July 4th DISASTER! - The Ohio Fireworks Derecho of 1969 

Your dad and I watched the storm from the front picture window. The sky was black, and the huge trees on our street were bent way over. We were scared shitless. Your grandmother, as I recall, put on a good front and told us everything would be okay, and it was no big deal. But we sure thought it was!

Funny enough, July 4th, 1977 is also known for another famous derecho. It hit Wisconsin and Michigan, traveling over 800 miles in 14 hours. 37 people were injured and one died. It started around 10 am in Minnesota and didn't reach the Toledo, OH area until just after midnight on July 5th. I wasn't born until 1983, but my parents and one of my older siblings remembers it. My parents had to get my sister and brother out of bed and take cover late at night because funnel clouds were being spotted all over the Detroit area late at night(we lived in the northeast corner of Detroit). While it's not uncommon for us to get severe weather and tornado weather here in Detroit around July 4th, that was one of the few times we actually had dangerous weather on Independence Day. A channel here on RU-vid called The Museum Of Classic Chicago Television has a clip on one of the Detroit tornado warnings being issued. It's a short clip, but fun for those of us who are nostalgic.

You’re without a doubt the most underrated channel on RU-vid in my opinion. Your videos are awesome and very informative. The algorithm brought me here so whatever you’re doing keep it up!

Derecho is a word I've only learned of recently when one struck southern Ontario and Quebec in May 2022. Winds like I've never experienced in my life.

Lifelong Lakewood resident here. Always been facinated by this event. Fun fact: it struck the shore at Lakewood Park at 7:55pm that Friday evening. Edgewater and Lakewood Park had record crowds that year for the 4th. The record still stands to this day. This storm is one event that I actually "got the T-shirt" for. Literally. Got it custom made complete with the DECCA radar image along with the storm stats on the front.

I was nine years old and living near St. John Hospital on Detroit Avenue at West 80th Street on the West Side of Cleveland. I remember this storm vividly. Watching the first winds swoop in and literally knock my next-door neighbor off his feet, watching the huge hollowed oak tree in the back yard fall over into the neighbor's yard, and after the storm passed through, watched in horror as fire trucks came up West 80th towards the Hospital with injured people from Edgewater, sitting or laying on them. It was like living through the Apocalypse.

I remember this storm very well. We had just gotten to Edgewater and were looking for a place to sit. My husband said "look at those clouds, when the winds come up it will be pretty bad" He no sooner said this than the wind kicked up and the storm hit. Walking up the shoreway to go home a guy came out from under a tree. Turned out a tree had just fallen on his car.

The 2012 derecho was the only one I experienced. It’s impossible to describe it in words. I lived in south eastern Ohio at the time, in a very wooded area (in Wayne National Forest). The skies were blue and there was no wind. Suddenly, wind and clouds blew in and the old growth trees surrounding my house were bending sideways. Breaking and cracking all around, falling onto my roof and deck. I had no power for 9 days. The day after the storm it took me three hours to travel what would’ve normally taken me 20 minutes because every possible path was blocked by fallen trees. I had to drive through and over smaller trees/branches to even get out. The storm itself was shocking. But the most shocking thing was how sudden it was. My only warning was from friends who experienced the storm 45 minutes or so before it reached me.

I am seventy five. Does that disqualify me? When this monster came into my life, I was in Loudenville, Oh., after a twenty mile canoe trip down the Mohican River. Friends and I drove back north through Wooster, and on to Lodi. The wipers were on high speed, all the way back. The lightening made the trip look like we were in a welding shop. The Wayne County fairgrounds in Wooster had high water marks on some of their barns. A young man died in a swollen creek just east of Wooster. The village of Lodi had flooding in the downtown area. The fifty mile drive home was a chore after that much canoeing. Dick Goddard was a folk hero around north eastern Ohio for many years. This was a very well prepared production, which is standard practice for you. Thank you.

