***Official 2023 Weather Thread***

[1UNI2ISU]

I wouldn’t go with any contractor your agent recommends without at least getting a second quote from another well known contractor

Agreed if you mean adjuster, they're usually not local. Any half way decent agent is trustworthy on that, they live in the community and have had work done too.

 

[madguy30]

Working its way up to me but most stuff is south.

Radar makes it look like the wintery stuff is eating the rain/thunder.

 

[cowgirl836]

Working its way up to me but most stuff is south.

Radar makes it look like the wintery stuff is eating the rain/thunder.

Thundering here but it never warmed today or cleared so I'd be surprised to see much.

 

[madguy30]

Thundering here but it never warmed today or cleared so I'd be surprised to see much.

Got a lunch down near Verona at 1ish PM and it felt like a humid May afternoon. 2 hours later the temps had dropped.

 

[cowgirl836]

Got a lunch down near Verona at 1ish PM and it felt like a humid May afternoon. 2 hours later the temps had droped.

Wow. I think we topped at 53. That's not like 20 mi as the Crow flies

 

[madguy30]

Wow. I think we topped at 53. That's not like 20 mi as the Crow flies

Temp may have been around there but the humidity was definitely a factor.

 

[stormchaser2014]

Wow. I think we topped at 53. That's not like 20 mi as the Crow flies

It was 71 down here.

 

[cmjh10]

Coralville got hit hard

 

[FDWxMan]

Northerners have an advantage with basements to go to. But, that doesn't matter when you are watching it come right at you from your living room window. The lack of respect for these storms always baffle me.

Basements are big, also much higher poverty levels...higher concentration of mobile homes.

And there is still a socioeconomic correlation to whether these warnings are reaching people/folllowed through on, from a few of the talks presented at the Central Iowa NWA severe storms conference on Ankeny.

 

[stormchaser2014]

That was an intense 5 minutes. Yes, I'm talking about the weather.

 

[stormchaser2014]

I got concerned for a few seconds when I saw the rain go horizontal.

 

[BCClone]

That was an intense 5 minutes. Yes, I'm talking about the weather.

 

[cowgirl836]

I was told 94 was the line for the worst and it's getting tested right now......

 

[cowgirl836]

I got concerned for a few seconds when I saw the rain go horizontal.

Sounds like one on ground east of you

 

[ClonerJams]

There is a long running joke on Des Moines reddit about the '801 weather deflector'. Basically storms seem to split when they hit Des Moines, so the top of 801 Grand has a special device to break up the storm. It appears it worked today

 

[JP4CY]

My agent has recommended TMJ in the past and I think Hansen’s is also good. Any others? BTW any damage we have is light. But we also have an old roof so who knows.

TMJ is very well known.
Hedrick
Waddle

 

[stormchaser2014]

Sounds like one on ground east of you

Doogs just mentioned my town, but it's already gone.

 

[cowgirl836]

Doogs just mentioned my town, but it's already gone.

Doogs is my fave

 

[BigJCy]

Wynne, Arkansas

 

[stuclone]

There is a long running joke on Des Moines reddit about the '801 weather deflector'. Basically storms seem to split when they hit Des Moines, so the top of 801 Grand has a special device to break up the storm. It appears it worked today

I didn’t see anything other than some wind and a few sprinkles in Ankeny