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Time lapse from Monday. Might take a bit for 4K to be available, as sometimes it takes an hour or so to be fully ready. Shot at wide angle, so looks best on full screen. EDIT: I left in a decent amount of footage before the storm hit to illustrate how nice and peaceful the day had been. Storm hits around 2 min mark.

Power came back on about 10am, so total outage was about 92hrs. Working on time lapse now. Made it to 88 here, but not too humid.

Here's a vid from a little northwest of here near Fulton. Lots of trees blocking the main route north/south. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3469861626392139&id=100001050069622

I was inside so not sure.

Nice! I was too chickenshit to watch out the west facing window, so I watched out the front (east side). It was quite still and very warm/humid as the shelf cloud rolled in overhead. Then there was a slight bit of breeze and a slight feeling of cooler air, perhaps 15mph wind as things began to stir. You could really sense the tension, something big was coming. Then the main wind hit so fast it startled me, even though I was ready for it. BAM!!! The front tree bent way over and looked like it was about to shear right off, but luckily it held. That same initial gust destroyed the neighbor across the street's walnut tree. After that first big gust it stayed pretty windy, but sort of run-of-the-mill squall line stuff- 50-55mph. The heavy rain hit but the winds didn't really get much stronger, still 50-55mph type stuff. It was after the heavy rain from the squall line moved on when the consistent 60-70mph winds rolled in. It really reminded me of how it's like when you get strong wake low winds. Very strong winds with light rain falling after the main storm, but in this case the winds were still from the same direction, and WAY stronger than a wake low wind event. That continued for a good 45 minutes before finally winding down.

Yeah salvaged some items with a big cooler and free ice from the gas station which was cool of them ( no pun intended lol). Com Ed still has 11pm tomorrow night restoration estimate. There was a very large uprooted tree that took down the wires a few streets over that had laid untouched until today. The tree is now gone but all the wires are still spaghetti'd through several front yards. I'm guessing that's the last holdup.

Yeah as bad as it was here in the QCA it was way worse there. We prob topped out around 75mph max here, maybe 80, and CR was at or over 100mph which is a huge difference damage wise.

Gotta wait till power comes back lol

All the neighbors do. The fridge/freezer stuff is history. Will prob invest in a cheap one to at least keep that going for next time.

jinx

Night #3 without power. At least it's cool and dry at night so fresh cool air blows in the windows. The Sat estimate for restoration has been changed to Fri. Sounds like many areas around including much of the QC is already back in power so I'm hoping when I get home from work tomorrow it's back.

Power still out here. The estimated day of restoration is Saturday. Hope that's wrong!

Power out here, going on 9hrs. Was in the QC all evening. Pitch black everywhere there too with pretty much the entire area still without power. Can't ever remember seeing such a wide expanse of damage. Usually after you have a severe storm when you drive around afterwards you come across areas hit hard, then go through areas where there's nothing. In this case everywhere you go there's significant tree damage and in some cases roads blocked off from trees and or power lines. This event will be hard to top.

Never seen anything like this. Still getting 55mph gusts quite frequently. Wind has been blowing from the west-northwest the entire time (over an hour.)

Ma nature was like ORLY?

One for the ages bros. Feel fortunate to have only lost one tree so far. Immediately slammed with 70mph+ gusts. Then a lull of only 55mph winds, and now have had 60-70mph winds for at least a half hour. Still going. No power.

MLI now gusted to 77mph. No additional report from the DVN ASOS. Might have been knocked offline. EDIT: Extremely impressive stacked shelf cloud rolling up quick on west horizon..

The sirens are sounding here now. Sitting at 88/76 right now with near calm conditions. MLI just gusted to 68mph, and DVN RSOIS gusted to 75mph. Should be here in 10 mins or so.

Time lapse is rolling. Enjoying the final hour of electricity. Looks like a good shot at 70mph+ winds by 2pm. Very impressive and scary wind reports all along the I-80/highway 30 corridor.

Ankeny (KIKV) 78mph.

Des Moines just officially gusted to 75mph at DSM.

Yeah that was a great call to be sure.

The discussion on that MD was top notch. Saving that one. Very impressive rear-inflow jet already at nearly 100kts.

Carroll Iowa AWOS gusted to 74mph shortly after 10am. Pretty impressive.

Nice wake low on back side of the MCS. Sioux City has northeast winds gusting to 53mph. EDIT: Looks like they hit 55mph shortly after 9:30am.