Excellent breakdown! I was at my grandparents cottage on Lake Erie, the backyard faced Bay Bridge. I remember it getting dark and the lights coming on the bridge. Dad looked around front and told everyone to grab their stuff and get out of there. He was incredible that night.

Howie Lund, a Cleveland radio personality, was the MC on stage at Lakewood Park that 4th. He kept telling the crowd to "think dry" in the hour leading up to the storm. My Dad's group had just performed, and we walked to the fence overlooking the lake. My Dad looked at the clouds rolling in and said it was time to go. (He later told me he hadn't seen cloud formations like that since his days in the South Pacific) My Mom was arguing she'd come to see fireworks and wanted to stay, as he made us link hands and dragged the four of us in the general direction of our car. Then the Storm Hit... That first gust was well over 100mph, and the wind just kept coming. It felt like being inside a blender set on high! I don't even know how we made it to the car. It was hard getting out of the park. My Dad took in a mother with a baby, and an unrelated teenaged kid, in our 4-door Impala. We got out of the there by driving over the grounds of Saint Augustine's Academy, which was next door to the park. It took a while to drop off our passengers because the old man had to keep navigating around downed trees blocking streets. The amount of damage that took place in just a couple of minutes was unbelievable. It was equally unbelievable, in my opinion anyway, that only two people were killed at Lakewood Park that night. I was 12... I was there... And it was B-A-D!

My late mom talked about it often and another late friend of mine was camping in a trailer during this event . At the Wayne County Fair ( Wooster) there is sign on one of the barns that shows the water level on that day , and 2 Wooster police officers died attempting a water rescue nearby the fairgrounds.

Dick Goddard!! What an absolute legend! For both meteorology and animal rescue. How about the Palm Sunday outbreak?

I was 9 at the time. My brother and sister and I were staying at my grandmothers at the time. Her home was only 1 block south of the Shore way, and only about a quarter mile to the east from Edgewater Park. We were walking to Edgewater and as we reached a bridge that crossed over the Shore way, I will never forget that wall of clouds. It looked like a colossal rolled up carpet unraveling heading almost strait down. It was almost like you could reach out and touch it. We were still close enough to Grams to run back and make it to safety.

You answered a question of mine that popped up when you began this video. We had just moved to Northeast Ohio, three months before this storm and its aftermath popped up. I was young, but, at 8 years old, I was old enough to remember some things. We were living in Alliance, about halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburg. Alliance has the second highest point in Ohio and we lived about 2 blocks from it, on a huge hill. I couldn’t remember when this occurred exactly, but I knew it was in the time we moved to Alliance or no more than a few years after. Anyway, we got a huge rain. I remember we had a foot of water in our driveway. A block away, there was a slight dip in the hill before the highest point. It flooded there enough that they brought a boat out. However, this was along a four lane highway, state route 62, and they had just installed new sewers no more than the month before. All of that water was gone within an hour. Other places didn’t fare as well. At the bottom of the hill, there was a street and there was a hill going up the other side from it, as well. Fortunately, it was the summer, because my elementary school was on that street and, as, you can imagine, it was a flooded mess. But it was summer, so things had time to dry out. Thank you for pinpointing that for me. I knew the general time that happened, but that pinpoints it. Actually, that was just one of many instances of severe weather that occurred between 1969-1982 in Alliance (Some were statewide). I found a broken softball size hailstone in our yard a year or two after the flood. On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, in 1974 ( Yes, that was an extreme year in Ohio for weather.) we had 22 inches of snow in town and ended up having an 8 day Thanksgiving vacation (We had ten snow days back then, and used them all. In 1978, we had the Blizzard, but I tell people, although the rest of the state, was buried, we had1/4 inch of snow on the sidewalk outside of our house. The 1974 snowstorm was far worse for us. In January of 1982, the whole state faced extreme cold. I was a junior at Ohio State and heading back to school on that Sunday. It was -13 when we left Alliance. The Bengals played in the AFC championship in Cincinnati that afternoon. They called it the Freezer Bowl. With the fastest wind gusts, the wind chill got down to 75 or 80 below. There were also 6 in. of snow that night in Columbus. It was so bad, there were rumors that OSU was going to cancel class the next day ( One of the radio stations falsely reported that, but it didn’t happen.). The cold was so extreme that when I got to my room there was an inch of ice on the INSIDE of the windows. What happened was that the temperature difference between outside and inside caused condensation which ran down the windows and flash froze. Like I said, there was a lot of weird weather in Ohio and Northeast Ohio, specifically during that time period.

