My brother lives just north of Iowa City and says you can drive the roads and see fields and fields of corn all laying flat on the ground, soybeans stripped of leaves. Going to be a lot of losses this year.
That doesn’t count the crops in Illinois. We got hit by that storm where I am. Crawl space flooded. Roof damaged a bit. The garden was ok. One of the neighbors had his bathroom window blown out. Lots of wind in that one.
We were hit by a Derecho, a storm system with straight line hurricane force winds for over .5 hours (115 miles per hour). The devastation resembles the aftermath of a hurricane. Thankfully few lives lost, but clean-up will take months
On the positive side, we were in NW Iowa this week and the corn looked fantastic, as well as the beans. It’s such a bumper crop this year that even with these loses, I would not be surprised if the farmers do well in spite of the damage.
Let us also remember that this type of storm is not an unusual occurrence in Iowa. It does happen from time to time.
We are in the Quad Cities (Iowa) and were without power for about 24 hours. We just minutes ago got our internet back, from Monday, early afternoon when it rolled through. Looked like a war zone around here in spots. We lost the top of our big Maple tree in the back yard but fortunately no structural damage to the house. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen. 90 mile an hour straight line winds.