The Iowa Derecho: In Their Own Words (Real-Time Documentary)

[@NStewWX]

There has been a lot of commentary about the clock ticking, I have uploaded a special version which has is dramatically toned down. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4LdpaiKYr-lgNU If you want to skip the intermission, 31:00 to jump to the second act. If you enjoyed this video, check out "Marshalltown: In Their Own Words" and "Parkersburg: In Their Own Words" specials as well.

[@madmikemackas]

This was a truly underrated event. Those of us who follow weather knew how significant it was but the majority of America won’t remember what happened. I definitely will.

[@bluetoad6848]

That's how it be for most derechos. They get very little attention from anyone who wasn't affected.

[@heatherstub]

The only thing that bothers me throughout this video is that awful "tink, tink, tink" every second at many points during this video. Otherwise, it's fantastic! I also hope you covered the storms that hit Bondurant and Marshaltown, ia tornadoes from July 19, 2018. Thank you for uploading this.

[@NStewWX]

I recommend you check out my other special "Marshalltown: In their own words"

[@heatherstub]

@@NStewWX Thank you. I've got it queued up to play.

[@stevehutson2815]

Agreed think tink!

[@WastelandBowman]

12:44. The wind literally sounds like someone screaming in anger. Horrifying.

[@ashleyj0]

God dang that dude in the bathroom was extremely calm

[@mrAZcardinal]

That ending. Wow... Dude appeared fairly calm but you could feel his terror and disbelief

[@karlmalone2464]

I got off my night shift trucking job in Des Moines when the storm was in Sioux city and thought it was a run of the mill severe thunderstorm. I woke up to the truck shaking violently. I was able to get behind a building so I didn't overturn. I was super worried for the guys on the interstate!

[@Jtough278]

That storm was something else I’ll never forget it, I’m from Illinois and I have video of all of this and the destruction afterwards was absolutely crazy. I remember sitting outside with the neighbors watching the shelf cloud come in over the corn fields and just a massive gust of wind saw roofs coming off we turned around went down in the basement. Went out afterwards n it was like a bomb went off.

[@lifeafter40_]

You saved the most jaw-dropping footage for last. I was NOT expecting that.

[@NStewWX]

If you want to skip the intermission, 31:00 to jump to the second act. If you enjoyed this video, check out "Marshalltown: In Their Own Words" and "Parkersburg: In Their Own Words" specials as well.

[@kaitlynk4615]

This was a terrifying experience. Ended up being trapped in my house our town lost 3/4 of all trees.

[@brendawalters93]

I was in DesMoines for a doc appointment sat in the car seat belted in sitting in the parking lot waiting for it to pass Praise God the car didn't overturn

[@patrikgibbons7560]

Takes me back to it...damndest thing I’ve ever lived through.

[@mayravixx25]

Same here, I was on the 8th floor of Tallcorn and I genuinely thought the windows were gonna blow out, and that it was the day I was going to die. I've been in some scary situations before, but I don't think anything could top what happened with the derecho. Marshalltown was a complete mess for a good while after, several roads were closed for weeks, and I kept seeing trucks and trailers as full as possible with tree limbs. I wish I did more to help with the clean up effort where my mom was staying at the time, in all honesty.

[@RadioRich]

Insanely good for such a destructive weather event. Fantastic job, Nick, and touche to the rest of the staff there for being so professional in a time of crisis.

[@kaylarieger8571]

This is so scary to me because where I live in Iowa, we didn't get anything bad. We lost power, had some trees fall, and had the strong wind with heavy rain. But it was nothing like any of this. I went to work in the pouring rain not thinking anything of it. So thank you for putting this documentary together.

[@tammi19601]

Yeah I had a tree flatten my home that day . Come home and find that and wonder if my animals were still alive because I heard no sound. I was in total shock that day and on.

[@heatherstub]

Wow! That gentleman who filmed this while his house or whatever that building is was being destroyed; he's much calmer than I thought he'd be. Great footage, and thank you for cutting out the music until the end. I noticed that, so I really appreciate this video.

[@MattHumms]

It was absolutely insane what happen across Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. It got here to Indiana so fast.

[@mamarine81]

1:01:22 No! Not the Corvette!!!

[@lisaevans7293]

What kills me is seeing all these people outdoors filming, sirens are going off but they dont go indoors or take precautions. Then they freak out when storm hits. I knkw i would batten down the hatches, secure things outside, go downstairs or in a room without windows or stay away from windows

[@whisperperper578]

This was very well made! I lived through it and you gave me goosebumps again haha...Well done! This event was the most insane I may ever see.