I will never forget that storm as long as I live. We were visiting family in Port Clinton, Ohio that day. That storm came up so fast and seemingly out of nowhere. It went on for hours and we thought it would never end. Huge old trees on the courthouse lawn were falling like matchsticks. Not only the sheer volume of the rainwater was piling up, but the water from Lake Erie was also being blown onshore and combining with it and slowly coming up the street. This went on for hours and hours and my cousin and I couldn't sleep so we stayed up all night listening to her little transistor radio and just having fun. It was definitely one of those things in life that you never forget!

wow! i didn’t know you were an ohioan! i’m one too-born in northeast central ohio, but currently living in columbus. i’m *way* too young to recall this event (my mom wasn’t even born yet!)-hell, i had no idea about it until i watched this! i do remember the june 29, 2012 derecho vividly, though. it knocked out my home’s power for over a week, two of the trees near our home had huge branches torn off of them and thrown into our yard, and it all happened on my ex step-dad’s birthday weekend. we watched as the wind whipped in the front yard in the living room, where there was this massive window. in retrospect, i probably shouldn’t have sat so close to the window, but it was really cool for a weather enthusiast like myself to watch. i remember my mom actually made brownies on the GRILL to celebrate afterwards since we didn’t have power. this was a really nice watch, and it’s even more interesting thanks to you and your mom’s insight, from an ohioan perspective. keep up the good work! i’ve really loved your recent content.

As someone from Iowa, I’d love for you to talk about the August 2020 derecho. That was significant for me because it happened 4 days before I moved out to college for my freshman year. The town I’m from, Clinton, got hit really hard However, the school I go to is in Cedar Rapids and they got hit the hardest. I remember how much damage there was in my town, and how bad it was when I got to CR a few days later

8:23, I remember that storm, was heading east for home with that with it slowly gaining on me, I'll never forget how fast those clouds moved. Ended up having to take shelter at a farmplace when it caught up to me.

I was 6 and my family and I went to watch the fireworks at the Lake County Speedway in Painesville Township. We'd just arrived when the wind hit. I remember the sky being a super dark, odd color and looked "boiling" almost. Sheets of the parking lot gravel pelted us as we ran back to the car. My father tried to drive us home, but the rain was falling horizontally, a wall of water, with zero visability, so we took shelter behind a building. The wind was lifting the car, it was "hovering", and it blew out the window in the back seat, next to me, covering me with rocks and glass. I think I jumped into the front seat with my brother and mom, and all four of us watched the building in front of us get ripped apart by the storm. That was some scary shit. We couldn't have know it then, but we were sheltering very near the path of that F2 tornado.

I was just a kid living in Toledo that day. The east side of Toledo suffered the most with lots of flooding and damage. Our house in the south end avoided much of the damage, but I won't forget that sky.

I was 7 years old at the time. I remember it well. All my family went down to the basement. My grandmother stayed upstairs seated by the kitchen window when all of this was happening. I was very scared. I can remember praying with my mother.

I was in the June 29th, 2012 derecho and I will never, ever forget how terrifying that night was.

I was there as a child. It was insane. I didn’t understand what was happening. We were at the park and water was coming over. Also there was a water-spout. The water was coming from everywhere. My parents finally got me into one of the cars. Branches and other debris were everywhere. My mother was pregnant with my brother. My stepfather took her to the hospital in our 2nd car, she felt like she was going into labor. Thank you for this video. We all survived.

