05-21-2024 Mount Etna, IA - Multiple Tornadoes - Downed Wind Turbines And Fire

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Tornado impacting the Mount Etna, IA area. There were two tornadoes on the ground at the same time. Includes drone video of the tornado and damage to wind turbines. One was on fire.

[@bobbyjones2112]

Looks like something from a Science Fiction movie!

[@tiffanycollins296]

Yeah like "Apocalypse Tornadoes " as title

[@rockinchimp]

Considering the upcoming film Twisters has a scene in it where a tornado takes down a wind turbine it kind of is

[@tiffanycollins296]

@visiontv68 exactly. Just like they do in building houses to code for earthquake and hurricanes

[@constance5894]

You guys had a crazy day! Lots of great videos--that drone shot with the turbines and the car passing between gave an amazing perspective on how large they are and the power that it must take to destroy them.

[@ljfinger]

@visiontv68 What risk? Three turbines down out of the roughly 100,000 in the US, and no one hurt. Would you rather have Fukushima?

[@acheartist]

I just asked a friend how these mills would hold up to a tornado. Thanks for giving me the answer. Incredible footage. You are good.

[@sabishiihito]

If it were a weak one, they probably would have been fine. Not much of anything would hold up to one like this.

[@dracofirex]

Those windmills are huge and sturdy. A single blade has to be carried on an oversize semi and still sticks out a bit. Even so, against tornado-force winds, they get twisted and bent. It's insane how strong tornadoes are.

[@darkfafnir4389]

There is a video of one spinning soooo fast it explodes..that's cool too...crazy video

[@zenlandzipline]

@visiontv68trump will tell you that they are dangerous, and that they kill all of the birds, and that people don’t have electricity when the wind isn’t blowing. And for solar, he will say the same when it’s cloudy out. These windmills are not posing any danger to anyone. Unless somebody had one that was within 150-200 feet of their house, I don’t see why they should be restricted. Unless of course, you just don’t like green energy.

[@petesteensen3392]

dRumpf voters are against wind turbines because dear leader says they cause cancer. I sure hope none of those landowners are hypocritical by taking wind energy income yet voting for the fascist clown.

[@sonyaweinreis6530]

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I live on eastern plains of Colorado and I complained about a little hail, these tornados are getting worse and we can't stop them!

[@bentullett6068]

Greta will not be happy seeing this

[@artandcrafttherapy]

Nature is AWESOME 👌🏾

[@toddwilliams5905]

Reed Timmer has video of these turbines coming apart on You Tube

[@johnscott5105]

Those wind generators are not cheap either.

[@lovewins-1]

Excellent footage oh my goodness ❗The tornado was very powerful to tear down / bend those wind turbines.

[@CORNDODGER]

LMAO NO those things are CRAP A WASTE OF TAX MONEY and MORE DESTRUCTIVE to our ENVIRONMENT THAN what IDIOTS CALL FOSSIL FUELS

[@shane7133]

​@visiontv68 don't worry, I'm sure taxpayers no where near Iowa will help cover the cost.

[@HOTRODMONZA]

We tax payers are being ripped off over this BS i! If its so good let the FREE MARKET dictate how its funded!!!!!

[@billmackey3482]

I can't image doing what you guys and girls do, but you and Reed get some of the most Beautiful footage on what is really a sad day for a lot of people.

[@dgsantafedave1]

Tornadoes be like slapping their little brothers down!

[@railyardfilms6491]

Windfarms will never hold up ever vs big tornadoes

[@CoolCoolMaps]

Not just windfarms.... pretty much nothing will hold up to them.

[@supertornadogun1690]

@@CoolCoolMaps Indeed, except maybe a skyscraper but would probably still have all the windows blown out.

[@pillarwatch]

@@CoolCoolMaps A nuclear power plant would.

[@cwshawk]

@@pillarwatcha reactor would, not the plant. The substations, transmission lines, perimeter radiation detectors, etc. would all be gone. Other buildings like the generator hall would be damaged at least. You can’t have an operating nuke plant unless all of these things are online and operating correctly.

[@cwshawk]

@visiontv68there are. This isn’t Invenergy and Berkshire’s first tornadeo.

[@subman721]

What a beautiful Carbon Footprint.

[@TimedOut...NoWayo]

Remarkable footage of these storms.

[@badhombre4942]

The carbon footprint of those windmills just went up.

[@ShermanTank-xe7xe]

multiple people are dead and you're playing politics. i sense a trump voter

[@hotchihuahua1546]

@@ShermanTank-xe7xewe could write a page about what we think ! I get what he is saying Just like your TDS ! It is what it is and hurts us all !

