A long-track damaging wind event, known as a #derecho, moved through the Midwest Thursday June 29, 2023. Top gusts reached 90mph as the storm traversed more than 500 miles from Nebraska into Indiana.
The storm left 500,000 customers in the dark, especially in hardest-hit Illinois and Indiana.
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Derecho is a literal land hurricane. These storms pack sustained winds 70mph – 100 mph. These come through u get in your basement or concrete structure period. I witnessed the Cedar Rapids Iowa derecho & that storm scared me. I don't get scared of storms usually. This is Mother Nature being royally pissed off!!!
Holy crap that is scary! I saw a SPC Report of 88 mph winds in Central Illinois. It got stronger as it got there.
(I live in Central Oklahoma if Y’all want to know)
Those are terrible, we got hit here in West Virginia June 29th 2012 over 600,000 people knocked out of power and it was July 12th before my lights came back on.
What's a Derecho?
DRENECHO ?MORE LIKE H.A.A.R.P. COMBINED WITH CHEM. TRAILS!!
NO ONE IS BUYING YOU B.S.!!
TRY TELLING THE TRUTH!!!!!
We were anchored in Put-In-Bay at Middle Bass Island on Lake Erie one afternoon. We had just motored across a glassy hot Lake Erie about a hour before anchoring.
Then looking westward a black wall of cloud approached. Within moments the winds rose to 80 mph. Luckily we had put two anchors out.
Other boats were picked up and set on top of docks and washed ashore. Our dingy was “floating” three feet above the water before the painter broke and it went flying away.
This Derecho lasted about 20 minutes before it calmed down.
Count your blessings yours was not as bad as the one in eastern iowa in 2020. Look at the video shot in Cedar Rapids Iowa and you will count your blessings.
Trees are lost, so much destruction.
I’m located in the Hamilton Illinois area, to the East of Keokuk Iowa. And we have recorded wind speeds of over 95mph. This storm has devastated our small town counties.
COLUMBIA MISSOURI AREA
COULDN'T GET SO LUCKY IN GETTING SUCH A
ST⛈️RM.. EVERYTHING JUST GOES RIGHT AROUND THIS AREA
Weed Me
Never heard the term "derecho".
Here in AMERICA we call this a WIND STORM!!!!!
100 mph winds uprooting tall robust oak trees.