***Official 2024 Weather Thread***
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Yup. Quick glance at the gauge at 30 west of Tama shows it two feet below it's historic crest. Now that is a decent size valley so two feet is a crap load of water.
Not that it should matter, but Greenfield gets a preliminary EF4 175-185.
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On Sunday, Bradley Gebbie graduated from Nodaway High School in Greenfield, Iowa where he played for the golf team. On Tuesday, an EF-3 twister swept through his town and flipped his world upside down...
People still have lives to get things done and there are a lot of people who don't follow the news or daily weather besides knowing it's supposed to storm for the day. People were also probably on their way home at that time as well.
Same for streaming services, I use Pandora/Spotify more than anything. I was just getting on the road to head home when it was hitting Greenfield didn't know about it until I was home, granted I was on the east side of the state Tuesday.
There is road work being done on highway 63 from just south of Tama all the way to highway 6,a stretch of about 15 miles. Locals can't go thru Chelsea as the road is now flooded over there too. Gonna be a mess there for some time.
Sure hope they have the George Strait stage anchored down. High winds forecasted early tomorrow morning for Ames.
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Dang…. they are going to destroy that beautiful grass…. sucks! Especially with all the rain tomorrow.
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I just quit the news on the local channels due to constant coverage of she who shall not be named. Weather Channel cued me in and I put on WOI as the least likely to interrupt a tornado with CC coverage.
Katrina was like this, except the opposite. What you saw from the sky paled in comparison to what things were like on the ground. Wards / entire neighborhoods were destroyed with water lines at the bases of roofs (~8 ft high). Even 18+ months after the fact, NO wasn’t even back to 50% of their pre hurricane population.
Oh boy. I understand the desire to avoid the constant CC coverage, but The Weather Channel is awful. I like to watch during blizzards and hurricanes, purely for the self aggrandizing, over-indulgence, but other than that, they suck.
Not sure if anyone has posted a link for donations for the Greenfield Tornado Relief Fund yet but here it is in case anyone wants to help.
Barn Town also kicking in a portion of some of their draft beer for the next 10 days.
Barn Town also kicking in a portion of some of their draft beer for the next 10 days.
They did this for Perry (after the shooting) as well with rootbeer.Not sure if anyone has posted a link for donations for the Greenfield Tornado Relief Fund yet but here it is in case anyone wants to help.
Barn Town also kicking in a portion of some of their draft beer for the next 10 days.
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I called in and bought a couple packs and told them to give it to a cop and they actually said the Perry police chief is a regular.
Good people at Barntown.
I have kids in three different states so I at least have a clue if damn Canadian forest fires are going to give one of them an asthma attack. One in NJ sent me an eye roll emoji when I told him to take his rescue inhaler to work, then sheepishly told me he needed to use it.
Haven't watched that channel since the derecho, when they were reporting live from "Grand Rapids" (Cedar Rapids) and basically making fun of people who compared it to a hurricane.
I live along the Iowa River and where I am it’s as high as it’s ever been in the 10 years I’ve been here. Crazy considering 2 months or so ago there were sandbars everywhere and you couldn’t kayak/tube down it at all.
