Calm to Chaos - Moments Before Derecho Storm 8/10/20 - Ankeny, Iowa

So much for Noah's warning 😢😢😢😮😮

Anybody else bothered by the BIG Ass weeds

Trash can held its ground for a while lol

Not trying to downplay this AT ALL, it's scary af, but there's different video of a Derecho hitting, and I can't remember the state, but it's here on YT. A tree in the front yard was like the trash can in this video, lol, everyone was rooting for it (pun intended I guess 😂). The winds were WAYYY worse than this. Probably one of the scariest weather videos I've ever. If I find it (and then this video again), I'll post the link.

Meh, been through worse.

If you think a derecho is bad enough, it can form a HABOOB if the weather has been really dry beforehand! Just ask the people of Broken Hill, Australia about that!

Haboob: A ground-hugging, wedge-shaped dust storm. A dense enough haboob can literally turn midday into PITCH-BLACK!

I saw a school bus drive by! They were bringing kids home in this?

Like 40 mph winds😂 not that bad

I love how the most replayed part is the trash can blowing over

You close to the ball fields? I was fortunate to live by them and their sirens are stupid loud. Was just me in the house and helped me get all my pets downstairs.

My family and I went through of these but we had no warning it just came in no sirens no weather alert we had to get in our car because of how windy it was and we where worried a tree might fall on our house, after the storm passed there was no power for a whole week because every neighborhood lost power so it took a while for the power company to get to us.

I’m impressed that the mailboxes didn’t move. Usually they’re the first to rock in storms - if you believe Hollywood

Dude must be living incredible close to that Federal signal 2001 siren for it to be that loud is like having it 8 houses away

Those sunflowers refused to give up the ghost.

They should cut to an old lady flying down the street with her walker.

It was so intense that the trash can fell over but didn’t blow away.

My sil gave me drink coasters made from the trees that went down in the derecho Cedar Rapids.

I always have told my kids... listen..LISTEN ..to the animals. I witnessed this one day as I knocked on a friend door. ALL OF A SUDDEN the birds in the nearby trees stopped chirping ànd grew still. Then they shook took off in to the air, quiet as a mouse. Suddenly 🎉the ground started shaking. A real live earthquake, iin the midwest area of indiana that usually doesn't have earthquakes. The birds,knew 30 sec befor the ground shook. Listen to you cats and dogs. They sense things .we can't hear or feel

Wow! It knocked the trash can down. Mind you, it didn't move it after it blew over, but it knocked it down. Scary stuff!

No wind to all the wind all at once.

Such a beautiful part of the country, wide open land, great people. But, living there does come with a cost. Hey, I’ll take the occasional tornado/derecho than the bs we deal with in the cities on the east coast😂

I live in Des Moines unfortunately. I hope I die in a tornado. Ef5 hits Des Moines June of 2023 I'ma stand outside for the entire thing.

IS THAT CAN EMPTY OR FULL ? ? ? PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW ! ! !

THAT was a derecho? Where’s this “chaos” you speak of? It rained & was a little windy. It didn’t knock down trees, it didn’t even move the garbage can. 🤷‍♀️ Maybe it’s bc I live in Tornado Alley, but this isn’t even considered a bad thunderstorm where I’m from.

As soon as the video started, my first thought was "GRAB THE TRASH CAN!!!!!"

Damn I was in the middle of this shit

That trashcan can withstand more than most relationships nowadays.

law

Weak

The white flower 🤍

Another 10 minutes of my life wasted...

The birds stopped chirping 😳😳😳🐦🐦

Ive done research and guess what these are common in Iowa like yearly I think. I will never move thier!

School bus!?!

You guys didn't have much warning, it seems. I live in Eastern Iowa near the Mississippi River, and we had a lot more warning that this was coming. We had time to put most of our outdoor stuff away. (including our garbage can) Our storm was a lot like yours. There were some old trees that got uprooted a few houses from us. I won't ever forget this day!

thank you for that powerful video.

Don't mean to demean what South Dakota went through as I have seen many videos, but this particular video looked like our regular summer storms except we have dangerous lightning, thunder and hail. As I said not demeaning what you went through, as I have seen the devastation of other areas, but just sharing what our usual summer storms are like. Cheers from Queensland Australia.

The safest the safest place in this whole thing was inside the garbage can put up against the tree right there get inside close the lid and just stay safe

Chaos? It turned a garbage can over.

I need that trash can

That is a storm? At least you got some rain out of it. Here in Las Vegas, 75+ MPH winds, especially in the spring are part an parcel of life here.

I live in the city and everytime a tornado is spotted, that siren goes off and it's LOUD, just like yours is but I'm still thankful it does!

This derecho was headed straight for us in Sioux Falls, but at the last minute, it took a right turn and headed a bit more south and spared us. We weren't as lucky on May 12, 2022, when we WERE hit by a derecho. I wonder how ours would have compared to this earlier one. The one that hit us in May hit 4 states, and it turned day into night. Three people were killed: two in South Dakota (including one in Sioux Falls) and one in Minnesota. Our wind hit a peak of 107 mph in S. Dakota. Some people called it a derecho...some called it a haboob, so I call it a derechaboob, ha!

9.51 minutes of waiting for the chaos?

Tornado sirens are just music to my ears

I had high hopes for that garbage can for awhile. I was more focused on its durability until it tipped over and then I was like “DAMMIT!”

That trash can has a mercury liner.

I’m sure it was worrisome…. But this is the the most pathetic weather video I’ve seen. Heck, I live in Vermont, where we don’t ever get any storms worth mentioning…. and you post this?? Good Lord! You should be monumentally embarrassed!