Worst Derecho in recorded history. See church roof explode, stop signs flattened to the ground. Boom
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- (Dealing with a Natural Disaster during the Covid Epidemic)
-this is a compilation video of all my derecho videos into one, with some commentary audio overlay; i also sped up some of the fun parts to watch in person but not so much on video...overall 40 min long and trimmed out about 40 minutes of time/idle footage
Me‐ This is loud. Let me turn down the volume.
This guy- Turn up your volume.
People who generated the disclaimer at 6:50 Put down the Cheetos, put on some pants, lose some weight and go get a life.
Hands down the most educational example of the power of a derecho. Mr. Solheim, you did a very good job producing this video. I’m here because we were caught with no warning in a derecho while driving. Your description of the wind speed, single direction and other explanations replaced my confusion with confidence about what to do if caught again. Thank you.
We actually had a derecho warning in MI, as the warning was issued while it was in Illinois, two hours away. We were under a severe thunderstorm warning for almost 2 hrs before it hit us around 6 pm EDT with 80 mph winds for about 20 long minutes.
It's just so insane that it lasted so long. Our storms here in Texas pass through very quickly and the wind portions never come close to lasting this long. I felt so badly for all of the trees that were torn apart by this storm. Glad y'all were okay and thankful those houses did so well in it too!!
Derechos typically do not last this long, that’s why it was so devastating
Well done sir. That was a long one. We were impressed by the trash can on the left side of your garage. Looks like a shovel in it. How in the world it stayed put is beyond us! Glad you guys were safe through that. 🤠🧑🦰🌲🌲🎶
best storm in while i seen recorded on RUclips thanks for the awesome footage
This is one of the best videos of derecho winds I’ve ever seen! Great job.
The duration of this is astounding.
I love the sounds of a nice wind, thunder and some rain..Kinda like what i see and hear on this video.It's relaxing...
You should not have to respond to criticisms like that! Your videos are real and not exaggerated like we mostly see!
Haha no doubt
I was watching and thinking 'at least he's not silly enough to leave his shelter to try to save a car'
Lived in storm areas of the USA, Speechless, never encountered the storm you videoed. Great you family alive, safe, protected. Your new backyard will developed into a beautiful area.
Thank you for sharing.
I was just coming home in my car when the derecho hit. I ran to the front door to try to get in. The garage door would not open…it was dark and the electricity was out. It stayed out a few days. But after some struggle I got the key to open my front door, thankfully.
That had never happened before. It was in No.VA about 12 ish years ago.
Those derechos are unreal. Hope not to encounter one again.
Now here in SC we have hurricanes. We can leave when we see it coming.
Wow, great video but so scary. Thank you!
derechos are hurricanes you dummy.
Thanks for showing all you did to recover and reclaim your property after such a painful loss. So much hard work. I experienced surviving hurricane Hugo while living in North Carolina and also experienced this particular storm as I now live in Nebraska. Iowa got the worst of it. The only difference between the two storms was that with the hurricane there was no ebb and flow with the wind. It was like the constant roar of a jet engine. So loud and frightening. Storms like this feel like the end of the world. Again, God bless you and your family.
Holy cow! That is some seriously insane weather wow!
Thanks for showing the video. very scary storm. In Colorado never this storm like this before. you are very lucky that your house didn't tear apart in this storm.
Being an Iowa resident like you, some people may not fully understand the width of this storm... N to S, it was 65 miles wide coming through central Iowa and 100+ miles wide as it passed through Cedar Rapids. One amazing visualization I saw driving around central Iowa after the storm were miles of completely flattened corn crops - like the Stop Sign in your video - broke at the base of the cornstalk. There were 10M acres of crop damage as reported in USA Today... there's a Wiki page out there providing more details or simple Google searches. BTW - those commenters that gave you flack were way out-of-line - this is a great video!! Thanks for posting!
The saddest thing for me watching (I realize the actual experience was much more tragic!) is watching the trees come down. I mean, you can rebuild houses, get cars repaired or replaced, but you can't just re-grow trees that were decades old. Leafy streets are suddenly stripped of their shade. :(
I knew that immediately after but my new maples are growing every year...one day my husky will have lots of shade
HERE IN OHIO I HAVE LOST 11 VERY LARGE TREES IN THE LAST 25 YEARS DUE TO THESE UN NATURAL SUDDEN WINDS. THE LAST TIME TOOK A MONTH TO CLEAN UP THE MESS. IT TOOK 30 OR MORE YEARS TO GROW THOSE TREES AND SECONDS TO DESTROY THEM! SO SAD AND UNNECESSARY!!!!!!
