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Daughter just asked me a question about office set up. I said I never put my back to where someone can come in behind me.
I also had to add that was due to me being a manager and a loan officer where people had came into colleagues offices with guns and mine with knives so I may have the self preservation situation also on key.
I also had to add that was due to me being a manager and a loan officer where people had came into colleagues offices with guns and mine with knives so I may have the self preservation situation also on key.
We're struggling to get moisture back into central Iowa on Friday for afternoon/evening t-storms. This is a double edged sword. It largely diminishes the chance of tornadoes in central Iowa as it forces the bottom of the storm higher in the sky. But at the same time the drier air under the storm to the surface will help maximize the wind potential from storms. Basically... it's already a windy day, it won't take much for storms to push things even higher.
Damaging wind is the biggest threat as storms race across the state. Development happens over southern/central Iowa around 4PM and radiate north/northeast through 8PM.
Can't rule out a stray tornado. Certain t-storm interactions could make conditions just perfect, but I just don't see it at a widespread level.
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Damaging wind is the biggest threat as storms race across the state. Development happens over southern/central Iowa around 4PM and radiate north/northeast through 8PM.
Can't rule out a stray tornado. Certain t-storm interactions could make conditions just perfect, but I just don't see it at a widespread level.
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Thanks for the info! Any chance of derecho type of winds?? Still have PTSD from that.
In office I hate having my back to the entry (as someone who has only ever lived in cube land). Also, I despise the "modern". "collaborative" spaces with low walls and everyone walking by can see everything. I like my personal space and would get distracted by people constantly walking by etc.
First, my apologies I thought I was in the RTT thread. Didn’t mean to put it here.
I never had the gun come it, that was a colleague. He his under his desk and the guy kept looking. The knives I’d just talk down. The worst was the special needs folks when they would start swinging them. We needed box cutters or different cutting knives so everyone had one.
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TBH I'll take damaging winds and a derecho over a tornado any day, I was in Ames during the August 2020 derecho and it was a little scary but looking back, it wasn't that bad (though we lost power and now that I have a sump pump it's more concerning).
Meanwhile the EF4 tornadoes that hit Winterset 2022, Keota 2023, Elkhorn and Greenfield especially 2024 really ****** me up mentally and are the main impetus for me to leave Iowa before Ames gets hit with one of those...
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You weren’t in Cedar Rapids in August 2020. That was close to tornado damage over the entire city. We went without power for 10 days in my neighborhood. I know of at least four houses within a three block radius of my house that had trees come down on them, and you can extrapolate that over the entire city. Trees lost all over town - 65% of the city’s trees were blown down or had to be cut down because of storm damage.
I was trapped in my car along Highway 30 near Belle Plaine when it went through. I seriously thought I might die. The wind roared for what seemed like forever - it was probably 20-30 minutes of nonstop hurricane-force winds.
I don’t think I’d prefer a tornado to a derecho, but from what I experienced, there‘s very little difference between the two, and a derecho can affect many more people over a much wider area. I sure don’t want to experience that ever again.
The derecho probably did as much damage as 30 tornadoes that day.
My parents live in old school Marion neighborhood and the derecho f*cked them up big time. I drove over the next day and it was surreal. A tornado usually leaves a relatively narrow path of massive destruction. The CR derecho left a city-wide path of massive destruction, 130,000+ without power for a week or more in the middle of August.
It was scary as **** when I woke up at 10:30-11 a.m. to the sirens going and my bedroom still being pitch black.
What normally would take 10-15 minutes to get from the NE side of town to the SW side of town, took over an hour after the Derecho went through in Cedar Rapids. Roads block. Trees down, wires down, no working traffic lights... Finding working gas stations in the city was impossible. We were lucky, we found one in Tiffin, just outside of Iowa City. So much clean up.
Those ears have some serious infection going on!