I remember that as I was 9 visiting the grandparents in Toledo and were visiting relatives. It took 8 hours to get home about 5 miles. Many roads flooded with trees and power lines down. Very scary

I remember the 1998 incident in Michigan when I was about 9 years old. My family was camping right by Lake Michigan. Thankfully we were in a camper trailer and my dad was able to get the awning up before it got torn off or we got knocked over. That camper rocked back and forth pretty bad though! Definitely a scary experience as a kid. The next morning there were trees down EVERYWHERE around us with entire tents just destroyed. Most people in tents were able to get into their cars on time but one person in the campground tried to hold down their tent and were hit by a falling branch/tree and killed.

Cleveland native here, and Lakewood has the most awesome fireworks display.

Oh man you mentioning Dick Goddard gave me chills. I grew up watching him and vividly remember the 2012 storm on the news.

This was an impressive event! I live in west Tennessee, Memphis TN had a severe derecho event in July 2003, 100+ mph winds and widespread severe damage, it was definitely an impressive storm, derechos are unpredictable in nature i think, it was very odd that it occurred between 6-7 am

I just discovered this channel. I wasn’t there for the 1969 derecho in Ohio, but I’ve seen several. The latest was the June 2012 derecho in Virginia. And multiple other states. And the infamous 1999 derecho that hit the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, also on the 4th of July. It was like the end of the world. Great channel! I’m binge watching all I’ve missed.

We were at Cedar Point. The storm came in and me and my brother and cousins rode it out in my uncle's Country Squire station wagon. I was 4 yrs old. I remember heading to the car, My uncle turned to my dad and said "That is a wicked sky". the car rocked bad with the wind and blowing rain, And we were more excited, or mesmerized than scared. They folded the rear facing seat down and had us all get under blankets. I'm 59 years old now, My uncle, Aunt, Mom and Dad are no longer with us. Thanks for posting this very informative video !!!!

I was living in Fairfax, VA and working in Washington, DC when the derecho of 2012 came through. It was a pretty nasty line of storms with a lot of lightning and hail. Fairfax is in a geographic bowl so storms tend to head south towards Fredericksburg or north through Maryland. If a storm has enough energy to barrel through Fairfax, it’s going to typically have tornadic characteristics.

I'll have to ask my dad if he remembers this. Born in 1956 and lived in Aurora until 2000.

When that happened, I was in Vietnam and even my parents who lived in Kent, never wrote or said anything about this storm. Thanks for this video so that I can see what I missed, but in Vietnam, we were having a different kind of fireworks show. Love your channel.

What memories I was in both the 1969 and 2012 storms both very memorable to me.

After watching your video I met a man who was a park ranger in Michigan at the time. I asked him about it and he was so surprised to have someone remind him of it give him a chance to remember something he had all but forgotten about. He remembered all the trees coming down and one of the dams in the area collapsing.

I grew up in Lakewood and went to Lakewood park for fireworks every year growing up, my dad told me about this storm after we saw a ropey waterspout from a packed Lakewood stadium on a Friday night during a football game. In fact, I’m going to send him this video right now.

Port Clinton here, we also had very strong straight line winds. We had one fatality that I know of as a wind propelled branch went through a womans windshield and impaled her to the car seat

Incredible content as always, excited to see your channel grow

I remember it very well. The tree destruction was terrible. The next morning, I had to deliver newspapers, dodging trees and downed power lines along the way.

My parents lived through this on the western side of Lake Erie Southeast of Toledo. Both have said it was in the top 3 weather events they have lived through. I discovered this channel in recent days and I have to say you are doing a phenomenal job. Keep it up!