What a GREAT repost!! If your house faced West, the garage would have blown away. I was watching the news coverage until the power went out @ 12:40. ROL had no back-up power for their cameras.
I hate what storms can do but love to watch them.
I want to thank you very much for filming this historic wind event I really wish I was in Cedar Rapids that day to experience this between you and E Hindman I feel truly blessed to be able to enjoy this the news in Cedar Rapids really missed the ball all the coverage sucked they should of focused more on showing this incredible event instead of talking and constantly showing radar
A great review. Many thanks from Australia 🇦🇺
thanks Kim
That has to be the longest duration derecho I've ever seen , real life or video . That was just absolutely amazing . Glad you're okay , that was Armageddon type stuff , damn !
Stay safe and don't worry about the people that are going to complain . Someone always has different opinions.
it is hard to believe that something that you cannot see which is the wind can cause so much damage to actually looking through it. amazing
Thank you for sharing all your footage. Amazingly devastating and I'm sorry about all the mature tree loss. Glad you were all safe.
Wow! I'm sooo sorry for your and everyones' losses from the storm! You're all in my prayers! God bless you all!
Back in 1969, before anyone heard of the term derecho, we had a straight-line wind at least this bad in my hometown of Remsen, Iowa. I was in the basement with friends as it was raring outside, but I heard it blow our porch door open (an old very, very heavy door) so I went up to close it but couldn't help but just stand at the screen door and look at the storm, instead...it looked just like a hurricane, the wind was just totally white with rain, and I don't know if our trees were just more bendable than yours were in Cedar Rapids during your derecho, but the tops of our trees were touching the ground, as they were bending in half. My friend had luckily moved his car from the front driveway to the back or it would have been under a big, fallen tree, and the next tree closest to it...the nicest apple tree ever...was out by the roots. It blew down highline towers built to withstand winds of at least 110 mph. My dad was hauling gas to farmers in his big, heavy gas truck...he had to stop right there in the road cuz he couldn't see, and when the wind quit, his truck was sideways in the road. It totally wiped out at least half the trees in town. I had just graduated from RU High School and, at that time, found out I really liked chopping wood with a long-handled axe, thanks to this storm.
Great Video, probably the Best I’ve seen, also appreciate the recovery chapter.
Cheers from San Diego
Who cares what others thought. You came home for lunch, didn't know the storm would be so bad, as many of us are guilty of. I'm in Nebraska, and feel for you/know what you mean. Sky looks normal, then boom, not. Our weather is so unpredictable, and goofy as all get out! We had a storm go through here today that took us all by surprise. Sky was so dark and clouds were shifting so strangely. That was crazy intense. For sure sounded like a hurricane. Several years ago we lived in a house with crappy insulation, and build with a horrifying storm that looked and sounded like this. Our boys were very young. I put them in the downstairs bathroom, and just watched the storm come through, out our furnace room that was facing west. It was so strong. Your storm made me think of that day for sure.
WOW! Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺! Awesome coverage of an awesome storm. We get tropical cyclones aka hurricanes that can look like that but I have to say who needs hurricanes when we already have derechos! What a terrible loss of so many beautiful old trees 🌳 but thanks must go to everybody who gave so much to help with the restoration of the community environment!
Well, throughout several cyclones we had I can also say which of them are 60th 70th or above. If you seen that often enough and watch those storms with full attention, you get familiar with how the environment around you react on windspeeds while they passing by. So I say too, that there occurred several 100. I'm quite sure that some of them might have reached even 110 at peak. Especially in Minute 15. On the strongest gusts, there were null sight, because massive rain swaths were formed by the strong winds.
You see a similar effect in motorsport when heavy rain suddenly occurs during a race and the cars reach a certain speed. The higher the speed, the stronger and the more dense these rain swaths becomes behind the cars.
How terrifying. I couldn’t imagine being stuck in your car in this. Boy that’s a long winded dragon.
The term Derecho refers to the distance of the line of thunderstorms, they stretch for at least two hundred fifty miles , in order too qualify, this damage stretched for almost TWO hundred miles. And traveled an equal distance in length. JUST getting started
We had one in Ontario last month that was over 600 miles long. Craziest thing I've ever been through..and it wasnt this bad where I was thankfully.
I’d like to see how your new trees are doing now! I know it’s devastating to lose big mature trees like that! I love trees so much and when I see any tree die or damaged badly it’s sad! But great video and I hope your new trees thrive and give good shade!
This is exactly what an EF4 Hurricane is like... Took a direct hit from Charley in 04 & it looked just like this, well, except of course when it changed direction and there were tornadoes in it..so there was the freighttrain sound over head
Curraazzy
I dont know how those things stayed on the ground and there wasn't more damage ...
