OT - Storm

[Ree4]

Didn't see a thread about this so I figured I'd start one. Anyone else affected by this? Starting the 4th day of no power at home, bank I work at was closed and just got power this morning. Farms across the state had entire crops wiped out. Gas supplies in town are minimal, no ice anywhere.

Thankfully no major house damage that I've seen for everyone I know, everyone I know is ok.

Hope everyone is safe.

 

[HawkGold]

Don't worry too much about farmers. If the don't have fci its on them. So far Trump is a huge socialist on the farm side.

 

[kicker22]

Luckily in Burlington we caught just the very southern tip of it. Power in some spots was out for a few hours (maybe even into the next day) and Mediacom was knocked off the grid for a few days, but everything seems to back to normal. We got really lucky.

 

[Northside Hawk]

How many people do you have on ignore?

There is a multi page thread titled "Dericho" that has been going since about an hour after it happened.

Good to see that your safe however. And if you've been offline with no internet access since this happened than I apologize. That was not an ordinary storm.

In the meantime check out the Dericho thread as well.

 

[kicker22]

How many people do you have on ignore?

There is a multi page thread titled "Dericho" that has been going since about an hour after it happened.

Good to see that your safe however. And if you've been offline with no internet access since this happened than I apologize. That was not an ordinary storm.

In the meantime check out the Dericho thread as well.

I chose to let it slide lol.

 

[uihawk82]

Didn't see a thread about this so I figured I'd start one. Anyone else affected by this? Starting the 4th day of no power at home, bank I work at was closed and just got power this morning. Farms across the state had entire crops wiped out. Gas supplies in town are minimal, no ice anywhere.

Thankfully no major house damage that I've seen for everyone I know, everyone I know is ok.

Hope everyone is safe.

There was tons of tree damage in and around des moines. Right after the winds died down I went for a long drive, one CD out and one CD on the way back. Lots of huge, old and some decrepit looking trees down, and probably some healthy ones.

We know a lot of people lost juice. We lost ours early just after the winds hit and a neighbors huge Walnut tree was down across the road and took down some wires. My wife and I were scheduled to drive up to Spirit Lake Weds AM but we decided to empty the Frig and freezer and head up there around 10 AM Tuesday.

Heading back home about 4 pm today and not sure if the juice is back on yet.

 

[Ree4]

How many people do you have on ignore?

There is a multi page thread titled "Dericho" that has been going since about an hour after it happened.

Good to see that your safe however. And if you've been offline with no internet access since this happened than I apologize. That was not an ordinary storm.

In the meantime check out the Dericho thread as well.

0, I don't ignore people. Never heard that word before, so I learned something today! First access I've had of any kind power/internet in about 72 hrs.

 

[okeefe4prez]

My mom says that in her opinion, the damage around Des Moines is drastically worse than the March 1990 ice storm in terms of downed trees. I don't know if you guys remember that one, but huge swaths of the area were without power for days after we got a horrific freezing rain with a few inches of accumulation. That sumnabitch pulled down like half the big trees in the area. Thankfully we lived out in the U in a fairly new area that still had cornfields just a few blocks away at the time, so there were no big trees and we only lost power for a couple of hours, but one of my mom's co-workers who lived out by Grimes stayed with us for awhile because she didn't have power for something like 10 days.

 

[okeefe4prez]

0, I don't ignore people. Never heard that word before, so I learned something today! First access I've had of any kind power/internet in about 72 hrs.

It's times like that when you realize you are lucky to be of a certain age, old enough to remember to keep a "spank bank."

 

[Robowe]

 

[uihawk82]

My mom says that in her opinion, the damage around Des Moines is drastically worse than the March 1990 ice storm in terms of downed trees. I don't know if you guys remember that one, but huge swaths of the area were without power for days after we got a horrific freezing rain with a few inches of accumulation. That sumnabitch pulled down like half the big trees in the area. Thankfully we lived out in the U in a fairly new area that still had cornfields just a few blocks away at the time, so there were no big trees and we only lost power for a couple of hours, but one of my mom's co-workers who lived out by Grimes stayed with us for awhile because she didn't have power for something like 10 days.

Definitely remember that ice storm, lived thru it, we live just north of des moines airport and we have major damage to a huge beautiful soft maple. That tree never did recover correctly. We spent the night by candle and battery power. But we were scheduled for a few days in Iowa City where my wife had a conference. Dealt with the downed limbs, some almost 3 foot wide when we got home.

Lot's of other people were in the same boat. Hard to compare the two events as the heavy ice made limbs drop straight down while the super high winds I think to more damage to buildings and trees tend to be flattened sideways and do cause more damage.

 

[okeefe4prez]

No way. I've seen pictures of a buddy's house in CR and it is bad, but I'll take that over a flood any day of the week because the total loss is much less widespread. My house got flooded in '98 in a freak storm sewer backup. That was the shittiest thing I've ever seen.

 

[haydensly]

Didn't see a thread about this so I figured I'd start one. Anyone else affected by this? Starting the 4th day of no power at home, bank I work at was closed and just got power this morning. Farms across the state had entire crops wiped out. Gas supplies in town are minimal, no ice anywhere.

Thankfully no major house damage that I've seen for everyone I know, everyone I know is ok.

Hope everyone is safe.

Glad you are back up and running. I live on the far west side of IC and only lost internet for a couple of days, did not lose power. Thankfully, not a lot of damage over here although some people close by just got power back on.