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Looks like some wicked stuff just rolled past. May be worse in Ft Wayne though.


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/ Hey Moss, ya still there? #3  
It looks like my wife's hometown of La Porte got hit pretty hard.
 
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My juice has been out since 7 PM. Running the genny 1 hour out of 3 for the fridg and freezer. Funny, it didn't go out till about 10 minutes after the wind hit. Apparently, a branch on the wires had to get soaked before it shorted things out. This will be the longest stretch without juice since I have lived here for 23 years. Yes, there is a county and small town named after Pulaski and then we have Kosciusko County. Little wind damage in my immediate area, but NE and SE 5 miles, poles down, grain bins collapsed and considerable tree damage. Some areas had 70 to 80 mph winds, I'm guessing maybe 40 mph here. Moss's area was out of juice this morning from a storm last night. If he was restored, I bet he's out again and working off the Iphone.
 
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Weird storm. Bad stuff coming from Iowa was going to hit S WI but thank goodness it jumped down to Rockford IL. We didn't get the brunt of the storm but it sure looked like a Hurricane from the windows! The rain came hard and quick so the culverts were flowing and a river was flowing in the back yard. I'm glad we dodged a bullet here.
 
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Diggin It said:
Looks like some wicked stuff just rolled past. May be worse in Ft Wayne though.


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It was a non-event in South Bend. We had worse wind and damage early yesterday morning and there's still power outages and street lights from that. The one that came through last evening didn't do anything near us, just a bit of wind and rain. It was worse north, south, and west of us, though.
 
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Sigarms said:
Just got to ask, is the Pulaski on the map named after Casimir?
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The street in Chicago is.

We got that crazy storm roll through here too, did a bit of damage.
 
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Yeah, that initial assessment was based on the image of the radar. I contacted my father-in-law, who loves extreme weather events, and asked how bad it was. His comment was, "total bust."

My thought was, "well, shouldn't that be a good thing?"
 
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RSR said:
Yeah, that initial assessment was based on the image of the radar. I contacted my father-in-law, who loves extreme weather events, and asked how bad it was. His comment was, "total bust."

My thought was, "well, shouldn't that be a good thing?"
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Yeah, that's a normal reaction. However, we wanted to watch the 6:30 national news, and the local stations butted in panicking WIND WIND WIND!!!

For 30 minutes they were running around like chickens and there was nothing in South Bend. Nothing!

The problem is, our local station cover too much area. Probably 10-12 counties. Just too big of an area. So while it's sunny here, it can be armageddon 30 miles away and they have to cover it.
 
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Iowa got hammered. The power went out Monday morning and it is still out. The highway north out of town is still blocked off from downed trees. The entire town [2500 population]and area around has trees so many trees and power poles down it will take several weeks to get back to some kind of normal. This is the second time in my 67 years that we have been out of power for more than half a day.

I have 2 large black walnut trees on the ground and 4 more that need to be removed. The tops of 3 maples and about a dozen or so spruce trees are on the ground.

The house is okay but the tin shed has some slight roof damage.

I just happened to look at my Davis Vantage Vew and seen the wind speed was 71.

I hope I never see another derecho again. pronounced (duh-RAY-cho)
 
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Pulaski County is the name of seven counties in the United States, all of which are named for Kazimierz Pułaski:

Pulaski County, Arkansas
Pulaski County, Georgia
Pulaski County, Illinois
Pulaski County, Indiana
Pulaski County, Kentucky
Pulaski County, Missouri
Pulaski County, Virginia
 
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It's not just the fields though ....

The storm, known as a derecho, slammed the Midwest with straight line winds of up to 100 miles per hour on Monday, gaining strength as it plowed through Iowa farm fields, flattening corn and bursting grain bins still filled with tens of millions of bushels of last year痴 harvest.
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Before the storm hit, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had been expecting a record national corn crop this year of 15.3 billion bushels harvested from about 84 million acres. Iowa was to provide about 18% of that production. Iowa痴 crop was valued at about $9.81 billion in 2019.

The Iowa Corn Growers Association said it is too soon to accurately describe how much of this year痴 crop was lost. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said Tuesday that tens of millions of bushels of grain stored at farm cooperatives and privately on farms were damaged or destroyed.
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Iowa Farmers Assess Losses After Storm Flattened Cornfields
 
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