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
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.
Pick them up and keep driving away, come back after it wears out.so this is your fault.
I'm trying to check on the timing here......neither daycare nor elementary school have basements. Solid buildings with at least some brick structure to them but ugh. Not loving this. I suppose with derecho I'd have some lead time to go get them.
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.
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.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.
Pick them up and keep driving away, come back after it wears out.
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.
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.Drought monitor says you are lying.
It looks like kcci says the nastier of the storms is in the 3 to 8pm range which makes me feel a little better!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.
Doug of Oakland has always been up to no good.Possible tornado Doug of Oakland Iowa, hail between Treynor to Neola, ping pong sized.