Severe weather

Looks like 70-90 mph winds or tornados moving through eastern iowa

I hope that line weakens coming across Lake Michigan. I can live without it.

Nasty blizzard in western and central ND. Lot of power outages and students stuck overnight in schools with no power.

I'm getting tired of the constant high wind. A tornado missed us by about a mile last Tuesday night. We were in the cellar, but we could hear it go past.

Was a little blustery in south west Wisconsin, power only flickered couple times, but stayed on.

We got lucky in my part of northwest Iowa. Pea sized hail in very small drifts against the buildings, short heavy rain and 50 MPH gusts. Didn't last long.

In the 37 years I've lived here there have been 3 cross the property. Thank goodness little damage. On one occasion I was forewarned and we were in the tornado cellar (out in the yard, not under the house), about a 9x10 concrete oval with a stack at the N and S end. Tornado came across the front lawn past the house and shelter. Sounded like a train coming by in the N vent and then the sound moved on by to the S vent and disappeared.

5 small tornados Cat 0 I guess in that storm that hit our hill that afternoon. It came at us from the NE (not the SW...... the NE and backed up to the SW).....the storm went E down the Red River, stopped, intensified, and backed up. It tore up some neighbors somewhat; partial roof lost on one house, old barn demolished on adjacent property, both hit by the one that came across my front lawn. I lost part of a big Pecan tree in the front yard.

That bunch that tore up E. Dallas and Garland, Tx. over a year ago came on up this way and there were 3 that passed us on both sides that evening. One broadsided a pair of trailer houses up the road and killed a baby besides tearing up some cross country power line towers and numerous other dwellings. We had very minor damage and were very lucky considering the event that evening.