Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Derecho Caught on Camera 

Got it by one of these in VA as a kid and never seen anything like it since. Nearly died from a tree crashing into my house. Even Hurricane Isabella did less damage

Zachary that is so horrible I live in North Carolina and we get true hurricanes but you are right we get time to plan. A storm like y'all had would be too scary for words. I saw pictures of the devastation pretty unreal. Hope you and your family made out ok

Why did you only have minutes to prepare? Warning system failed? I ask because it originated in the South Dakota-Nebraska border area and I knew it was coming here in Nebraska, so you all should have known it was coming, giving you were more that 200 miles from it's starting point.

@@danr4316 Partial failure i am sure.. Only half the city got warnings via sirens and emergency phone alerts seemed too be pretty hit n miss.. Most people I talked to had no warning. Though I noticed a few people on the south end SE and SW I talked to did get notifs. I live on the north west side of Cedar Rapids and we had no idea. I just went to walk up the stairs to use the bathroom and thought it sounded like someone was taking a shower and was getting worried about having to wait. When i got to the main floor I noticed it was raining kinda hard and the lights flickered.. and when i went towards the bathroom power died.. My sis and I watched the storm through the front door. We never got any kind of alert the entire time even while it was happening.. No phone alerts which is typical for us to get in our area, no sirens, maybe fm radio (we don't have a radio anymore) but i doubt that cause my bro who is fedex ground delivery said he got nothing too and he was out there drivin his truck when this happened and a tree went through his window (he's fine thankfully all be it a couple cuts) .. I think for most of the city this was a surprise attack from nature. I think my other brother was saying while they did get alerts (they live on the south side) it didn't say anything about 140mph winds. it was like around 40-60mph winds.. So even the ones that were alerted.. it was very much underestimated, and he said that they only had like a 13 min warning.

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People in Iowa have no idea how bad this was in areas, like Newton and Marshalltown, no one was warned of this. Des Moines had no damage in comparison to CR. And as one other commenter stated, we had no warning of this. My poor little town was devastated. People still have no power.

Emmi B - I’m in Des Moines, and we certainly had a lot of tree damage, but not nearly as bad as the Hwy 30 corridor. I thought my 55 hrs without power was frustrating. Then I had friends north who went 8 or 9 days without. I’m originally from Marshalltown, and was up there the day after the tornado in 2018. Kind of sickening. And then to have this. And instead of a half-mile wide path across town it was whole counties wide across half the state. UNREAL.

Is their more footage videos you could send

It's shredding everything in it's path ... horrendous! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K9yDqnw-rEY.html

2020: year of the derecho. if we let climate change go on like this, IA's gonna look more like west NE or WY in a few years.

@Raymond Burns that's the future i see too :( join the sunrise movement, folks. it's not just for hopeless kids.

Had a good one with 120 mph winds which followed I-94 from Benton Harbor to Downriver Detroit. July 1980. Pushed over a whole row of Edison towers in Lincoln Park. Tore the trees to shreds.

@@JoeKaye-hn5dt They say the storms are rare and let's keep it that way.

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Yea, it went on for quite a spell. Don't care to be in the middle of one of those ever again.

We have had a few up to 60 to 80mph.in TN. Delivered pigs to that area years ago. Really hate to hear and see this, beauty of a state and classy people..

@killroyhero, my daughter and her family live smack dab in the path of this hellscape of Cedar Rapids! Her husband is on redeployment to "the Middle East"; {that alone makes for an angry grandma!} So, she hadn't left for work yet, yes, she is a Funeral Director/Mortician, so she just had enough time to put the boys and herself into an interior room with a blanket over their heads and flashlights and books! Her new 3 season porch ended up in a neighbors garage! Her deflated pool somehow ended up in a different neighbor's backyard, full of water! That's the one that perked my ears! I'm in SD and have been in blizzards with 80 m.p.h. winds, on the farm. We also lost our windmill once to what I have often believed was a derecho, they just didn't have a word for it then! Hoping you and yours are okay today! Peace!

well we didn’t know it was gonna happen. there wasn’t even any rain in the forecast

They just updated, Cedar Rapids winds clocked out at 140 mph. 😔

So r the food crkps really hurting

Nemesis & Its Planets ( Nibiru Plant X are here !! Hang on cause it's just starting to ramp up. God Blrss...