We had another July 4th storm when I was still living in Oberlin-probably '75 or '76. It was wild because in the morning it was clear as a bell, but you could hear thunder rumbling in the distance. I had never seen that before. Anyways, when the storm finally hit, my dad and I were on the front porch, and we heard what sounded like whoosh or the train sound, and for about 5 seconds, the winds became ferocious. Later dad was driving me into downtown Oberlin, but we couldn't get there-along College Street, one of the two East-West streets in Oberlin, was blocked from at least a dozen huge trees that had been around for decades, and had fallen across the road. Downtown, the roofing was ripped off a good portion of the business down there. It was determined that a funnel had passed overhead, but never touched the ground.

My Mom & Dad watched this storm roll in while sitting at Lakeview park in Lorain. They drove too my Grandparents home, where my grandfather told them to "get the hell inside the house"- just as shit started flying everywhere.

In July 2019 we had a high wind event here. I've never seen or experienced anything like it. Funny thing is I had an above ground pool that I'd surrounded with blue tarps. I figured they'd be blown to ribbons, but when the event ended, they were completely intact while on both sides and behind me, big trees had been blown over, and there was more damage in about a mile long by 1/4-mile-wide stretch running west to east. Apparently, it was a microburst and my home was the exact epicenter.

The extra time to make content is showing in extra quality man. Loved this one

I Grew up in north east Ohio. Was 14 years old and remember this event very well.

I was 7 years old when this happened...i was living in Lorain Ohio......my mother forced me and my siblings under a table at my grandfathers farm.......you couldn't see anything when that first hit the horses barn was about 100ft away and my grandfather couldn't find his way in...........Meanwhile my wife's father was in Cascade Park in Elyria with the 4H band preparing to play when this thing hit.....the rain came down so hard that the black river began to flood the park even before the storm made its way all the way through. It was something.

That derecho from Nebraska was from December 2021. I went into the cellar when that rolled through! Thanks for using our derecho as an example of what it looks like when it goes through. It happened at a time of year when you don't expect it.

I love that you cover these smaller events, especially as an Ohioan. We can have some pretty nasty weather! We’ve been lucky the past few years tho.

Great presentation! I wish I could follow more of the meteorological info you were sharing. I live down in Dayton and would be curious to know why some places are tornado magnets. Poor Xenia to our east has been clobbered several times!

BTW ... I lived on a sailboat, on Lake Erie(year round), near Sandusky from 2017-2022, and got hit with a lot of storm experience ...

Damn knowing you are from Cleveland, and still a part of the community here just makes this channel that much better. What an awesome explanation video about such a tragic event. I will have to ask my grandma, and aunt if they remember this storm as they lived on west 65th almost on the lake at the time. Keep up the amazing work brother, this Cleveland native is sure going to continue to watch!

I was too young to remember the event,but my family lived on Belle Ave., a street directly in the storms path. Residents grabbed anyone walking up the street and hurried them into their basements. many complete strangers.After the storm was over, the residents stood on their porch and yelled house to house which people were with them so families could find out where their loved ones were. Huge trees covered the street.A large tree took out our entire garage. As you mention in your video, no one at Lakewood Park was prepared for something like this, including the Lakewood Police Force.Firework goers were parked in lines on the grass at the edge of the park farthest from the lake, and as the storm hit, Lakewood PD herded scattering people into these random cars.

