Crazy weather with 100 MPH winds hits Midwest USA

So close to harvest time for it to happen. Now if they are able to salvage anything they won't have anywhere to put it.

 

Wow...so much damage...glad y'all are safe. Just watch out will all that storm damage...

 

We went to Marshalltown and cleaned up my mother-in-law's yard today. My wife took both my generators down a few days ago when it looked like the power wasn't coming back on any time soon for her and my brother-in-law. We took more fuel for them today because very few gas stations are open and what few are have limited gas supplies. I just couldn't grasp why they can't get the power back on, but after going there and seeing it first hand, it's unbelievable. I helped clean up after the F5 tornado wiped out Parkersburg Iowa back in 2008 and that was just horrible, here it wasn't total destruction but the damage is much more widespread. All the streets have piles of brush and trees piled up 6 or 10 feet high. Lots of streets are still totally blocked or just single lanes dozed through. They can't get the power on because most of the wires and poles are still buried under down trees. They say it might be a week before all the power is back on and I believe it. They've barely made a dent in the debris cleanup, and it's been five days now.

 

Thanks for the update Bgoathill

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa —KCRG reports some rural Iowans this weekend are burning fallen structures that would be too expensive to move. Carol Klaeys is a hog farmer who had four barns fall Monday during the storm.

Rural Iowans burning fallen structures in aftermath of derecho