricane. So so so glad it only lasted 50 minutes or so. But, also, with hurricanes, you guys get like a weeks notice. We got maybe 10 minutes. If you were at the store thats where you rode it out. Just glad we are all pretty much 👌 ok
@GayleRupert
4 жыл бұрын
Michael LoCascio I’ve been through many hurricanes and they don’t last all day, ever. The criteria for a storm to be called a Derecho is it has to last no less than six hours and leave a path of destruction for 250 miles. Those are just two things that make a Derecho. I believe this storm was 50 miles wide as well. Look it up, Derecho’s sound like something out of nightmares. I can’t believe they don’t get more press or names...like hurricanes and tornadoes. 2020 has already seen 8 of these storms, including this one.
3 жыл бұрын
Gayle Rupert I’ve been through many hurricanes as well and the shortest hurricane I have ever experienced was 4 hours. How about slow moving Sally last week? Gulf Shores had hurricane force winds for over 24 hours. They were in the eye wall for 3 solid hours!!! The eye wall!!! Yes ma’am. Hurricanes usually last for the most part of a day as in sunlight day. Usually not a 24 hour day but it can definitely happen. I live 35 miles from the Gulf Coast. Down here we prep for hurricane season in June or July and don’t return to normal until October.
@sierratrilogy
3 жыл бұрын
@ or Florence that hit NC a couple of years ago. People need to stop making incorrect generalizations like the lady you commented to.
@andreweddins6932
4 жыл бұрын
I’m always prepared for hurricanes but there’s no preparing for these surprise attacks... glad your house handled it 👍🏻
@NorthernChev
4 жыл бұрын
Well, if you're prepared for a hurricane, then you're certainly prepared for this. It's exactly the same except this is gone in 20 minutes.
@amarie3174
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and not 20 minutes. It was an hour long.
@UchihaSumairu
4 жыл бұрын
@Evan St.Clair Yeah hurricanes are by far more destructive overall (they generally spawn lots of strong tornados ignoring the much higher wind speeds than this) BUT I would bet tornados are more deadly as you just can't know they are coming until just a bit before. and with all the false alarms its easy to find yourself ignoring a tornado thinking it wont actually happen.
@Lucasthemann
4 жыл бұрын
@@NorthernChev uh.. No.. People get notified days before a hurricanes these storms at most well give you an hour
@NorthernChev
4 жыл бұрын
Evan St.Clair the physical characteristics of this storm, which is what we talking about, are, as many have stated over and over, very similar to a hurricane.
@drakewulser8976
4 жыл бұрын
The most persistent straight line winds I've ever seen. In a video or in person
@Krupnoklipac
4 жыл бұрын
welcome to the future
@jonothandoeser
4 жыл бұрын
Those with solar panels on their roofs will have it RIPPED off and totally destroyed!!!! At their own expense!
@drakewulser8976
4 жыл бұрын
@ I've been in plenty of them being in Missouri
@1105kross
3 жыл бұрын
I would have video tapped whatever I could too. No way I wasn’t going to not document a storm like this. Good job and glad you’re safe.
@richardduerr9983
4 жыл бұрын
Outstanding video, watched it beginning to end without pause or fast-forwarding! That was a freaking crazy scary storm (especially not having a basement), thanks for sharing your experience!!!
@tomtilden4611
4 жыл бұрын
Really good job filming this! Thank you.
@rhondamiddleton281
4 жыл бұрын
Great footage. Pray all is well with everyone in Iowa. 🙏🙏🙏
@travelexperiences2805
3 жыл бұрын
It was crazy and unreal and there was no real warning before the storm hit. Thanks for sharing.
@nimarus3118
3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a micro-burst we had several years ago. We had reports of a tornado touching down in the mountains of West Virginia, which is extremely unusual. My home is nestled in the valley of two hills (I joking refer to the location as being in the buttcrack of two hills). I remember stepping out onto my back porch and noticing that all the leaves where being blown upward. The wind picked up and even the tree branches looked like they were being pulled up. In the aftermath, there was a lot of destruction. We had those mailboxes in town actually get ripped out of the sidewalk. Massive trees over 100+ years old, outside the State Capital Building, got uprooted. We had a scanner and heard police calling in that a funnel cloud was forming nearby the highway. Keep in mind, we live in a very hilly area in the mountains. The mountains disrupt the wind enough to prevent tornadoes. It was surreal after the storm just passed. I remember walking outside in my back yard and actually saw animals appearing out of the treeline as if they were also checking the damage. Even a turtle walked by me.