Although my family is from New Jersey, my father's job transferred him to Cleveland a few years prior, and we were living in Lakewood at the time, within 1 mile up the street from Lakewood Park. Me and a few of my friends were in the 4th of July parade in Lakewood that year. There was a chance of thunder showers in the weather forecast. As we were leaving for the parade, upon hearing the forecast in the radio, one of my friends said, "We won't let it rain, we'll just say, " Clouds, clouds, stay away!" Although it started out nice, during the parade it began to get cloudy. A storm did come through in the early afternoon, but nothing out of the ordinary. That storm did pass, and the sun appeared to be coming out. It seemed as if the fireworks would go on after all. Late in the afternoon, we had our TV set on, and then weather forecaster Wally Kinnin said "There might be a stray thunder shower in the area, but not enough to cancel any plans. Go ahead to the fireworks." We were outside playing when the sky toward Lake Erie began to look ominous. My father called us in, and when we asked him what was up, he replied, "Because it's going to rain." We had planned to go to the park for the fireworks, but the sky grew more and more threatening. My mother said that it looked like it would be more than just a stray thunder shower. Lightning began flashing frequently and vividly. Some neighbors of ours who lived a few houses down the street began to head for the park, and just as they got to the bottom step if their front porch, the storm suddenly hit with 100+ mph winds and blinding torrential rain. They struggled to get back in their house, and watch trees blow down. NY mother began to run all over our house trying to close all the windows. Our front door blew open a few times. What a terrifying experience. Every year, toward the end of July, they held an event in Lakewood Park, called Lakewood Day, which featured bounce houses, merry go rounds, games, a ferris wheel, and other fun rides. Thus would be a one day event in the middle of the last week in July. Lakewood Day in 1969 was when they rescheduled the fireworks, as it took many days to clean up all the trees and limbs. The day after the storm, with no electricity on anywhere, my mother was afraid to let us go out of our yard, afraid there might be live wires under all the blown down trees.

Thanks for posting this. It is a weather event that, surprisingly has not had the documentation it deserves.

Watching from Bratenahl. Fantastic video and channel. Dick Goddard and my old friend Don Webster would be proud of your vast amount of knowledge and presentation on this subject.

Hey dude! Been watching your videos since a month ago. You’re cool to us! Didn’t know this happened almost 53 years ago.

It was a very hot and sultry day that day in Pittsburgh, where I was living. The sky had a strange yellow hue as well. As soon as our fireworks show ended, more apparent fireworks continued over the horizon. I had never seen this before, after watching many July 4th shoes. Soon a massive shelf cloud opened above the horizon. I went to the main street at hill top Within 10 minutes, just as I arrived, the strongest storm I'd been outside in up till then blasted through. Winds hit up to 80 mph. Rain didn't even hit the street for a few minutes. Within 15 minutes, the event had ended, leaving amazing anvil lightning. Temperatures dropped from the 80s to the mid 60s.

I was in one of these once. It was like a tornado but no funnel cloud. I was on an interstate highway and suddenly the wind was so hard hundreds of tree branches from the woods which was a half mile away and other debris started flying past very fast going completely horizontal. You couldn't see two feet past your hood. The rain was not falling, but going horizontal. It felt and looked like being in a car wash. All the cars on the highway tried to squeeze under the overpasses and parked. 10 minutes later it was over.

Even though I have never been to Ohio, this event still interests me

I learned about this from my 93 year old neighbor. His memory is insanely good

My parents tell me about this Tornado once in awhile. They were at the fireworks at Lakewood park. The winds were so string that my brother and sister nearly blew away had it not been for my uncle jimmy hanging on to them. From what I remember, my dad only had a VW bug at the time and it was getting shaken around like a beer can Somewhat Recently a storm that feels like it should have been considered a Derecho hit Parma Ohio. Water was coming through my sealed windows. The hail was the size of baseballs, but was falling so heavily it looked like a blizzard. It came on so damn suddenly too. I have a 2 minute video recording on my phone of that storm. You can visually watch how bad it gets. A tree I focused on within about 15 seconds was completely faded into nothingness. Also i remember the weather forcast that day... Zero chances of rain. I was watching weather radars, and between Brookpark OH to Parma you can literally watch it form

In my area it was a hot sunny day on July 4th 1969. The worst Derecho I ever experienced was on June 2nd 1989 a half hour I just came home from buying a Boom box. We got 1-2 inch hailstones and winds over 80 MPH. There was massive tree lost.