This was 18 years ago and our trees have now grown back plus many more were planted since. Hopefully yours will regrow and you'll plant more too
I missed a derecho, where I live. I was looking forward to a great thunderstorm. It happened in the northern part of our city but not in my area. I was so disappointed. This video is so good, I feel satisfied that I got watch an unbelievable event. I experienced hurricane hazel but was too young to remember. Thank you for this video.
Longest I’ve seen just kept going! Wave after wave! Like a land based hurricane!
When I was 9, Southern MI got hit hard with a derecho on 7/16/80. It had to be the worst storm I'd ever experienced. By the time this derecho hit MI, it had weakened to cat-1 hurricane strength.
They are rare id never heard of one b4
This derecho was headed right for Sioux Falls but then, at the last second, it veered south before heading east again, so we lucked out, big time!
I use folding solar panels to charge phones and power small fans after storms. They work even if it`s cloudy. I also have a collection of solar power stations for crucial things like freezers and a small dorm fridge, etc.
Wow! Looked like a Hurricane. In August 2021 Hurricane Ida came through Louisiana. Most of the homes and businesses here looked like that church. A lot of us are living in temporary campers. My apartment wasn't really damaged. Just lost siding but we all had to move out. The worst Hurricane we ever had
And the scariest. I stayed but never again.
Yeah, pretty much looks like a hurricane.
Good documentation! Thx for sharing.
Same with the one that hit Houston a month ago, caught most off guard and all there was at first was a tornado warning for a small area. That one which I posted a video of was largely in and out in 8 minutes. This thing went on for a long time which was more like experiencing the eyewall of a hurricane.
Interesting link the vid here
Insane. In Southern Ontario on May 21 2022 we had a Derecho. Very damaging but not like this.
Didnt u guys also have a big f5 tornado this year
Hi, I like your video. I have to say, pretty strong winds there. I like storms, tornadoes, etc. I would love to go storm chasing. Its amazing on the power of some storms. Anywho thank you for your video.
Brotha from anotha motha
I'm sure it was terrible but their was a worse one in the Northeast and southern Canada about 20 years ago. Flattened 100s of k acres of forest. The front was 300 miles long. Featured in National Geographic Mag.
The reason ours is considered the worst in history was that it very well could have caused a food shortage for many parts of the world that year due to all the destroyed crops and grain silos all across Iowa. If you are not aware, States like Iowa are some of the Primary food production areas in the US that supplies most of the world with corn and soybeans exported to other states as well as out of the US down the super trade highway known as the Mississippi river via Davenport (Quad Cities Area) which is why the damages were in the 10's of Billions of dollars. It would have been much worse if a Pandemic hadn't just started a few months prior, shutting down most non-essential places.
That must have been the one that I saw the pictures of the beautiful huge trees of the forest lying side by side for as far as you could see. I live in Amarillo Tx, and when I heard that Houston had a “Derecho” I about had a heart attack....my 21yo grandson lives there, and that one in the NE, and the one in Iowa were all I could think of...🙁
Now that’s some scary stuff…glad you & your family are ok….just wondering why the trash can on left side of scene didn’t get blown away???
The car antenna though…
Wow! We just had one of those in Ontario last month. Wasn't as crazy as this where I live but still the wildest thing I've ever seen. Scary!
Did it ever get dark as night at the start of the storm, as it did during our derecho here in Sioux Falls and other areas in S. Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota? We were lucky in that ours struck in May, when not all the trees were very "leafed-out" yet, so there was a lot less resistance to the wind, but we still had lots of trees out by the roots.
Even though this was a year ago I was truly terrified OMG 😲
I'm quite surprised that those trees between the neighbors house and the church are still standing. With how tall those are and how full the canopies are I would've been sure those would go down at some point. Great footage though.
Yeah crazy day
@@jasolhe I loved your synopsis on the pingpong table that if you had put it outside it would be imbedded in your neighbors house. That's a very colorful and accurate description.
Tree damage is what I hate most about these types of storms! And then there are the innocent birds who get caught in those terrible winds (and other animals)!
when you said thats 100, i actually said outloud "at least" yes i love to watch these types of videos and this was the worst and the longest.
Yeah ive never called out wind speeds in my life but it just instinctively came out of my mouth
Thanks for sharing this , this storm hit just this year in Ontario Canada
Our roof lifted up several feet on one side during hurricane Laura and sat back down. What can you do? It was scary. We were 15 feet from the top of a large hill where the wind was wide open with nothing to slow it down except another hill a few hundred yards away. I went out to the porch and as soon as I opened the door a huge tree on the other side somehow fell almost towards me and missed the porch by ten feet. The porch was trying to collapse.
