It was north of me in Iowa then the bow shaped storm dipped southeast slightly. I posted yesterday that much of the electricity was out from the middle of the state, Iowa, to the Mississippi River. From a friend who lives near Des Moines she will not have electricity for a week if not longer. The news stations there are reported that the corn crop has received major damage. Wind storms can leave corn fields so twisted that they can not be harvested by machinery.

Live in south central Iowa, a smidge SW of DSM ... had a lot, and I mean a lot of tree damage. Had a hail storm about a month ago and the town librarian got a new roof out of it ... well, she needs another on where the tree came for a visit.

No power outages here, but up DSM way [30 miles away] they had a quarter million households w/o power. Some will take days to restore. Corn in the area was flattened for miles and miles.

and this is what it did to crops ...

I’m in the NW Chicago suburbs and lost 2 shutters off the house and a few planters blown over. There were 7 tornadoes in the Chicago area with the closest one only 15 miles away. Yet in my neighborhood, there were only a few small branches blown off trees. We were very fortunate.

I was lucky at the storm shifted south of me so I only had a little rain. My husband, who lives just east of Clinton Iowa lost power but have no real damage. As of right now they are saying power won't be restored until 14th. I keep checking the ComEd site and so far his area looks to be still out of power.

HU, what suburb? I grew up in AH

DS lives only a little over a mile from where a tornado hit near the lake in a Chicago neighborhood, but his building was okay. He did say he could feel it, though, and trees and branches were down around him.

It was far from me -- I live in SE Kansas.

MN here. Spectacular light show with rain and thunder all night, but surprisingly little damage in my area.

And I'm in central Wisconsin so it was all south of me.

Just a little over a year ago, we had a wind event that lasted only about 15 minutes. 70 mph wind. Many, many trees went down and not a few ended up on tops of houses. We had a lot of limbs on top of our house and one punctured the roof. Huge mess. There were weeks of hearing chainsaws running in the background.

I was alone with the mess. DH was in the hospital when it happened. Emergency surgery + another surgery. 2 wks in hospital (40 miles away) then extended recovery at home w/ a wound pump, etc. DS was in backpacking in Europe & the UK all summer. Forget calling anyone for hire; they were all busy & booked up for months. My neighbor's SIL came over and got the limbs off the roof, patched the hole & blew the debris off the roof. Thank you, Jace! The rest was up to me. With only a tinker toy electric chain saw because my gas chainsaw was down for repair. (Forget getting that repaired because half the county was ahead of me w/ their broken chainsaws...) No chainsaws, generators, etc. at the local stores, either. Sold out.

If the power was out, I don't remember! If so, it was briefly at my house. And I was lucky because other people in the area were w/o power for days.

All of this was on the heels of a major ice/ wind storm that wreaked havoc w/ lots of downed trees & limbs less than a year before the last windstorm. (Which may have helped to keep the trees in the yard from coming down on the house w/ the subsequent windstorm.)

After two huge clean-ups w/in a year, we made the decision to have some trees removed entirely. We had them taken down in June so I'm still dealing with that--lawn repair, etc. now.

Anyway, all is mostly in the rearview mirror for me. Just relating what I know a lot of other people are going thru. It's not 'How you want to spend your summer vacation'.! :-)

I'm in the KC area so the derecho stayed north of me but this past Monday afternoon my area got hit with a severe storm with 70+ mph winds that brought down 2 big oak trees and numerous other limbs. There may be more tree damage that I haven't seen yet. I have 5+ acres and most of it is forest. Luckily no damage to the house.

SW MI here... lost power Monday evening, and it came back up yesterday evening. Not too bad considering the original ETA was Friday at 11 PM.

DH and I spent half an hour in the basement after receiving a phone alert and looking at the radar online. When the interference on the small radio let up and we could see it getting less dark outside, we emerged. We had one small limb from a neighbor's dead tree in our backyard. That was 'it' for us, about a mile west of Lake Michigan and 30 miles north of Chicago. The lake tends to 'protect' us, whereas areas south of an E-W line along the southern tip of the lake often take a beating. It was unusual that there was damage (even a few small tornadoes) north of that. The bad thing about this storm was the high winds. That was also the good thing, as it passed over very fast.

Our DS got some wild photos as the storm came at him on the east side of the lake near St. Joseph in Michigan. The tornadoes become water spouts over the lake.

It looks like this storm tried to take out the entire state of Iowa. This hurts them and the rest of the country.

Until this storm I had never heard of the word derecho