Be safe today everyone. Keep a close eye and ear to weather alerts. This has the potential to be the biggest severe weather day of the year for central and eastern IA
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It looks like the overnight update now includes most of Iowa in the more extreme tornado risk... Is it totally over reactive to pull my first grader out of school early today? I always get a little paranoid when the storms are during the school day.
Plaza Towers Elementary 2013. Definitely not over-reactive. The worst can happen and has happened before.
Personally I would say overreactive, school protection areas are usually pretty good.
But I'm old the one year( like maybe 5th grade?) Went to school blizzard picked up the school was going to have us stay overnight in the gym, about 430-5 storm broke and they sent us all home on the busses. LOL.
Really do whatever makes you feel best.
I think there’s a good possibility schools will send kids home early. They don’t want to have kids on busses if storms are rolling through.
I need to check timing again because I think the initial round is less severe for us. Elementary school is single digit years old. However, I have family planning to drive nearly end to end hwy 20 up to NWIA and I'm wondering if they need to try and delay a day. Theyd be leaving early this morning from dubuque area.
My belief is that you have to be underground to get to that 90% survival rate in a mid range EF4-E5. Most schools don’t have the ability to make that happen.
All sharp objects are underwater and I can’t find them.
I had to drive through the worst of it after the kids game last night to check on something. 30 mph and could barely see the road at times on the way up, 90 minutes later it was identical on the way back.
It looks like kcci says the nastier of the storms is in the 3 to 8pm range which makes me feel a little better!
3” rain Sunday into Monday, around 4-5” last night. More on the way. School cancelled in Newton. Yikes.
Raining like a cow ####### on a flat rock For all you oldsters who grew up in rural Iowa
Doug of Oakland has always been up to no good.
