Severe storm damage in Iowa this week

[_stucky]

Well, currently.... occupy space in pella...my office is in Clive, my projects range from indianola, redrock area, metro, Marshalltown, Waverly.

but grew up in dbq, lived a couple of years in calmar & decorah. A side of my family is from dyersville.

p4x4 is how/ when I knew he was living in the gutter of iowa

Waverly IL?


i slept through the storm and we don’t have any crop damage as far as I know

 

[Tin Roof]

Good to hear. Sucks for the office. Storm rolled in out here like someone owed it money. Seems like sat-Tuesday power will br up for everyone between mid-am & alliant.... who aren't on for you currently

A friend from high school is an insurance agent in Maxwell, not too far from you. She said they have been bombarded with claims.

 

[Trackerbacker(fvckvs)]

Waverly IL?


i slept through the storm and we don’t have any crop damage as far as I know

Iowa

 

[Trackerbacker(fvckvs)]

A friend from high school is an insurance agent in Maxwell, not too far from you. She said they have been bombarded with claims.

Believe it, ankeny-Ames on east was hammered hard

 

[evernoob]

You have to be able to cut the stalks.

What, mechanically, can be done with all of those stalks laying down? Do conventional blade plows just plow it all in so that it returns to the soil? Does that mess up the field for future crops? Corn stalks are pretty durable and papery, they last a long time unless you put them in a big fermenting pile. Seems like it will change the moisture behavior of the soil at least.

Kind of interesting to consider how that effects the actual farming.

 

[evernoob]

This is like those Nebraska floods. It goes unreported basically in the national news while the MSM concentrates on how minorities are injured by the little white figure on crosswalk street lamps. But behind it all, on social media, people are aware that a fairly serious disaster just happened that no one is reporting.

It's all part of this slow happening. The disconnect between flyover values and coastal globalist values and concerns. But that part about it not being reported or focused on, it's a happening. Coastals are completely insulated from it, they won't even notice whatever tiny uptick in prices from these storms.

 

[Tiha]

It doesn't make the news because this is normal.

I'm in Des Moines. My power came back on 30 minutes after I hooked up the generator lol.
Some people are still without power or power not staying on for long.
We have friends coming to our house to sleep and cool off. Use the internet.

Marshall town got hit bad again. They got hit with a tornado 2 years ago.

This storm was more wide spread than normal but the damage is similar. Tornados, ice storms, blizzards. Hail, crop damage. Even flooding is all part of normal life and there is no political gain.

 

[_stucky]

To pick those stalks off the ground, you either have to hire high school kids to walk it and hand pick it, or put a reel on the corn head and go one way against the grain. Major pain in the dick no matter what. Whoever said something about dollar bills laying on the ground, reminded me of my dad saying “if you had 50,000$ on the floor, you’d bend over and it up, right?”

 

[UnfrozenCaveman]

Just west of Des Moines ...

Power was off Monday after the storm, on & off on Tuesday and okay after that. Finally have phone & internet again. No significant damage at home, but dang that was exciting for a few minutes!

 

[Arickvan]

those pics are insane!

crazy to think just wind crushed those silos, i bet theyre rated for like 60mph windload

 

[SomeGuy]

those pics are insane!

crazy to think just wind crushed those silos, i bet theyre rated for like 60mph windload

I wonder if they were empty? I don't see a lot of spilled corn.

 

[Arickvan]

I wonder if they were empty? I don't see a lot of spilled corn.

ya thats a good point, they had to have been empty

still crazy that it exceeded the windload, im off to google to look at more windload failures now

 

[[486]]

I wonder if they were empty? I don't see a lot of spilled corn.

harvest time is coming up, if it hasn't started
meaning: storage is going to be empty

 

[NOTHINGWILLCHANGELANCE]

To pick those stalks off the ground, you either have to hire high school kids to walk it and hand pick it, or put a reel on the corn head and go one way against the grain. Major pain in the dick no matter what. Whoever said something about dollar bills laying on the ground, reminded me of my dad saying “if you had 50,000$ on the floor, you’d bend over and it up, right?”

also assumes its not rotten. wasn't done filling out either.

 

[NOTHINGWILLCHANGELANCE]

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harvest time is coming up, if it hasn't started
meaning: storage is going to be empty

best crop yields in a long long time are expected. everyone emptied out to make space. with last years crop being wet and kinda cruddy no one is hanging on to anything.

 

[_stucky]

Full grain bins don’t usually blow away.

We have a lot with 12 bins on it. 2 rows of 6. A few years ago, we had spent a couple days emptying some of them. Neighbors were outside watching a storm roll in. The bin closest to their house, the wind caught it, ripped the roof off, it goes way up in the air, spinning. At the same time, the side caved in and the bin went to the ground against the next one over. The roof landed a good 30 or so feet away, upside down, in the middle of the 2 rows of bins. Every bin that had something in it was fine, every bin that was empty had something mangled, roof panels with bolts ripped out, bent in sides, etc etc etc. That same storm, about a mile south, we have another lot that had 4 bins. We had emptied the 2 smaller ones recently. The 2 smaller ones were both scattered across the field they are next to, but mostly were still together. We finally cleaned up the concrete bases last week. The 2 small bins had a big one in between them that the sides caved in pretty good. I believe that one was partially full. Good times good times.