[@TheMaisiewoofwoof]

Watched your original coverage of this and was in awe. This paints a whole other perspective on how bad it was.

[@noelleperkins6922]

This video is incredible, cool to see footage real time from the storm.👍 Very sad and scary day for many!

[@barbaraczerwonka8297]

OMG my jaw hit the floor!!! This is crazy!!! Never experienced anything like that in my life and hope not to. And I guess bathrooms do save lives! If Brendad were out that door- we wouldn't be watching his footage.

[@ileiaframe4136]

Would have been cool to put an in memory of for those who passed that day. Had a friend whose father died by a falling tree caused by the winds. Overall, I really enjoyed it !!

[@vilaharrison4066]

It hit the south side of Boone so fast, the sirens did not get activated.

[@mayravixx25]

Same thing in Marshalltown, none of the sirens went off until the winds were calming down. I heard there were also tornado reports in towns near Marshalltown, but I still don't know if that was true or not, My mom almost got caught in it, and my mom's friend's car was damaged during the derecho, albeit minor dents here and there. Her description of it is that it was perfectly fine one second, then the next second they were getting hit by a wall of wind.

[@jennyfurr]

@ 1:01:28 my jaw dropped and stayed that way until even after the video had ended. My God, Mother Nature was in a blind rage!

[@mayravixx25]

I was in an apartment on the 8th floor of Tallcorn when this happened in Marshalltown. From what I heard the gusts were around 90 mph, and it woke me up directly from a deep sleep. I had never seen a storm quite like the derecho that hit, there were even people trying to steal generators because the power took so long to restore. I remember sleeping in a car at night for a week straight because it was too hot to sleep in the apartment. I didn't sleep much those nights, I mainly kept my switch on charge in the car and played Super Mario Odyssey because it was the only way to distract myself from just how bad this really was.

[@TheUltimm]

26:38 you can even see the storm moving towards the city thats pretty terrifying

[@bladesnapp4385]

The guy in his business in the tin building. After the roof went off. That had to be a scary ride. Our local news here in Wichita was informing us about it while it went on throughout the day. Crazy summertime storms in the middle of the country.

[@maxrain9043]

I feel really really sorry for you people that live in Iowa and was effective by the storm. Who knew that the storm would have turned out to be that strong and aggressive and violent that storm was no way a deracheo it was something more than that. And it did a lot a lot of damage not to mention some of the trees that were hundreds of years old and you can’t replace a tree that’s hundreds years old. The storm was unbelievable

[@aelx8607]

I thought our house was being destroyed and i thought i was going to die. After the storm my mom tried coming back to my house but she couldnt drive on roads as there was no way to get to my house, and she didnt even know is we were alive looking at other houses that were severely damaged.

[@HRRRisonCater]

Excellent job with this as always Nick(and the CBS2 team)! A truly historic event for the area that we are unlikely to repeat any time soon.

[@Mitch-rd9gs]

Awesome video. I have family that lives in Iowa but I’ve been in South Korea for a couple years so I couldn’t really follow this event too much when it happened. This video perfectly shows what happened and gives me amazing insight. So glad my family was safe but still so scary in the end

[@mc3500]

Very well done. Still seems like yesterday.

[@Sephymuffins]

Iowa's first hurricane!

[@Sarahlynn1304]

31:54 the calm before the storm...... that’s crazy!!

[@julianacromey7151]

57:07 That poor guy it sounds like bombs going off outside. This one was the most scary for me jyst for the simple fact of NOT SEEING ANYTHING GOING ON! I have anxiety just thinking about it. Oh man no way! I live in Minnesota & we are all to familiar with straight line winds & Tornados, but this is a whole new ball game. It could've easily happened here too. Ugh so scary.

[@chicagonorthwesternrailfan5043]

My dad was in Ames and when the storm hit that morning he didn’t know if his truck would be rolled over

[@ssgamegod6334]

Now imagine In a hurricane those powerful winds last for 12+ hours

[@wilinator56]

Well yes but you also have time to prepare. I live here and we had maybe 20 minutes if that. No one had any preparation for what would happen. Plus most hurricanes slow down and loose power as they hit land this didn't.

[@mayravixx25]

@@wilinator56 In Marshalltown, we got absolutely zero warning. One moment it was a perfectly calm day and next thing we knew we were facing down against what's essentially an inland hurricane. I remember a time when I was at a religious camp and there was a tornado warning for the area and I had to hide in a barn, I was terrified. That doesn't even compare to how terrifying the Derecho was for me, I was at a complete loss for words, I couldn't even begin to think what to say. I genuinely thought I was going to die that day.