Awesome video !❤❤
I'm from Lousiana and that legit looks like a hurricane
We got hit with a historic derecho here in Ontario canada last May. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Up to 190KM (120mph) winds. Usually if we get hit with a derecho, windspeeds usually don't top 100km (60mph). Luckily for us, the winds only lasted like 15 minutes tops. It also spawned 4 tornadoes, the largest was an EF2 that hit Uxbridge, Ontario. This storm knocked power out in some areas for nearly a week.
Cedar Rapids was known as the city of trees 🌳 Thanks for sharing.
Very scary storm. I have never been in one.
Y do u care about the critics if they say they coulda done a better job ,then y didn't they, yea under the circumstances u did a great job n thank u
I experienced this storm when it reached Chicago. it was scary! The streets were full of fallen tree branches afterward.
Yep the peak was in cedar rapids i believe or some farm land nearby
Damn! Where do the birds go when this hits, I wonder. Great documentary regardless of camera shaking. You captured the severity. Glad everyone's safe. Feel bad for the trees tho.
My biggest criticism is that you sound proud of your Pontiac vibe.
As long as you think you & your family are safe, the choice is yours. People who weren't there, don't know. For love, nor money, you could not miss that. I live in Tasmania, Australia & it is one of the safest weather, geological, political & economical places on Earth. Fires are a bit of a problem. Nine Americans a month are moving here! Don't tell anybody please. This is just astounding. It had me mesmerised. 60klm (35mph) is fierce to me!
Hi, i'm from Brazil and i've never seen rain storm like that 😨
The tree devastation in Iowa alone was so bad that satellite before and after pictures above Iowa looked much different because most trees fell, uprooted, or lost canopies and or many larger branches. So sad.
I will have to find some images of that
@@jasolhe It was so freaky as much as I loved trees growing up my new place down the street from my old place has no trees next to it. And it will stay like that. Rather not have to worry about a Tree cleaving my place in half like warm butter. Like what happened to a building at my old place just up on Tower Terrace Rd.
One question I have for you and other recorders I've viewed. Why do people leave their cars outside when garages are empty?
Why did it last so long? Great video.
That storm seems to go in forever!! You’re brave!! Greetings from Texas USA 🇺🇸 I never heard of a derecho?? We get tornados and straight line winds in North Central Texas.
Thanks..my company HQ are in CR and I live in Boston. We often get an email when our offices and co workers experience mid western weather, floods, etc. I have always kind of wanted to know what it's like and with speakers full blast I think I understand now.
This is like a small tornado standing still on top of you. That's some crazy shit!
"How much of a 'Wind-Velocity' can shingles withstand, before they break loose from the roof???..
derechos usually always run east to west, which is a cold front uprooting a warm front. When colliding the are very windy and can create havoc outside of the normal tornado ally. Very destructive storms.
I would have not felt safe anywhere BUT the garage! 😬 INSANE!@#?*
yeah i love storms up close
play it as loud as you can
Me : nah my cat is eating Temptations in my room i dont wanna scare her
Imagine 4+ hours of that, with 40+ more mph winds, tornadoes within sight all around you, even lifting right over you, that's cat 5 Michael. Wasn't any signs left. Store signs even bent to the ground after the signage was gone, 10-16 square steel post bent like an undercooked spaghetti. Nature is the most powerful force on this planet.
Ok, understand your reasoning on your car.
what a great vantage point
bruh thats almost the same intensity as a cat 3 hurricane eye wall
Yup
I absolutely love storms myself. But as I'm watching this and you mentioned IF you had time to move the table to put the car in the garage you would have lost the table and flown away with it...but my first thought was IF you had time to move it...you could have flipped it upside down up against that taller stone wall and it wouldn't have gone anywhere. Just my two cents on that..not that it matters lol maybe next time if you have the thought and time to do it. Either way...I loved this video.
i'm undefeated playing ping-pong, over 10k games and not one L.
3:32 huh? A derecho is a severe thunderstorm, just a really high-end one with a special classification. There’s no other Warning they can give it. If they had reason to believe a tornado would spawn then that portion of the line would’ve gotten its own Tornado Warning. Make sure to read the bulletins when something is issued, the details are in there!
Very similar to our Louisiana hurricanes. Just when you think it can`t get any worse....
the little brick wall 🧱 where the basketball hoop was is what saved your car from moving more then it did it was a wind brake had it not been there your car might have slammed into the wall on the right when it did move.
Transformers blowing = power line touched something and arced to another one or ground.