@vOCesUGa1
4 жыл бұрын
of course it was trash day!!
@harleybabe-zx6hr
4 жыл бұрын
Sorry y'all went thru that wicked storm. I was visiting my Sister and family in New Lenox, Illinois when it went thru...it was terrible!! They had a big tree branch that went into the roof and in the kids room!! It was scary...just as bad as hurricane force winds!! I live on the East Coast of NC. Hurricanes last a lot longer than this, but thank God you are alright!!
@MrJking065
4 жыл бұрын
This was like a Hurricane eye wall. You basically had a hurricane hit.
@patricesage331
4 жыл бұрын
Yes. A category 2 upgrade to a category 3. Derecho literally means "land hurricane" 12 days later many still without power.
@patricesage331
4 жыл бұрын
Category 2 upgraded to a category 3. 'Land' Hurricane. 10 minutes notice. At most.
@miamidolphinsfan
4 жыл бұрын
a weak hurricane
@armyguy872008
4 жыл бұрын
However, a hurricane keeps on blowing for 6-8 hours. Sorry you guys had that devastating wind.
@lray4437
4 жыл бұрын
No comparison to a hurricane. Hurricanes last all day not a couple minutes.
@rebeccasmith4594
4 жыл бұрын
I was in a mobile home- I cannot tell you how many times I thought to myself "yep, this is it this is how I go out"
@TylerTyphoon
4 жыл бұрын
As someone who’s gone through a few hurricanes in a singlewide I totally feel you on that one!
@michellesmolek2904
4 жыл бұрын
Rebecca Smith yes us too in Hiawatha. 140 wind gusts. We sustained a lot,of damage..
@kathyharper7187
4 жыл бұрын
Me too
@dougn2350
3 жыл бұрын
If your mobile home is newer construction (2x4 wall studs on 16" centers) and well anchored in the ground you are quite safe from all but a direct hit by a strong tornado.
@michellesmolek2904
3 жыл бұрын
Doug N unless your porch and car port fly into your roof and walls, or a great big tree squishes your home...depend what you think safe is..
@community1949
4 жыл бұрын
When you hear a tornado siren like that I never know what to do exactly because I have no basement either. As a matter of fact I think the siren makes me more panic stricken.
@whytepohnee1
4 жыл бұрын
I'm sure. Imagine being asleep and waking up to that in the middle of the dark night 😱
@k1dicarus
4 жыл бұрын
If there is no basement to hide, get into the bathtub. Or the middle of your apartment inside a door frame. neighborhood
@bigmona2741
4 жыл бұрын
I live in south Louisiana, no basements. We shelter in the center most room of the house without windows, and that’s the bathroom. My kids (teens now) know the drill: grab a blanket or pillow, go to the bathroom sit and cover your head.
@thebowtiechaplain3399
4 жыл бұрын
You go under a stair case to the up stairs or go get in your bathtub with a mattress over you
@aantonides
4 жыл бұрын
talk to your neighbor about using his or her basement. I pulled over to a far house once to take shelter nice people was a crazy storm.
@Jessica_Helen
4 жыл бұрын
Been living in illinois my whole life. And this was one of the worst storms we've had in a long time. I didnt realize this storm hit all over the midwest until the next day.
@jonothandoeser
4 жыл бұрын
"Those without a generator shall be powerless"
@Jessica_Helen
4 жыл бұрын
@@jonothandoeser oh we had no power lol. But thankfully it was only out for 10 hours not an entire week like a lot of videos ive seen.
@Kellita17o
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this and happy you stayed safe while providing this coverage
@BrianWilking
4 жыл бұрын
Great footage. Thank you for sharing. I’ve never seen one before this event. Stay safe!