[@anonymousmouse2889]

I wonder what the carbon footprint of that windmill fire is 😆

[@CoolCoolMaps]

Extremely low.

[@cwshawk]

Still less than what the Walter Scott Jr. plant down the road emitted today

[@zenlandzipline]

@@cwshawkyou’re wasting your time. These cretins are totally anti-green energy. They couldn’t care less about the future generations.

[@skutchBlobaum]

Way less than a refinery.

[@zenlandzipline]

@visiontv68 you mean the little men that live in the towers, and go outside and blow on the blades when it’s not a windy day? Yeah. They should get a break when a tornado comes. That tornado is going to produce a lot of wind to spin those blades real real fast. Zooooommmm!!! I’d say the little wind trolls can take a few days off after a tornado.

[@theresawright1176]

That was spinning so fast, it caught on fire!

[@libertylost8286]

Oil and wires in the turbine that is burning. I watch another video and the blades blew off before it fell down and caught on fire.

[@theresawright1176]

@@libertylost8286 they are an eye sore anyways,,,, They have a mess to clean up,,God Bless Them!! And if Trump was in charge,, he would have acknowledged situation already!!

[@cwshawk]

@@theresawright1176Um, Berkshire added these to the grid in 2018 during the Trump Administration.

[@theresawright1176]

@visiontv68 we all have a cell phone, with a weather app! Plus, when you live in the plains, you can see the weather coming For Miles! Wind turbines are a “Useless Eyesore “ ,,Govt. Waste of Tax payers hard earned money!,, Most of those turbines, on my travels, aren’t even turning, ruining the country view!!,!

[@theresawright1176]

@visiontv68 Not only that,,,,, if they are workers, they’ve got a Heck of a view up there.!!

[@ChrisArkwright]

Imagine if you could actually harness the power of a tornado though.

[@ChrisArkwright]

@visiontv68 what

[@angrydragon4574]

The rope tornado at the intro looked a lot like the Elie, Manitoba F5 IMO. The damage throughout IA makes more sende to me now.

[@thevikingwolfpack836]

Green energy at its finest

[@time2fly2124]

hey guess what, its such an incredibly low chance that something like this could happen.. so gtfo out of here with your MAGA bull crap.

[@mowcowbell]

Seen what lightning does to a oil tank farm? I have, and it is a environmental disaster.

[@WeathermanEvan]

bro i'd rather 3 turbines falling to an EF4 tornado than a whole ass explosion and possible evacuations because a petroleum plant got hit

[@thevikingwolfpack836]

@@WeathermanEvan they need to build them like they are over seas.

[@mowcowbell]

@@WeathermanEvan and gas prices would jump 50 cents a gallon because of it!

[@pliskenmovie]

Windmills in a tornado zone, makes as much sense as solar panels in hailstorm country. Mother nature always wins.

[@lukesheridan439]

Looks like they hold up okay if it's not a direct hit.

[@mowcowbell]

Wind farms are placed where the wind blows consistently. What about offshore drilling rigs in fishing areas? Ban them too?

[@Independent7274]

There are 70,500 wind turbines in America and a couple got hit by a tornado. I don’t think we have to rethink the placement of turbines it wasn’t that big of a loss.

[@mowcowbell]

@@Independent7274 Someone here that knows how to research before spouting off conspiracy theories!

[@adriangreenoff9163]

Doesn't matter how much science,money and human "ingenuity"we think we have,nature,however we reckon it might work is going to kick our collective arses

[@rodgerthat152]

At least the grass and trees are still green!

[@glenbard657]

The folly of "green" energy. It looks like "green" energy produces a lot of black smoke.

[@rycat5ESS]

Most things produce black smoke when burned

[@time2fly2124]

you know the chances of this even are so low that its probably not likely to ever happen again. but guess what, its still a risk worth taking.

[@cwshawk]

If you like black smoke and sludge, you should see Berkshire’s coal plants on the Missouri River west of here

[@time2fly2124]

@visiontv68 these things are unmanned 99% of the time. What, did time think they were lighthouses from the 1800s?

[@malahammer]

oh ffs 🙄Google tsumami and nuclear power station.

[@Design_no]

Gotta love renewable energy 😂😂😂

[@aWienerandaBeaner]

The 2000 gallons of oil that it holds, now in the soil.

[@CoolCoolMaps]

Quick work for a vac truck.

