Well crap, looks like I am leaving for Columbus, NE tomorrow at 5 AM. That's going to make a long day when I'll get home from racing around 3 AM. I really need to find someone who can drive the hauler to go with me to some of these races.
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Feel like we have a couple storms per year were the word 'derecho' gets thrown around. None of them come close to resembling the storm in 2020.
Got water in my basement in WDM with 3.5 inches in my rain gauge overnight.
Surprised Ankeny isn't running the sirens yet...
Anyone know of a place my son could park his pickup during the storm?
He's a student at ISU, but would come to Ankeny. I'm guessing Costco after they close and before they open. Not sure if they monitor or not. He's worried about hail.
One of my window wells started filling up and water came in through the window. Luckily it was the one in the unfinished part of the basement and closest to the floor drain. Only had to move a rug and couple of totes.
Had that happen several years ago. I built up that area with dirt and made sure it had plenty of mulch on it and haven't had that issue since.
I’m on this current trip about how people are so traumatized they think every potential “derecho” will be like the big one. That was an extreme occasion. They are going to have to start rating derechos pretty soon to get the derecho noise under control.
And maybe they can just do it by estimated max wind speed instead of stupid damage assessments.
No. Violet and indigo are on the other end of the rainbow. So they must be less severe than even the green and blue. There’s no way a scientist like a meteorologist would screw up something as basic as ROYGBIV.
I had that happen in 2019. Only the entire window well filled up with water (windows must have had a great seal) and eventually burst. Unluckily for me it was a finished basement (guest room). About 10k of damage, insurance paid out nothing (water originated outside of the house).
I've replaced the flat drain that was clogged with a dome shaped grate and had our entire back yard re-graded. The city also redid the grading behind our property (where the water came from to begin with).
If your ponds aren’t full now, you have something wrong with your ponds.
Parking at the MU ramp for 24 hrs is $20. That is always an optionSurprised Ankeny isn't running the sirens yet...
Anyone know of a place my son could park his pickup during the storm?
It is important to remember the 2020 derecho was an extreme ESPECIALLY for those of us in Iowa and the CR area. It did not produce those winds for it's entire duration.
Paul Douglas just mentioned the D-word here in Mpls. Doesn't carry the same weight as it does now for you guys after 2020 but it caught my eye.
We spoke to our real estate agent in Bloomfield this morning and she said they had 4 inches, with some wind. Went by our house for sell, she was worried the basement had water, but she said it was dry, no water and everything looked good.
When the 2020 derecho hit, wasn't it only like the second or third one in 20 years or something? Now predictions of derechos seem to get dropped pretty regularly.