[@11nenovak]

Incredible. Thank you for sharing.

[@leeroethler4846]

I live in Center Point Iowa it was crazy here but 13 miles south in Cedar Rapids I was about to head to fix a car outside there I'm so glad the AC job that morning ran over or I would have been crushed by trees on that street

[@marktufts7756]

it did several thousand dollars damage to my moms place

[@Prodbybxttery]

Historic event for sure I was in davenport I'm a forecaster not a metioroligist but a forecaster I can't believe the spc only had a Marginal in the morning but this wansnt expected..

[@bellalugosi5853]

Very nice job!

[@YeshuaisYahwah]

It came through knoxville to

[@daver00lzd00d]

wow this was very well done, nice job. the satellite shots of the damaged land area after this I'll never forget looking at, haven't ever experienced anything like this living in NY. also, did you intentionally leave the one curse at the end intentionally? or was that f word an accident lol it works if intentional for sure cause that's about the climax of "fuck!" here

[@heatherstub]

I hate to bring this up, but did you really need the music? It's so repetitive, and it would have been good near the end of the video. For your blind "viewers", (pun fully intended), what we want to hear is the raw audio of the storm. It would be nice if you could have uploaded this without that annoying "tink" as well. But like I said earlier, this is fantastic material.

[@everythingfeline7367]

Much of this can be found independently without any editing. While I agree it's definitely not perfect, the editing is what makes this what it is

[@crystalcorley]

Is that a vet? Oh no, not the vet!😣

[@robertaprince180]

Wow!

[@dannymorgan7252]

Just... what WAS this phenomenon

[@daver00lzd00d]

@42:16 wow! that made my jaw drop lol

[@celticdragon4966]

Damn......

[@chriscollesano8463]

Unbelievable

[@nenblom]

It’s like a tornado.

[@alexanderweinrich7418]

So many ads Jesus

[@lisaevans7293]

Why didnt they sound off tornado sirens? They knew from the news it was coming

[@EJJohnson-cj4qn]

Several people mentioned the sirens and there was footage which included the sirens. I know that there are some places where the sound doesn’t carry well and you can’t hear the sirens much. But from the footage sound here, the sirens were going off.

[@chasersrblx1935]

The sirens were sent off due to intense winds.

[@lisaevans7293]

@@JennRighter way too late

[@mari.be.86]

And do you know where the main problem is? It's simple, you completely destroyed the environment, bare plain, nothing more, bare nothing. Where are the forests? Why don't you have windbreaks there? Yeah I forgot in the USA they only build from planks and everything is max for 10, maybe 20 years. How about, instead of large flat plains, lawns and corn, start planting forests, building ramparts, ditches along the road, modifying the terrain as it should look.

[@ryansgirl2002]

I'm probably just the lone cuckoo bird in the bunch but this doesn't seem to me to be a completely natural occurrence...? I mean, weather modification IS something that can be and actually is done, it's not a secret. However, to what extent and details like when and where aren't public knowledge...maybe because people would demand justice for events like this? Just sayin'. Anytime something totally out of the blue and unprecedented to this extent occurs I can't help but ponder any and all possible reasons. Maybe I'm just crazy. Or maybe not. 👀

[@twlohwrists]

nah, that's all just crazy conspiracy. Derechos and other significant wind events like this are not unprecedented. The damage this one caused was unprecedented, yes, but these storms have been happening across the plains states well before the settlers came west, and we've only just recently started extensively recording and studying extreme weather. I believe the first named "derecho" storm recorded was in 1877? Plains Indians kept record of crazy weather. Back then, damage wouldn't have been as newsworthy as it is today, since so many more people live in cities and sprawling suburbs in this day and age.

[@Dratchev241]

@@twlohwrists don't jump on the calling conspiracy "crazy"... while events like this do happen.. I will tell you a nice story that is fact. 24 AUG 2016. the "surprise" Tornado outbreak Kokomo,IN. the morning and even late morning they were saying no storms just a nice day.. then boom massive outbreak... the day before is what is curious.. the contrails laid out in a perfect grid pattern. we sat and watched them for hours. and with scopes figured out it was the same couple aircraft flying east-west and north-south. way higher then normal traffic patterns. and the next day get a surprise outbreak. want to know something else? ain't seen that kind of crap in the sky in almost 2 years and you know what I can say 2020 weather here was normal. it didn't piss rain for 7 days strait. didn't have to mow wet grass and or mow in the rain. we didn't have 8 months of mud. last time that happened was 2012 when we had the "heat wave" but first part of 12 was days on end of pissrain and mowing wet grass. So don't call it crazy.