@weathermannax416
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting how long that lasted. It finally fell apart when it came into my state (MI). Though along the lakeshore the winds & heavy rain were something else.
@elveskickass
4 жыл бұрын
Wow. This is intense. Kudos for filming this storm.
@ccharles848
4 жыл бұрын
Wow! That is unbelievable! I’m glad you were safe!
@0763sarah
4 жыл бұрын
Try going through 4 hours straight of this mess. I live down in Houston and this is how it was during hurricane Ike in 2008. We were a month without power. Our two oak trees took a beating but held together as did the house. There is truly nothing like the howling of 140 mph wind. Hurricane Harvey dropped 63 inches of rain on Houston and the surrounding areas in 2017. We were blessed then too. Not a drop of water in the house. Our fellow Houstonians weren’t so lucky. Ironically we maintained power throughout Harvey. If it wasn’t for the coverage on KZitem we wouldn’t have known what had happened to the upper mid west. Excellent footage. Glad everyone is ok.Will definitely like and follow. 🙏🏼❤️🕊🇺🇸
@baneverything5580
4 жыл бұрын
THREE RADIOS TO CONSIDER FOR POWER OUTAGES/HURRICANES/EMERGENCIES.... SONY ICF-P26 -- This is a tiny $19.00 pocket sized radio with very good AM/FM reception that runs over 100 hours on two AA batteries. It`s 100% true analog and will last longer than a digital radio under most circumstances. Analog is much less likely to fail due to static discharge or EMP. The volume control can wear out quick on these little Sonys. Set the volume to a comfortable level and leave it and the radio will last for years. TECSUN R9012 --- This is another very small 100% true analog radio with excellent AM and shortwave reception. FM sucks on this one though but if you want a great little AM and shortwave radio for only $22.00 get this! This radio is famous for its value as a shortwave receiver! Runs over 100 hours on two AA batteries. This radio has been on the market for years and I know people who`ve owned this radio over seven years without problems SONY ICF-19 -- This is a digital DSP AM/FM radio but they did a good job on the circuitry. It only costs $29.00, is a bit bulky but not huge, runs over 400 hours off three D batteries!!! It has excellent loud sound and reception! The speakers on the small radios are good but somewhat tinny but all of these radios have a headphone jack and sound great with headphones or earbuds. Many don`t know but AM radio signals travel up to 1000 miles at night allowing you to get news and info from a large region.
@baneverything5580
4 жыл бұрын
I remember the democrats celebrating and laughing when Houston flooded.
@jonawesolowski-thecommunit9968
4 жыл бұрын
Yup. Good ole Ike. That was the craziest thing I've ever seen!! Southwest Ohio. Trees blowing sideways but was gorgeous n sunny. We got lucky only lost power about 8 hours
@rebeccasmith4594
4 жыл бұрын
you get days of warning for hurricanes, the *only* warning we had was a "severe thunderstorm" This quite literally came from nowhere to most of the people in its path.
3 жыл бұрын
@ Sadie B- I was a dispatcher for the Cajun Navy for hurricane Harvey flood victims.
@richs3769
4 жыл бұрын
Did anyone else come from that other storm video with the bird feeder?
@arjay1140
4 жыл бұрын
Damn, those sirens send chills down my spine every time I hear them.
@kathleenp4689
4 жыл бұрын
i've been binge watching derecho videos all night... CRAZY to see the damage in real time. My family and I (NE Cedar Rapids) holed up in our basement's concrete storm shelter--which /flooded/. Spent the whole hour trying to mop up the water that was streaming down all four walls. The irony was not lost on us, I assure you
@Buddha.ThaGod
4 жыл бұрын
I just want to say thank you for documenting this.
@bluntlyrose1853
4 жыл бұрын
this was insane. great vid
@Ultra54able
4 жыл бұрын
You've captured my worst nightmare!
@kalitime
4 жыл бұрын
Hi from Maryland. Great footage! Your Derecho beats the heck out of ours from several years ago. Our max winds were in the high 80s and they looked nothing like the winds in this video. Thank you for sharing this.
@JackieBaisa
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was intense! Glad you and your house withstood all the craziness!