[@peterlangdon7011]

I doubt very much if these hold 2000 gallons of lubricating oil. Probably closer to 200.

[@cwshawk]

It had 50-100 gallons at any given time, per the Weather Channel. Nice try, though.

[@PinyonGear]

@visiontv68 No it doesnt bot.

[@lukesheridan439]

@visiontv68 why kind of bot ass statement is this

[@tomhall7250]

Pretty sure that’s TOXIC SMOKE !

[@malahammer]

which smoke isn't?

[@WeathermanEvan]

pretty sure all smoke is bad for you

[@3dpete1]

totally burning sulfur dioxide and CO2, you can be sure there will be lots of acid rain at your house, best stay inside for the next 30 years.

[@s_u_n_j_a_y]

🥰

[@rev.randall2292]

Playing TAPS in my mind. They never stood a chance.

[@cwshawk]

The 50 other ones next to it did

[@rev.randall2292]

@visiontv68 Its about $$money$$ . But anyway , not many things survive that kind of attack , very destructive.

[@kathyhenderson8581]

Wow.

[@riverton70]

A new Super Fund site has been created!

[@gifthorse3675]

Mother Nature said windmills are stupid.

[@Mo-mr8vv]

I think it's more like what God thinks of man trying to save the planet. Jesus is coming back soon and not as a baby.

[@3dpete1]

O-H T-H-E I-R-O-N-Y!!!!! OMFG!

[@lorimason2288]

@@3dpete1 they dont even know what you mean...bless their hearts

[@cwshawk]

So it left the other 106 turbines on this farm standing?

[@malahammer]

oh ffs 🙄Google tsumami and nuclear power station.

[@adambased7928]

So who's idea was to put wind turbines in a tornado belt

[@malahammer]

The same guys who put houses, farms, towns, roads, electric pylons etc.

[@skutchBlobaum]

Who puts a refinery in the middle of town and expects it to never blow up despite ignoring hundreds of safety violations ?

[@WeathermanEvan]

@@skutchBlobaum Finally someone who actually uses their brain in this comment section

[@Independent7274]

Tornadoes happen from the south to upper Midwest nowadays. Do you really think it’s feasible not to build in these areas?

[@glenbard657]

Can we talk about all of the pollution caused by that smoldering wind turbine?

[@zebrashark23]

No. that would make you a "climate denier" and a person not worthy of being skeptical. You are not allowed to think, just go along with the program.

[@Independent7274]

What do you think would happen if it hit a refinery or coal burning plant? Can we talk about that?

[@kevinthetruckdriver353]

This is why green energy *WILL NEVER FULLY REPLACE* current energy sources. This windmill farm will be out for months. The infrastructure (aka wiring alone) within that farm will take a few months to repair. Imagine a small town near that farm depends 50% of their energy from there. Be interesting to see how long this windmill farm is back up at full strength again.

[@regular_pseudonym]

Lol, and if a tornado hits a coal power plant, will it suddenly be easier and faster to fix it? =D Look at how many windmills are left untouched in the background, so only 0.5-1% of this farm is destroyed.

[@davestagner]

Have you ever seen an Iowa wind farm? They’re spaced hundreds of feet apart, and it can go on for miles. A tornado cutting right through the middle of a wind farm probably wouldn’t take out more than a handful of them. You can even see this in the video, around the four minute mark - in a drone shot, a couple of windmills are down, but many more are still up. And wind power has been common in Iowa for 20 years now. If tornadoes were the threat you think they are, they’d know by now.

[@cwshawk]

Only 4 of over 55 came down, as the other ones are still online. And there is a neighboring Berkshire wind farm with another 55 turbines. Also don’t worry, Warren Buffet can afford to file the insurance claim to replace these.

[@zenlandzipline]

⁠@visiontv68ok asswipe. I will ask the first question: what are the risks? What really is at stake here? I wind turbine falling down and hitting a cow? Is that what is at steak? (Har har).

[@zenlandzipline]

@@davestagnerthese people on here that are saying “look…wind energy is dangerous” and “wind energy isn’t reliable”, just don’t believe in green energy. It’s that simple. They have the mentality of “I’m going to burn gasoline as much as I want, in my boat, my RV, my pickup truck, and I don’t care about the future because I will be dead”. They slam every effort to do something good for our future, and offer no alternatives. They have no ideas. Their only idea is “drill for more oil. I’m not worried about greenhouse gas. I like hot weather. I will save money on heating bills in the winter if we warm the earth up”.

[@trulylynn9941]

They probably just planted those fields. There is our food supply.

