My lawn would be a foot high if I didn't mow it twice a week right now. If you think that's anal, well it's probably good for both of us that we're not neighbors.
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Quite the little storm that moved through Story County. Seemed like 70 mph winds. Saw there was a warning.
I don't even know what that is.
And great a micro burst or similar just popped up now too
What the hell was that? I came upstairs from a workout and my deck furniture is blowing across the yard. Like a mini derecho here in north Ankeny.
A 3 minute wind storm and as I was looking in the the back yard and see a big branch go down about 50 feet away from me.. So typical.
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Branches are down all over. Eerily similar to the derecho from a couple years ago.
They are surge protectors for your breaker box. Will take the zap instead of the breakers. I have them in most of my stuff. A couple hundred bucks but once something gets hit by lightning it never seems to be completely right again
Happened in Johnston, too. Me, while starting the grill, “I didn’t see this coming.” And I proceeded to shut down that grill.
And crack open another beer for good measure.
The storm that just went through here just went tornado warned. Thought about it, but it's too dark...
It has stormed 4+ times here today. Keep initiating over us, fun to watch them build. Decent hail (2nd hail of the day) on a warned one an hour ago. But one that was forming just east had some weird rotation as it was forming. See there's a couple tornado warnings east now. This was further north but not surprised. I took pics cause it looked very sus even as a little thing
KidSilverhair
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Just blasted through Cedar Rapids now. We were sitting watching TV when it suddenly started blasting what seemed like 60-mph winds. My wife freaked out and insisted we needed to move our plants that we bought Sunday up next to the house so they don’t blow over.
Had no clue at all that was coming.
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We were outside until a few min ago planting flowers. Wife got back around 6pm from her annual trip to Kalona. I'm in the garage now. It's windy
Give us a warning before posting something that excitable
At one point last summer in July or August when everything was dead and brown my neighbor was out mowing the little green circle underneath his crabapple tree.
