Quality Iowa storm break out today/tonight
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Lots of damage and destruction but Iowan’s will do what they do and that’s clean up their areas with the help of families and friends. Haven’t heard of any deaths or serious injury so that’s a good thing.
This was round one and calling for round two this afternoon into evening. Fingers crossed the weather isn’t as extreme today as it was yesterday and last night🤞🏻
We are babysitting a friends twins today as they go and help clean up their brothers house.
Windows completely blown out, garage door ripped off, shingles ripped off. House is still standing, but they're going to have to get an engineer out and do a bunch of structural repair, I'm sure.
The fortunate thing about how late it hit DSM is there were likely none (or very few) people and children at the daycare.
Don’t forget Minden, God making sure they never have another drag brunch. Tornados scare me more than hurricanes. Hoping the best for everyone impacted.
Some of these massive tornados are actually 2 or more circling around the same central point. One funnel goes up, another vortex comes back down.
So a line of them may be the "same" tornado, but it was actually multiple kind of passing off a baton.
Or you could just get a few spots that have tornado touchdowns, but they'll have a smaller sister tornado nearby.
We’ve spent most of the weekend helping friends dig out of the rubble. I’ll post some pics. This one was taken right outside my house. This is the same F5 that hit Minden. It then crossed I80. Overturned a semi and pickup, then headed towards us. At the time of this picture it was headed towards us. I ran for the basement. It passed our house about a mile away.
Neighbors took this picture shortly after it passed by Shelby. This is right before it took out my friends place.
These are pics from my friends place, about 5 miles north and east of Shelby. They got into their basement with 30 seconds to spare. His wife runs a dog training business out of one of their buildings, which is now gone. She has the most disciplined, award winning, trained German Shepherds. They were our neighbors for many years. Our dog would freak out and bark at them from across the street. Their Shepherds would just sit there, mind their own business and not even give my dog a second look. However, when the tornado took a turn towards their acreage, they refused to go to the basement. They had to carry and literally throw them down the stairs. My friend Bob was sucked up to the ceiling.
We just heard this morning that Minden did have 1 fatality. Waiting on more details.
Morningside football team is coming down today to help with my buddy’s acreage.
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