[@David-p7z9n]

“Tornadoes prove climate change is real! We need a new global bureaucracy with high pay, great pensions and to levy huge taxes on people” -TV news.

[@CornFedWhiteBoy27]

Be some spot in that farmer fields that won't grow anything this year

[@cwshawk]

A lot of them haven’t planted yet with the flooding and standing water

[@hotchihuahua1546]

These wind towers and solar panels are so fragile against Mother Nature ! The fact wind towers are placed in our oceans with salt and Hurricanes to contend with makes me wonder what people are thinking when they place them there !

[@malahammer]

We very rarely get hurricanes in Europe. And as for the salt, you need to google before you post.

[@hotchihuahua1546]

@@malahammer seriously , nothing I said isn’t true !

[@ljfinger]

These turbines are designed to withstand straight line winds of around 155mph or so. You think that's fragile? Houses are designed to something like 90mph.

[@hotchihuahua1546]

@@ljfingerI guess the wind was 156 mph at least .

[@ljfinger]

@@hotchihuahua1546 Yep.

[@allenra530]

I wonder a little about the conceit that leads someone to name a place in Iowa after an active volcano in Italy. It looks like the farm buildings and the wind turbines had a very bad day there.

[@Jilly-Kerry-2Mullens]

Originally was named Mt Nebo, changed when first settlers moved there

[@kc5hgv]

@0:45, So much for Green Energy. Remember the Texas Deep Freeze 2 years ago in Texas and everyone was in the dark?

[@time2fly2124]

news flash, it wasnt the wind generators that caused people to die, it was a freak winter storm and ERCOT's total mismanagement and failure to provide maintenance over YEARS to its grid that cut the power and killed people. stop trying to blame it all on one piece of the pie.

[@cwshawk]

Yeah, I remember the nat gas plants freezing up and being knocked offline.

[@DerGlaetze]

JoeBama green energy at its finest

[@cwshawk]

Trump admin money built these in 2019

[@malahammer]

oh ffs 🙄Google tsumami and nuclear power station.

[@trevorbryant4360]

Just think what these tornados will do to a power plant or power substation. A tornado will make a huge mess of them, especially outside facilities. A substation would be like a plate of spaghetti. Forget knocking down a few wind turbines.

[@socal33]

They take down power lines for sure, but a power station, like a coal, nuclear, or LNG, I don't think they've been taken offline by a direct hit in recent memory. Those windmills will take months to replace, not a power station. That can come back online pretty quick. They're built to withstand natural occurrences, not windmills.

[@buckydoedowner9040]

Tornado wouldnt hurt a nuclear power plant at all snowflake, It would be minor. Enjoy that black smoke, hydraulic fluid leaching into the earth and those scrap turbines that cannot be recycled. Your very uneducated. Because even with Turbines you need sub stations.

[@trevorbryant4360]

@socal33 A tornado definitely can destroy any auxiliary facilities at a power station, which can cause the power station to be offline for extended periods of time.

[@socal33]

@@trevorbryant4360 I didn't say they can't, I said I can't recall a power facility being destroyed. Let's be clear, those windmills were 100% destroyed. Can you cite any coal, nuclear, or LNG facilities 100% destroyed by a tornado in recent memory? An entire solar facility, thousands of panels, was just destroyed by hail in Texas! That's a huge amount of toxic solar panels that have to be buried because they are not recycled. High output per facilities are not destroyed by hail. If you want to live by solar or wind, have at it. But I prefer a stable and reliable power source like the ones that built out civilization.

[@cwshawk]

Nuke plants are designed to scram even if a tornado gets close.

[@anubis7173]

Has the president visited any of these areas affected by all these tornadoes these past few weeks? Yeah I don't think so

[@cwshawk]

Joe was too busy visiting your mom

[@oSnapMillerTime]

Wow so this is what the politicians want us to depend on

[@Strob_GD]

snap crackle pop

[@monkeybusiness1999]

​@@Strob_GD Larry, Moe & Curly...

[@Strob_GD]

@@monkeybusiness1999 broo xD

[@MatthewK863]

LOL, if it hit a coal plant or a nuke plant, what would you be saying then? You'll take any chance to show how fragile a snowflake you are. FFS.

[@PrissyTomboy]

They lost power from what we depend on now, so what's your point?

[@risa_sh.youtube3244]

🙏🎯🌍🔥🔥🔥🔥 **Nam myoho rengekyo** 🙏 pray 🌍 peace 🕊️ be safe+ _____//

[@Rainy679]

Sad news is the farmer or properties owners will have to pay.