@KRLEEQ
4 жыл бұрын
Damn I wish I saw the alert! I was driving in my car minutes from my house when it hit. Had to pull in some random driveway and wait in my car because trees and powerlines were falling right in front of my path home. Legit thought I was going to die 😂🤣
@hardgoldmods33_
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@20PINKluvr
4 жыл бұрын
Id be the same way. Id be crying
@deniserossiter1059
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you made it out in one piece!! 🙏🏼
@sheilahperry-rosales8748
4 жыл бұрын
You legit could have.
@mels6809
4 жыл бұрын
I live in Michigan and we had a Derecho back in the late days of June or early July, and I was home alone and it was one of the scariest things I've ever been in. Ours only got up to 70MPH. I can't imagine what 100 MPH would have been like.
@jake1110
4 жыл бұрын
Still on generator power over in Des Moines today. I was out running early that day and it was bright in sunny. In no time at all, it hit all at once and for a long time. One of the craziest storms I've ever been. Great footage! I only recorded a small tidbit of it and sent it over to a friend, who happened to live in Cedar Rapids. Wasn't sure if it was going to make it there without weakening.....obviously it did not!
@averagejohnson8364
4 жыл бұрын
In joliet power was out for a couple days. Some power lines were down. I saw a tree right smacked into a house. It was insane but only lasted 10 minutes
@KLW228
4 жыл бұрын
When you were talking about the roar, I felt the teary-eyed feeling.
@susanwahl6322
4 жыл бұрын
In every video that I’ve seen the first words are, “The winds are picking up now.”
@bigloudnoise
4 жыл бұрын
I'm having flashbacks to 2011 watching this. This is what it was like up here in Vinton back then. This time around the worst of it passed just south of us, and we didn't get hit anywhere near as hard, but it was still a scary storm. It'll take time, but eventually Cedar Rapids and everyone else affected will recover.
@zebreezebebe
4 жыл бұрын
Ahh, the dreaded siren! Thanks for sharing this crazy storm, am hopeful that things are much better for everyone this weekend!
@stephaneykuehl5049
4 жыл бұрын
We are your neighbor-we live in the light blue house with our tree on our house. We were all at work so interesting to see what was going on at home. Scary storm and so much damage all over town! Thanks for sharing!
@uwtitanfan
4 жыл бұрын
Stephaney Kuehl Hi there neighbor! Hopefully that tree was merciful on your house. Our block seems to have gotten away fairly unscathed otherwise.
@jnbond
4 жыл бұрын
Anybody else thinking first few minutes in and he's panning the neighborhood, "SECURE those garbage bins! NOW! And any loose lite-weight items!"
@RSCRedScreenChaser
4 жыл бұрын
Thought exactly that
@nativeson2633
3 жыл бұрын
Lol yup
@janiemiller280
4 жыл бұрын
And yes, it seemed to go on forever! Many trees around apartments fell including a really big one that missed my car by only a few feet but fell on the roof of the complexes gym and caved the roof in!
@alexandramunoz4551
4 жыл бұрын
Man, Derechos are so severe😱, I’m glad you and your neighbors are physically okay
@commondirtbagz7130
4 жыл бұрын
What people don’t seem to understand is that this was the equivalent of a category 2 hurricane. When Harvey made landfall it was a category 1. When Katrina hit New Orleans it was a category 2. So for about 2 hours people experienced the equivalent strength of katrina making landfall in towns that aren’t used to dealing with those kinds of storms.
@Tenticklez
4 жыл бұрын
Im glad they didnt have to deal with flooding. I lived in the suburbs of houston through harvey.
@paintedlady82
4 жыл бұрын
Upgraded to cat 4 highest winds 140 mph
@commondirtbagz7130
4 жыл бұрын
paintedlady82 at landfall it was a cat 2. Category 5 at full strength.
@commondirtbagz7130
4 жыл бұрын
paintedlady82 oh you’re referring to the derecho, I just saw that. That’s absolutely insane to think about.
@paintedlady82
4 жыл бұрын
I was here. I know what it was when. We did deal with severe flooding in 2008 and 2016. Cedar Rapids Ia. This is the same city.