The June 29th, 2012 derecho I distinctly remember. We had a tower erected right outside the front of our house, where we had a wireless internet transmitter for broadband internet at the time. My brother was standing right by the door when he saw the wind pick up, and saw the wind blow leaves in a swirling fashion right outside our door. Our power went out that night, and wasn't restored until the following day. But when the sun came out, our tower was leaning partially on our house. If it had been built just a few inches further away, it would have collapsed on us. We had to have it rigged up on trees for support until we could finally tear it down. It wasn't a good night, and I've been afraid of the wind ever since.

I never want to go through a derecho again. I'm too young for the '69 storm but I will never forget the 2012. I really though a tree was going to fall on my car or the car was going to flip. I had just went to the gas station and filled my car up for a trip to see family the next day. I live in WV and we were without power for 14 days. The stores were bare and the wait at city gas stations was hours in certain places. Some gas stations ran out of gas. I very much felt sympathy for people who live in hurricane prone areas and go through this more than once.

I remember this well! I was only 6 but I was with my dad- he was picking up a couple last minute food items at the Open Pantry convenience store at Lincoln & Madison when it approached. What I remember (and only one other person I know remembers this) is the intense branch lightning as if from a Hollywood movie. That storm chased us down Woodward and we ran into the house and moments later the power went out. A huge limb fell from the big elm in the back. We were without power for 3 days. And yes, there were waves of storms that followed, each taking another crack at us (and at that elm- a second limb fell with one of the following storms). Thanks for doing these! Great job

Outstanding work- do not stop!!!

My dad was a kid when this storm hit they were out at the Wayne county fairgrounds for the 4th of July. He said it was the only time in 40 years the basement of their house in Orrville flooded.

Lived in Champion, just north of Warren ( about 8 miles) in Trumbull county. I was 12 at the time. My mom and sisters were home when it hit, dad was at work. There were huge oak trees around the house and to the east and south was a large patch of forest…you could hear the trees cracking and limbs falling, no power, huge limbs came down and blocked the driveway, but the house and barn were spared! I can remember lots of lightning…not sure if 5hat was from the event or the thunderstorms that followed. It was still storming when dad got home from work ( was working the afternoon shift at a steel mill about 20 plus miles SE of home), we were worried be Ouse he was late coming home and then no way to get in the driveway due to huge limbs blocking access and huge ditches on either side of the drive. Power lines swayed over the drive and ditches….we were afraid he would get electrocuted if he got out of the car and the lines fell. Really a scary time, being a kid and all!

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Thank you for covering this storm! I find this derecho event fascinating!

I love how you explain the weather. Thanks

I was 12 years old at the time, living in Fremont. My dad, along with me and my brother were just finishing chores and closing down a barn where we were taking care of 3 horses. Before we left for home, we could already see that the weather was looking very bad. This was in the evening, sometime between 7pm and 8pm. It already started raining and blowing, so we got doused on our way in to our home. This storm did not let up, even slightly for at least 6 hours. It had stopped by around 4am, as I recall. Beside all the torrential rain and wind, I remember constant lightning, with frequent close strikes. Obviously, nobody slept that night. The next day, brought unbelievable sights of destruction and flooding. Our basement had 3 to 4 feet of water, mixed with sewage. To this day, I have never experienced any storm quite like July 4th, 1969.

Lived in Lorain County all my life and actually never heard about this incident. My grandparents were living in Lakewood around that time. I will definitely have to ask them about their experience! I always enjoy watching your videos, and always excited when a new one comes out. Keep up the fantastic work!!

My youngest son who is 27 and must have been bored at work sent me a text asking me if I remembered this storm. I told him yes. I was 9. I told him we were camping with friends and it just came up and it was bad. We had a small crank up camper. 5 kids, our dog and my parents were all in there as it rocked like it would take off. Our friend had a pop-up camper. It was destroyed. There were maybe 8 in their family and they hid in their car which was almost destroyed too. I remember hearing that a young boy was running with his sister and a tree fell on him and killed him. It was terrifying. Our friends had to go home, we went on to Maine.

Great video as usual dude! Always happy to see a new video from you!

