***Official 2023 Weather Thread***
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I-94 doing the Lord's work up here cutting off the bad weather 10 mi from our house.
In other news, my parents were on the edge of purple Friday and ended up not getting much. My mom commented about it being "overhyped" and I'm like well it was pretty serious other places - meaning IC, Little Rock, much of central IL, Memphis - and she commented yeah [place like 10 miles away] got it much worse. Facepalm. if it was bad that close to you, that's not overhyped. Forecasters aren't quite down to predicting the exact quarter section a tornado will drop into. They're more solidly into the purple this time so we'll see how that goes.
In CR, that's what's concerning to me. Friday, CR was right on the edge and one of the tornadoes came within 10 miles of the southside of the city and me. This time the high risk is further north.
KidSilverhair
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To be fair, tornadic activity passed on both sides of Cedar Rapids Friday. The most severe stuff, of course, went through Coralville and Hills and on northeast to Bellevue, but there were tornadoes around Vinton, too, with those cells passing to the north. CR still got plenty of damaging wind, but mainly got lucky as far as tornado paths go - I don’t think it had much to do with being on the edge of the extreme risk area.
Which only means, naturally, will our luck hold out Tuesday night, or will it be our turn in the barrel?
I hate it when that happens.
No chance this is accurate. 801, blah, blah.
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(still can’t believe old jimlad hasn’t been fixed)
Look @Gunnerclone post #2,145. If that is accurate, I’d say DSM is the bullseye, no?
Looks like it’s shifted west some tbh. Which puts Des Moines in the bad area.
We received our first estimate for the storm damage from Friday. Up to 25,000 in damages! We are located in West Ames(sunset ridge). All of our aluminum cladding/gutters on the southern exposer(street side), one of our outdoor lights. a bunch of cracked siding, some minor roof damage, several of our roof vents are cracked/leaking. I hope the next round of stuff doesn't cause a bunch more. I think we will be upgrading what we can to be more storm resilient. Bye Bye plastic roof vents. We had quarter sized hail, but I have never seen so much of it.
I'd like to think the 2020 Derecho gave us several turns over the barrel, but of course, it doesn't work like that.To be fair, tornadic activity passed on both sides of Cedar Rapids Friday. The most severe stuff, of course, went through Coralville and Hills and on northeast to Bellevue, but there were tornadoes around Vinton, too, with those cells passing to the north. CR still got plenty of damaging wind, but mainly got lucky as far as tornado paths go - I don’t think it had much to do with being on the edge of the extreme risk area.
Which only means, naturally, will our luck hold out Tuesday night, or will it be our turn in the barrel?
Waiting on my estimate in West Ames also - Did your estimate include siding replacement for the entire side of the house, or just individual broken pieces? Depending on age of siding, I've been hearing some of both.
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$35k at my place in north Ames - includes new roof (16 y.o.), gutters and garage doors, a few windows and south-facing siding.
I hate that big crease right through Wichita.