***official 5/21/24 super storm thread***

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Ames might luck out. Looks like one is going directly north, and one directly south.

Might be able to go fully erected in an hour.

Let that flag fly!

I have had a few bad experiences with dead trees coming down. One that size, even a rotten dried out branch would crush anyone below. If it's not within striking distance of your house you don't need a professional. Just a chainsaw and a weekend with lots of cold beer.

Yeah, I was certainly green when I moved put here and cringe at some of the things I did. Getting multiple saws stuck trying to fall it the wrong way, giant barber chairs, truly shit that can kill you. I play it pretty safe these days.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

I thought Ankeny was going to dodge it but the this radar doesn't look great for any of us.

https://radar.weather.gov/station/kdmx/standard

Glad I worked from home this afternoon. Shit, this morning driving back from DSM, the interstate almost came to a standstill with the downpours

 

[Bank of Hawk]

So yea all the schools let out early in my 20 mile radius and all we got was about a 5 minute downpour with 20 mph winds and now it is nice enough to golf 18, which I will.

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Every school district around my wife's district let out early, but hers. Her superintendent is an idiot. Now kids are on bus, with no seatbelts in the middle of a storm

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Every school district around my wife's district let out early, but hers. Her superintendent is an idiot. Now kids are on bus, with no seatbelts in the middle of a storm

....the wipers on the bus go splash splash splash, splash splash splash. Splash splash splash.....

 

[Jimmy McGill]

That Greenefield footage is pretty wild. I don't remember a spring with this kind of weather....

 

[srams21]

I have had a few bad experiences with dead trees coming down. One that size, even a rotten dried out branch would crush anyone below. If it's not within striking distance of your house you don't need a professional. Just a chainsaw and a weekend with lots of cold beer.

Protip: Cut down tree first, then drink beer. Order of operations is important here.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

@Tenacious E barely lucked out, tornado by Slater/Huxley

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Protip: Cut down tree first, then drink beer. Order of operations is important here.

Protip: hire a bunch of reformed meth heads, pull out your lawn chair, get a cold beverage and laugh as they do the work

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Did TC just doxx Millahs x account?

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Casey's in Greenfield damaged yet people are congregating around it, not thinking about the potential gas explosion.

But hey, you do you. Iowa = Florida North

 

[StormHawk42]

In Waukee, we got about 1-2 minutes of straight line winds and hurricane rain but then it was done.

 

[EagleHawk]

Our roof is about due. Could use the win.

My roof is too old so the insurance company just upped the deductible on it.

 

[TC Nole OX]

Casey's in Greenfield damaged yet people are congregating around it, not thinking about the potential gas explosion.

But hey, you do you. Iowa = Florida North

I saw that they shut off all the gas lines coming into town due to multiple gas leaks. Doesn’t mean all the gas is gone though

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Ames is raining so hard I can only see about a block away. Neighbor's limb in the yard

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

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Trying to clean out southern Story County. There used to be a strip club in Cambridge

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

A friend of mine in Ankeny had a tree limb fall on his truck and go through master bedroom window....

 

[TC Nole OX]

Trying to clean out southern Story County. There used to be a strip club in Cambridge

Holy rollers shut it down? That reminds me. I forgot to check on Tubby at Yoshi’s in Davenport last week.

 

[TC Nole OX]

This doesn’t look good

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Holy rollers shut it down? That reminds me. I forgot to check on Tubby at Yoshi’s in Davenport last week.

No idea. Maybe it is still open. Never been there, but several clients have been there.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

This doesn’t look good

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WTF? was he all meth'ed out

 

[WadeLookingbill]

This doesn’t look good

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What in the hell?! If that driver survives (in a tanker no less) it'll be a miracle. Truck #1 is going to have his own issues but at least he stopped.

 

[TC Nole OX]

WTF? was he all meth'ed out

A trucker did something similar on I-10 bridge near Pensacola during a major hurricane around 20 years ago. He didn’t survive

 

[BrunoMars420]

 

[TC Nole OX]

This doesn’t look good

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[TC Nole OX]

The car got out just in time

 

[Jimmy McGill]

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Just insane. Perhaps we are going to have hurricane proof buildings now with climate change causing so many more tornados

 

[MitchLL]

Ames is raining so hard I can only see about a block away. Neighbor's limb in the yard

Arm or leg?

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Arm or leg?

More phallic

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[noleclone2]

This doesn’t look good

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Sorry but I lol’d

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Sorry but I lol’d

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I hope the guy/gal made it, but that is funny as all get out because it is true

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[like-woahh]

Everyone good in the northern DSM 'burbs? Checked in with some folks and sounds like trees/powerlines down around Johnston and Ankeny... looks like it slipped just north of Ankeny.

 

[ferentzin04]

Just insane. Perhaps we are going to have hurricane proof buildings now with climate change causing so many more tornados

Absolutely insane footage. I have a bunch of family in Greenfield, including my dad and grandparents, so I know exactly where that is. Just got off the phone with my dad, luckily it sounds like most of my immediate family is ok.

 

[Scott559]

Really strong wind in Newton, Power is out.