8/10 weather

[GMackey32]

Can you adopt my children before I kill them?

How old are we talking?

 

[3TrueFans]

How old are we talking?

6 and 13, I’ll let em go cheap.

 

[JM4CY]

6 and 13, I’ll let em go cheap.

How do they feel about manual labor?

 

[enisthemenace]

Had the garage door blown in, 2 70-ft tall trees ripped out of the ground in my yard, no power for 30 hours. Headed to the in-laws house sleep with AC tonight.

I would sleep with cows in a shallow farm pond before going to my inlaws.

In all seriousness, i hope things get moving quickly for y’all over there. Heard it’s a mess in M-town.

 

[GMackey32]

6 and 13, I’ll let em go cheap.

I got a bunch of river rock that needs moved. This is enticing.

 

[enisthemenace]

Anybody have any report from Boone? I’m supposed to play Honey Creek in the AM tomorrow. I called them this morning and asked if they were OK and planning on being up and running, and they said they were, but...

 

[tim_redd]

6 and 13, I’ll let em go cheap.

They got good livers and kidneys?

 

[motorcy90]

if people supported and respected cop sirens more we wouldn’t have a need for weather sirens. Think on that for a minute Lib.

leave it to you to bring politics into this... really shows your colors else where here too.

I was over in Marion most of today helping parents start digging out. It's a surreal scene. Seriously looks like a hurricane went through. Heading north on 13 barns were collapsed, big grain bins were flattened. Roofs and siding on houses gone. There are so many big old trees laying on literally every street, some pulled up by the roots with concrete sidewalks still attached. Everywhere you look there are widowmakers, massive tree limbs balancing up high on the trunk or barely hanging on. On the drive back I saw several small convoys of bucket trucks heading east on 80, hopefully that will speed up getting power back. It's a mess.

figured south of 20 seemed to be the cut off point for damages almost. not much up here north of it but south a bit you start to here more and more, aunt and uncle even came up here looking for gas as a lot of places in and around CR are out of power/backed up etc... most of my family in the area seem to have escaped major damage to their homes at least. try'd to see if my aunt and uncle in midway needed anything but sounds like they have had plenty of help so far.

 

[cycub51]

I live just south of 20 and we had one stick in our yard but no power for 24 hours. 5-10 miles south and it is amazingly bad. Pleasantly surprised we got power back today.

 

[cowgirl836]

Can you adopt my children before I kill them?

get them on bikes or a hamster wheel or something. Burn that energy and give you some cell phone %

 

[cowgirl836]

I got a bunch of river rock that needs moved. This is enticing.

2 year old and the neighbor toddler spent a solid 5 minutes swiping all the river rock off the top of the drain in our driveway and into the tube. Husband hasn't noticed yet. But yeah, kids will love that. River rock is awful.

 

[GMackey32]

2 year old and the neighbor toddler spent a solid 5 minutes swiping all the river rock off the top of the drain in our driveway and into the tube. Husband hasn't noticed yet. But yeah, kids will love that. River rock is awful.

I have a whole rock bed that I’m removing rocks from. I want to landscape and fill with mulch. Moving the rock is half the problem, finding a home for it is the other half.

 

[ianoconnor]

Mediacom internet down going on 30 hours here in Urbandale.

 

[cowgirl836]

I have a whole rock bed that I’m removing rocks from. I want to landscape and fill with mulch. Moving the rock is half the problem, finding a home for it is the other half.

put landscape fabric underneath unless you plan to switch up where plants go. Moving rock is the worst.

K, back to hurricane updates. It qualifies as a Cat 2 windspeed I think.

 

[CRcyclone6]

Our silo just outside CR towards Palo...

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Our silo just outside CR towards Palo...

They make medicine for that. Don't be too proud to ask your doctor

 

[nfrine]

They make medicine for that. Don't be too proud to ask your doctor

Hopefully, that medicine will be long-lasting.

 

[Cycsk]

The NWS had forecast the greater likelihoods of severe weather being in eastern Iowa and Illinois, but this was always a possibility.

Usually, we have threads for days in anticipation of a storm that may not even come. This thread wasn't started until after 11am (after the storm had already hit).

 

[theshadow]

Crop damage visible from satellite (look for the swaths of lighter green).

 

[baller21]

Usually, we have threads for days in anticipation of a storm that may not even come. This thread wasn't started until after 11am (after the storm had already hit).

I was shocked myself. Don’t think anyone was expecting it to be that bad