[@cwshawk]

Invenergy runs and pays for the cleanup. Berkshire pays for the new one, if they want it. They have 106 others still operating at that wind farm.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Give it a day, Fox will steal the footage, zoom in to a 16:9 box inside the logos, drop an "Amatuer Footage" note on it, and use it in a diatribe about "Wind turbines susceptable to storm damage, power supply security not possible" rant, followed by a story next month trying to blame the victims for causing the storms.

[@Chris-lh7wj]

Clean energy huh

[@zenlandzipline]

Yes. If that were an above ground oil pipeline, and a big tornado hit it and busted it open, you’d be seeing and environmental disaster. Instead, you’ve got some steel poles and blades that fell to the ground. They will be picked up, and hauled to a metal scrapyard for recycling. Clean energy. Yes.

[@Independent7274]

It is clean. A refinery or power plant being hit would be way worse.

[@donniedickerson8077]

Them Wind Gizmos thingamajigs didn't hold up to well , imagine that

[@JPC1982]

To be fair, it was a pretty strong tornado. Reed Timmer has video of it.

[@gorak9000]

The trailer you live in wouldn't stand up to a strong breeze, so what's your point?

[@simracingsemantics9821]

replacing a few windmills hit by a tornado: $3 million replacing a coal refinery hit by a tornado: hundreds of millions please, if your IQ is room temperature, pipe down

[@time2fly2124]

theres not many things that large that ARE designed to withstand a tornado. how thick are you people.

[@cwshawk]

There’s plenty more of them coming off the assembly line in Dubuque

[@dansimpson6844]

Green Energy spewing black smoke! 😂😂😂

[@Gingermarie745]

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[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

I think you are in the wrong forum.

[@cwshawk]

ah salam alaikum

[@frankpizzo8971]

More government waste

[@cwshawk]

These were owned by Berkshire Energy and Warren Buffett.

[@frankpizzo8971]

@@cwshawk and subsidized by taxpayers

[@cwshawk]

@@frankpizzo8971Cope into your Federal 1040 form

[@cwshawk]

@@frankpizzo8971so is the QC nuke plant and Walter Scott coal plant Berkshire owns. Want to get rid of those too?

[@frankpizzo8971]

@@cwshawk You should ask Warren that. Buffet told an audience in Omaha, Nebraska recently. "For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit."

[@Jilly-Kerry-2Mullens]

80 gallons oil at least dumped from each turbine...SAY NO TO WIND ENERGY IN TORNADO ALLEY! Takes a Genius yup.

[@feliciascott6874]

Filthy rubbish all over the farmer's field. Shame on him for allowing this junk to be planted on his property.

[@cwshawk]

The farmers are the ones who allowed it and are getting paid from it.

[@Independent7274]

It’s a free country. The farmer can do whatever he wants with his land..

[@time2fly2124]

brett, you really should turn off comments to this video, its not going well..

[@PinyonGear]

Says the commie free speech hater.

[@cwshawk]

(This whole comment section is like a blue ribbon committee of those not invited to Thanksgiving dinner anymore.)

[@time2fly2124]

@visiontv68 tell me you don't know anything about tornadoes or wind turbines...

[@3dpete1]

Brett, please keep the comments up, who would guess dramatic storm footage could well up such incredible entertaining ignorance?

[@philomenebell4012]

We’ll I guess that’s what happen in tornados ,surely the companies involved would have done test for tornado wind strength

[@cwshawk]

Not really. Utilities usually go with the cheapest “it fall down, replace it with another one” strategy. It got Berkshire (same owner of this toppled turbine) and PG&E in big trouble with the west coast fires.

[@3dpete1]

The exact same way that every house that was destroyed here got tested

[@anubis7173]

3:19 my God would you look at that path of destruction!! We seriously need to back up our farmers and appreciate them more and tell them thank you because look what they go through every season and they struggle. They struggle with the whether they struggle with the crop they struggle with the bills they struggle with this administration which has not been friendly at all to any farmer anywhere. Just ask yourself about Biden What have you done for me lately? You know you work for me fool, right? You are doing the opposite of the job you were hired to do. You're fired

[@cwshawk]

You want Biden to give you a government handout?

[@PinyonGear]

Windmills for climate change.....LOL😂

[@tamugrad2007]

Pretty sure this is the same one, or at least the same supercell, that took out Greenfield.

[@KitKat-wd8vq]

GREAT VIDEO!!!

[@Rooster-lm3ux]

Looks eco friendly to me