@Flinix
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a storm! As a Floridian that deals with hurricanes, I might just go and say you had yerself a mini hurricane because boy were those winds persistent. I haven't seen that many trees down since Hurricane Frances hit here
@tuxcats8518
4 жыл бұрын
Too many lookie-loos afterwards. Sooo dangerous with branches, trees, and power lines dangling.
@kierstenpoole799
4 жыл бұрын
Down south we call that rubber neckin.
@krist3nmari38
4 жыл бұрын
You guys mean nosey people? Sorry, from Australia and don't understand the lingo 🤔
@tuxcats8518
4 жыл бұрын
@@krist3nmari38 Yes nosey people creating dangerous situations and traffic jams. Things like trees falling on moving cars. Some years ago a girl stepped outside her home after a hurricane into a puddle of water and got electrocuted from a live power line that was in the water.
@krist3nmari38
4 жыл бұрын
@@tuxcats8518 ah i understand....oh jeez thats horrible.... i can't imagine any weather like this, that's why it's so fascinating to me.... stay safe over there ♡♡
@tuxcats8518
4 жыл бұрын
@@krist3nmari38 I'd like to relay a few personal experiences to prevent others from doing the same stupid things. Hurricane Donna came through our state in 1960, including the eye. As the eye passed over, the neighborhood parents allowed us kids to go outside to witness this historic event. NO, NO, NO - never do that. We already had many trees and power lines down and we were actually messing around the power lines. Even though power was out, you still never know which lines are dead and which may still be live. NEVER go out in the first place. Unstable trees could fall on YOU. Especially don't let kids out. They will take risks that adults should know not to do. After 30 min our parents told us to come back inside for the rest of the storm. Fortunately, we lived to talk about it. Our neighborhood lost power for 11 days from Hurricane Isabel in 2003. Downed trees, trees, trees. Trees wrapped in power lines. Others had more lengthy outages. When a power crew from another state finally entered our neighborhood to restore our power, some of us were so excited we went outside to watch them work. We were standing at a place where we assumed we would be safe. NO, NO, NO - don't do it, stay inside. When they "flipped the switch", sparks started flying everywhere, including from the wires that were overhead where we were standing. We had to take off running. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Someone later told us that they had connected something backwards - whatever that meant. Just stay inside and away from potential danger until you have been officially told that it is safe. I actually still have a bit of storm PTSD from that one. Terrifying winds. Mom (Grandma) Footnote to Isabel. Storm started ramping up at 7:00 am. I stood at my front door and watched 2 trees go down across the street. Power went out at 7:30. So I closed up and locked up and went to my safe space. Not too long afterwards, someone was pounding on my front door to tell me that there was a branch on my truck. Really??? Trees and branches coming down all around us and he thinks I am going out? At that point I had to let it go. As he was going back home, another branch fell and almost hit him. NO, NO, NO - don't go out during a storm. By the way, when the storm was over, there were so many branches on the truck, you couldn't see it. And after they were all removed, the total damage consisted of a dime-sized dent on the upper part of left rear fender. No windows were broken. Someone could have been injured or killed for nothing.
@elithunder
4 жыл бұрын
I'm actually surprised that there wasn't more extensive structural damage! Y'all must have pretty awesome building codes!
@SunCoastFilms
4 жыл бұрын
Just an eerie stillness and silence when those sirens were going off. Oh man!
@hawkfan81497
4 жыл бұрын
From someone who lives in Cedar Rapids shit was nuts if I didn’t work Monday my car would’ve been totaled because the spot I typically park it at a tree fell and if my car was there it would’ve been totaled
@alabamajenny8751
4 жыл бұрын
We are thinking of y’all in Iowa. We have tornados in Alabama. One Deracho but many years back. Hope you all get power restored quickly! No basement here either, we hunker down in a deep hall closet under stairs centrally located in our home. Thinking of you all!
@carlaann316
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Juliet Tango
@MrGlenn7710
3 жыл бұрын
Wow..you brave..I would have been a nervous wreck!!.. glad you ok and hope your neighbors were ok..whew!.. that was madness!.. thanks for posting ⚔️🛡️
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