@@sandyhyatt1052 planet X lol. Yea ok. Been hearing this conspiracy for years, sometimes even with date's as to when. Planet x is as big a lie as covid lol

@@michaelriley8002 Believe what u want.....Im sorry that u are laughing....U won't b in about a yr. God Bless & Take care

Weird thing is - I was on my way to Cedar Rapids to go look at a job (I'm an electrician) but I was running behind on my last job. Had I not been running behind I would have been caught right in the middle of it.

Mine was 140 mph winds

:D

Same and siren's for about 2 mins here in Cedar rapids

Was there for that. We had 100mph winds in Stevens Point but only lasted a few minutes. This looks even worse

Steve Guse - it was crazy, wasn’t it! I think you’re right- the one in Iowa was definitely worse.

JadonGamer - thanks for that clarification.

@JadonGamer , maybe so but they need to start calling them Derechos and make it clear that they're no joke. Here they just gave severe thunderstorm as a warning. That means very little because we're constantly hearing severe thunderstorm and they've never been actually severe until the derecho.

Are there any cedars left standing?

We just got power today 🤦🏾‍♀️😭😭

@@aishajuma2334 omg! I'm so happy for you!

@@emilyevans8135 So happy for you!!! :)

From Norway Iowa, we were without power for a little over a week. I came to Cedar Rapids after the fact and just couldn't believe what I saw! Almost a month since the storm, it's going to take months to recover. Not just Linn county, but also Benton and Tama counties.

jerry arnold My youngest told me she learned in school (many years ago) that CR had won awards for having the most trees in a city our size. Now she says we’ll be known for the most toothpicks! (She’s 18 now btw) We just got power back about 7pm here near Beaver park & Grant Wood Elementary school, day 10!! My Husbeast and I are originally from Kansas, both grew up there. Survived our share of F5’s. This derecho? We’d never seen anything like it!! We had no cell service until Sunday night.

Shit this aint nothin to what i see when we get hurricanes

We've lost shade for 150 years....sure the softwoods & Maples & Walnuts & Pines will grow back in about 20 or 30 years....mature Oaks won't be seen again for many generations. The shade they provided shall be dearly missed. 😢

@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 Take a ride east of Antigo, Wisconsin towards Marinette. 30 miles of totally decimated mature woods. I never seen anything like it. Happened July, 2019.

@@FishOholic17 Yeah but we can see hurricanes coming far in advance. This just came out of nowhere.

They are not like the flexible palm trees down south.

@Mara L That video was at a golf course. Some of those trees were over 150 years old. At what angle should the trees have been planted?

Dorian Johnson, lol

Dorian Johnson 😂😂

Thats kinda funny. I wonder if it can snap those woof electric poles.

Imagine if this had lasted for hours, like a hurricane!

Thomas Blanchard Imagine having time to prepare, like a hurricane!

wickeli God I really hate one uppers 😒

elr456 I meant it kinda as a joke, both suck and for similar reasons. Didn’t really like their comment is why I said it.

wickeli I should have said I ALSO hate one uppers, I’m on your side lol

Also the farmers they lost A LOT of money

Likely they didn't lose their homes. All they gotta do is merely go into Kansas to find it.

@@alexmorales9150 You must have a trained eye. Didn't see any money...and besides this shows Cedar Rapids...a city.

We are ok its just a lot of people died from chainsaws and tree branches

I talked to a guy at the Chanhassen National Weather Service about derechos spawning tornadoes. He explained that derechos contain tornadoes in the clouds above called spinups. They usually don't become full blown tornadoes but are known for the high winds and damage caused by these monsters.

Ben Kistler I wish you the best. Farm put food on our table.

So sorry :(

Prayers out to all the farmers. Hope you guys can get help to rebuild.

Ben kistler sorry to her that. I wish the best for you and your family.

So it really damaged that much food crops

So sorry that this happened to you.

