Posted on 07/01/2026 10:31:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
THIS IS INSANE! 130 MPH winds destroyed windmills in South Dakota this morning. This is very rare. We hardly ever see windmills take this much damage from straight-line damaging winds. But when you push over 110 MPH winds, it becomes a lot easier for the windmills to crumble. Photos via Storm Chaser Jakob McMillin
Accuweather describes set up that will make for severe storms all week long More reports of widespread damage from tornado-force straight line winds below.
Ag Week:
A devastating windstorm ripped through central South Dakota on the morning of June 29.
According to the South Dakota State University Mesonet, at 6:25 a.m. Monday, wind gusts were reported at 131 miles per hour, with the wind speed at 76 miles per hour. Rainfall totaled 1.64 inches.
Videos of the aftermath in Highmore show extensive damage to the community. Destroyed buildings and grain bins and standing water could be seen throughout a large section of the town following the storm.
Grain bins in Highmore, S. D.
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“131 mph Straight Line Winds Knock Down Wind Turbines, Silos, Barns in S. Dakota”. Sustainable energy right?
Think how bad it would have been if those were curvy, wavy, twisty, or bendy winds!
Not enough wind, no electricity. Too much wind, no wind mill!
Wind turbines I could care less about... The rest I hope the farmers etc make out well.
SD needing wind power is like Iran needing nuclear power.
But aren’t windmills supposed to work in the... Oh, just forget about it.
Crop insurance on plants ripped from the ground these days might be a bit better than harvesting. Even if D drops another 20% by Sept 20, think most of the upper Midwest and great plains wants to maintain topsoil and break even in 2026. Ukraine seems not to be having problems planting a few miles behind the front lines. How close 114 day corn and 120 day wheat is planted behind the front lines is my indicator of the war in its 5 year.
How does one even BEGIN with a demo job like that??
And the wind moves on.
Who gives a crap?
A sawzall.............
Oh, well you can imagine...
Rock you like a hurricane.
They call these Derechos, or inland hurricanes. They are becoming quite common. We had one in 2020. It knocked down 50% of our trees and tore roofs off homes. I suspect geoengineering is responsible
I saw a bunch more photos of this event and it was kinda odd that ALL the windmills bent exactly the same way. (I’m not saying the photos were faked). They looked like “copy/paste”. I assume it could be because they were made by the same folks with the exact same tolerances. But it’s still kinda interesting. (At least to me).
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That’s going to take a few rolls of duct tape to fix it.
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