On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 21:04:40 GMT, (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

writes:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 23:34:40 -0400, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:33:11 -0700, % wrote:

On 2020-08-14 12:22 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Friday, August 14, 2020 at 2:32:26 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 07:09:17 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

On Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 8:27:35 PM UTC-4, Dean Hoffman wrote:
About a third of Iowa's crops are damaged.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/derecho-iowa-crop-land-farmland-midwest-damage-severe-weather-corn-soybean-disaster-10-million
Farmers have insurance but now they can argue with the insurance
companies.
More pictures from the Des Moines Register.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/weather/2020/08/10/derecho-storm-iowa-city-damage-power-outage/3338604001/
This storm has an unusual name, derecho. It was a straight wind, not
tornadoes, that did this.

Yes, the name is unusual. They've been using it in the popular press for--what?--20 years, perhaps. But meteorologists have been using it for much
longer than that. Like the polar vortex, the scientific term was slow to
make it to the newspapers.

I recall one that came through Ann Arbor in the late 70s or early 80s.
That was an oddball; they usually stay below the Great Lakes.

Cindy Hamilton

The news people along with a few meteorologists seem to me making up
names these days for damned near anything.

Derecho was used in the late 1880s by a meteorologist.

I wish they'd stop naming snowstorms, though. That's just dumb.

Cindy Hamilton

typing OT in the subject line is what's dumb ,
like it makes it ok to be off topic so long as there's an OT ,
if you want to talk about weather go to a weather group


You don't think there is going to be a LOT of "home repair" required
from 120MPH winds?????

It depends a lot on the wind code they build to, Unfortunately that is
80 or less in most places. It is 150 here and 160 a few miles west of
me.

You don't think that tornado alley has similar requirements? Why not?

I think they just gave up and decided the tornado is taking it anyway.
FEMA does have tornado proof structure plans but that is not the
standard building practice. They will just build safe rooms instead of
underground shelters.

Florida may have the strongest wind code in the US (I would bet on it)
but I could be wrong. I think we are also the only state that
separates wind storm from homeowners insurance. (similar to flood),.
It is an additional policy.
I suspect that is because a tornado (F3-F5) is total devastation down
that narrow path but 50 feet away things are OK. Overall the damage
gets amortized over lots of customers who were OK. A hurricane can
wipe out whole counties even wide spread damage across most of the
state. It is a different risk category. By building to a substantial
wind code, most damage is averted. It is the same with strictly
enforcing the FEMA Flood plane.


http://gfretwell.com/electrical/2012...code%20map.jpg