***official 5/21/24 super storm thread***
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SIAP...Weather Channel reporting multiple fatalities in Greenfield tornado.
Confirmed fatalities in Greenfield.
A FB friend of mine, knew of two people that died.
Prayers tonight for Greenfield. Brings back bad memories of the Parkersburg F5 in 2008.
Wow 😳 I just saw pics of the storms in Iowa today. One of our local meteorologists is from Iowa and he was just amazed at the size of the twister in Des Moines.
Sincerely hope all you guys and your loved ones are okay.
Sincerely hope all you guys and your loved ones are okay.
Multiple fatalities in Greenfield, Iowa.
I am very surprised that it looks like none of those homes had basements. I thought almost every stick built home in Iowa had a basement or at least a storm cellar.
Sure this isn't the AC repair guy?Weather Channel live from the Dirty D!!
Maybe same drone but slightly different angle, from higher altitude. Can see more of the town.
State patrol will have a news conference this am to update death toll etc.
My wife works at Methodist in Des Moines and she was saying this was a mass casualty event. Lots of people from Greenfield and around the area were coming through the ER
The hospital in Adair County took a hit. Same thing happened in Joplin, Missouri except far worse. My friend was the ER doc at that hospital and they lost a lot of people in that hospital. Essentially the windows blew out and peppered the hospitalized patients with shrapnel.
I worry what will happen when a tornado like that hits an Iowa metro area. It would be ugly to say the least.
that Joplin event was crazy, the hospital was about the only building left standing
I remember driving by the area on the way to Texas several months later and was shocked that their wasn't more deaths
Looks like a war zone.that Joplin event was crazy, the hospital was about the only building left standing
I remember driving by the area on the way to Texas several months later and was shocked that their wasn't more deaths
I have seen war zones that look better than that.
I hope POTUS declares it a disaster zone. They need all the help they can get.
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I bet most had basements, but there's so much debris the basements are level with ground floor?
I'm sure there could be some zero lot properties.
Yeah, but insurance only buys you things. Pictures, legal documents, etc. It would be a bitch. Just an abstract in your safe could cost you a lot
Looked like lots of homes blown away that were just on slabs. But you could be right.
Some insurance polices will pay for cost to recover damaged or lost documents, like legal documents, but that is usually on commercial policies. A person might be able to add something like that on a home policy.
I don't have active clients outside of the State anymore, but I am required to keep old client files for years. (rarely would that ever be an issue)
You know, I think he will. I wouldn’t ever think he’d just let the heartland suffer through this.
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