I was in the thick of it in Sandusky ohio..myself and a couple of my friends were out trying to rescue people..every thing was under flood waters..all and all it was bad, but at the same time we were having a blast.. what a day .. :))

If you can you should make a video about the tornadoes spawned by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ida on September 1st, 2021. It was a crazy day and it spawned an EF-3 15 minutes from where I live. Maybe it would be worth a video.

Here in Tioga County NY we dealt with a damaging microburst on July 7, 2021. That was bad enough; I really can't wholly imagine enduring a full derecho. As I've said before, I really like your thorough presentations and being able to have your mother this time as a resource must have been a treat for you. You do a great job including local flavor or details on these reports, beyond the basic storm information.

I remember the 2012 derecho well. Luckily I was traveling with family, so we were not in the area when the storm struck. However, we had returned home I believe a day or two after it had happened, and you could still see the damage. My house had some damage to the porch roof and the trees around it, but that was nothing compared to the dance studio my sister attends. Their roof was torn completely off the building.

Love the quality video man, great as always!

Finding out your from Cleveland is awesome!!

These videos deserve more views and I have no doubt you are about to take off. Original channel, original idea, and interesting content. I like it a lot man.

I love that you pronounce Cuyahoga correctly. I hope you also use the word "treelawn." 😁

I just discovered you a lil while ago and ur my favorite yt rn keep up the Wednesday and Friday vidsssss letsss gooooo I'm sooo hyped

You have a great way to speak and explain your videos. Keep up the great work

I find your content super informative and knowledgeable on weather.. great job!!!

Can’t sleep so I’m on a weatherbox binge 👍 such an underrated channel ❤️

This man is the "Scott the Woz" of weather

I would love to see a dive into the 2012 derecho. It went thru my town in Missouri and i'll never forget it

I'm glad you took extra time to upload this. Had you uploaded it a week ago I would have been even more angry about oklahoma weather. We just had a 41 day drought which is unusual in june-july. We finally got rain in Tulsa yesterday and the rest of the state (aside from the pan handle) got some today and they had a few little storms over the week. But man was it nice to see rain yesterday. Had their not been high winds and lightning I would have gone out running in it.

Phenomenal job buddy thank you 🌪️

I was just a kid in Lorain when the storm hit. We saw the storm over the lake while driving home from our family reunion. My memory is a little foggy but I remember it lasting all night and my parents stayed up in case things got out of hand. Luckily for us, it wasn’t too bad (compared to others).

I just discovered your channel and I absolutely love it keep it up dude

I remember that storm very well I was 10 years old we were going to see the travel to see the fireworks at the park and also my father decide hey it looks bad out there we better turn around and go home the minute we got home it came down the next morning how many trees were down you couldn't go down any the streets because of all the trees that were down or you could hear was chainsaws for the next 2 or 3 days it was a very scary event

great video man, i love this channel

I was 6yrs old remember every minute. We where at my uncles for a BBQ in Toledo as the self cloud approach my dad said let’s go now! We where 5 mins from home. As we pulled in driveway the sirens started small hail,he had us go to basement ASAP .Then the gust front arrival. House was shaking my Dad was upstairs and I wanted to go up with him, moms pulling back down the steps at 6 yrs old I had no concept of the danger no fear. That was the trigger for WX . After it passed it went stationary all along the boundary it was dumping 2-3in hr of rain totaled 12-16in we had to move from basement due to water it didn’t stop until 7am. That was the beginning of 54 yrs of WX Bug by April 3rd 74 was hooked.

Ive experienced 2 Derecho's as a 20 year old. The first one scared the shit out of me because even as a guy who knows weather very well, I didnt know what the hell was happening. then we had one a year later in December again. Iowa weather has been so weird the last few years.

It is so weird living in Ohio and trying to predict weather. Because of just the sheer amount of factors that this state holds. Wants 4 seasons in one week? We gotcha.

I remember Barberton being under snow in 1974. It was crazy looking.