Wow, terrible. Very frightening.
That's a whopping storm
Yeah never will see one as powerful again in iowa i have a feeling
That looks scarier than a tornado.
In almost every way except direct hits yes
What was the max speed it reached that was mentioned over your news Channel?
I lived on the North edge of Hiawatha just north of here like half a mile to a mile on Tower Terrace Rd, and we got gusts of 108-133mph thru most of the storm, unfortunately.
Those winds are equivalent to a category 4 hurricane.
No. That’s Category 1 hurricane equivalent winds, close to Category 2. Category 4 winds would topple all houses down and most trees would be down all over the place.
@@pantherzone2008 the highest gust was 140 which is cat 4 strength. The sustained winds were that of a cat 2 hurricane. Cat 4 winds won’t topple “all houses down” maybe the weak ones and most mobile homes but def not all.
"Worse than a tornado."
Uhhhh.... no.
But I do appt the fantastic Derecho footage, for sure!
As a whole miss as a whole.. i get u
stretch duck 7 brought me here. Felt earthquake in tokyo but this is sick footage
who stretch duck?
@@jasolhe stretch duck 7 sunk and like 8 people died in a lake because of a derecho
I live in cr it was insane I believe recorded 140mph winds 45 mins unbelievable
i was wondering why you didnt park ur car inside and right after it popped in my head you paused and told us why and i agree rather have my car messed up a lil then have a ping pong table possibly hurting someone or killing someone specially if a child was involved but if this ended up to be a ef3 or higher you wasnt safe anywhere unless you have a storm shelter dont know how safe those are either i live in ga we get hurricanes so this kind of wind i know about but tornadoes if a big one ever hit my town i think almost everyone would die and all would be majorly injured there are abso;utely no storm shelters in my neck of the woods
How are you not getting sucked out of the garage?! And just talking casually with a young person like there's a boring parade going by. 😆
God must have hated that church.
I live on the east coast, we get winds like these w hurricanes. The wind doesn't hurt people, debris does. Your 100% about the ping pong table. People give you flack no matter what you do. My son and I would've done the same thing. Lots of couch referees out there :)
Yep just like Ron White said, "It's not that the wind is blowing it's what the wind is blowing. When you get hit by a Volvo how fit you are will not come into play"
It was actually only the 3rd strongest. But still impressive.
Really name 2 stronger id like to know haha
@@jasolhe well, there was a Derecho in Utah that currently holds the record for strongest windspeeds from a Derecho. Believe it was around 150mph. Then there's the July 11th, 2011 mid-Atlantic Derecho with winds gusting to 130mph. There was another Derecho in Wisconsin in 1998 with winds gusting over 130mph.
If you search up the 2012 mid-Atlantic and midwest Derecho, it is still considered the worst Derecho in US History.
And i know they say the Iowa Derecho had 140mph wind gusts, but those were estimates, not actual measurements. The estimated wind speed was due to damages, which could've easily been caused by a quick spinup from one of the few tornadoes that formed from the Derecho, not the Derecho itself. The actual *measured* wind speed was 126mph. Which is still very strong, but not the strongest from a Derecho.
Break it down into different categories.
Utah Derecho: highest windspeeds
2012 Mid-Atlantic Derecho: deadliest and longest tracked Derecho.
Iowa Derecho: the costliest
The only thing about the Iowa Derecho is the damage cost. Other than that, it was just another high-end wind event. Which are pretty rare. I doubt there will be another Derecho of this magnitude anytime soon.
@@leaf2180 finally a knowledgeable person spewing out details...gj leaf
@@leaf2180 The green storm of 1980 was also a derecho that produced winds around 150 mph in Detroit, MI.
Also, while the 2012 derecho event was intense, I'm pretty sure it's only considered the worst in US history because of the fact that Washington DC was one of the areas hit by it.
As for longest track, I believe the 1999 Boundary Waters Derecho holds that record. It formed at the extreme east of North Dakota, and traveled over 1300 miles, and was able to reach Maine. Also, similar to the August 10 derecho, the Boundary Waters derecho also produced winds that lasted much longer than usual, with winds lasting up to 40 minutes in some locations.
The worst/most intense derecho would be hard to pick, considering there's a lot that goes into what makes a storm "intense" or "the worst", but if I had to pick one, I'd either pick the Southern Great Lakes derecho of 1998, or the Super derecho of 2009
@@bluetoad6848 that's not why the 2012 Derecho is considered the worst lmao. It was fast moving, has the most casualties, and the longest track. It wasn't even at peak strength when it hit Washington D.C.
Living in Kansas this is nothing new for myself.