I’m sorry to hear this. The NWO is ramping up their plans to destroy everything. LBJ said; “ He who controls the weather controls the World”! He said this in the 1960’s at a commencement address. Everyone needs storm cellars. Weather modification is real and very scary. God Bless. Stay strong 🙏🏻❤️

John Hofmeister -- I used to live in Cedar Rapids and still have lots of family there. It’s such a great place and so unfair to have yet another tragedy-- thought you guys had your share with the flooding years ago. As if we needed any more crap from 2020..........

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As close to a tornado as you can get with straight-line winds. Unreal.

Not natural. Caused by haarp

No not harrp but did you vote Trump the antichrist?

Anyone who watched this from their front porch is gone, and so is their porch.

We do it a lot in Michigan too!

You set up the camera, push record and head for the basement!

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*and Indiana.

This storms winds were the equivalent of a category 3 hurricane or EF-2 tornado. It was basically an inland cat-3 hurricane

4-10 MILLION acres I’ve heard estimated

When was the last one for you to fascinated by it?

Really?!? I have never heard of a derecho until now nor has anyone I know. How did you first hear about one? May I ask?

I love derechos. Their hectic wind patterns makes them very interesting to study and watch. A shame that this one took out 1/3 of Iowa's crops though...

That's still not answering either of our questions? When was the last one you saw to be fascinated by? Maybe a link to a past study or news event in which it happened? Are you really a bot? Why is a bot on a post like this?

@@iti7201 am I paranoid or is this a bot?

Me either! Sounds like something just make up! Or something unnatural. Definitely seemed unnatural to me, can't explain it! Watched many different video versions, all seemed unnatural, very Strange!

I’ve delt with winds like that twice in south Louisiana. One recently when two hail storms back to back hit me, destroyed a tree in my backyard, a squall line which is the same as a derecho but shorter and less strong hit me, knocked down a basketball goal into the side of my dads car, winds were recorded around 60 mph, but our weather station picked up 39

Lasted for like 10 seconds and before it was slightly windy and raining hard, next thing I knew I heard what sounded like a lot of air moving through really fast, and stuff started getting damaged

Derecho hit upstate New York/northern PA, a decade ago. Widely reported. There was a smaller one in northern IL about that same time. Due to time of year, no crop damage but substantial damage to roofs, buildings, trees. This one, a bit unique due to duration and coverage swath.

Derechos happen often in the midwest

This was beautifully horrible

The one in 2010 didn't come with much warning either. I was in my room and my whole window in my apartment shifted. Looked outside it was blue, green, and red lights in sky with winds similar to this. I ran too my unknown neighbors house with terror!

Update: just got internet TODAY!! Hip hip hurray!!

@Mara L yes, people lost 100s of dollars worth of food and we were already struggling from the CV19 pandemic

That was a summer of crazy weather.

I was driving across iowa and we saw telephone poles snapped right in half like toothpicks on the ridges

What about the families and homes that were injured and destroyed?

@@creativedream7395 of course, they too!

And animals

Ya a lot of birds were hide ing here in tama country but there was a lot and damage like trees houses with trees on them light polls were down in the middle of the street it was scary but it was scarier for my little sister in a car while it hit she is ok now but she is scared of rain and a big storm

@@creativedream7395 im tama there was no one hurt during it but a lot of people got hurt from the chainsaws and tree branches

I live in CR...this was hands down the most terrifying experience I've ever been though.

Imagine thinking this storm only affected Cedar Rapids

it means land hurricane. iowa is in the middle so we don’t have any like big bodies of water so👌🏻

I heard 12

@@nothingtoxic1879 , lol!

I think at one point it started to lean into the storm.

That's mother nature, it will continue to do mother nature things....because it's not a person w feelings.

There wasn't any media attention or outside help sent in until almost a full week later. Many are still without power almost 2 weeks later and hundreds of people are completely homeless now. 😔

@@k.kilburg9871 Mind boggling. Two states get flattened....entire crops destroyed and the media is mute. I tell ya.... they are beyond corrupt. They are inept to the point of the US being without news. God be with the victims of this disaster.

Lol