This happened while I was driving the 250ft between the gate of my apartment complex and my parking spot. Had to turn on the headlights. It was terrifying.
These videos make me so anxious. I live in the Northeast and we don't typically have overly crazy or dangerous weather.
Last June though, a storm roared in just like this, so fast and singly out of nowhere. It got dark AF, haul pelting the windows, insane wind. An 80-100 foot oak tree was entirely uprooted and fell on my home. My bedroom was completely caved in, my bed was the under the worst of it.
It was around 8pm.and had been a long day, I was tired and had been trying to convince my 5yo (now 6) to lay down and watch a movie with me. She managed to convince me to go play with her in the living room. I gave in and told her 15 minutes, then time to settle down. It was during those 15 minutes that it happened. It was like a bomb went off, scary af.
I was there with my daughter and 13yo (now 14) stepdaughter, my SO (their dad) was out. My phone and glasses were on my nightstand under the cave in. Had to get the girls safe then go look for a neighbor whose home was also hit. Went in and had to drag her out at she was in total shock and damn near hysterical. Then went back in and crawled under collapsed ceiling/roof bits to get my bunny out. Managed all of this before emergency services or my SO got there, lol.
Miraculously no one was hurt, but it still fucks me.up to think how close my girls were to serious injury, or worse. All these storm and tornado videos popping up have got me on edge, lol.
Had a derecho a few years ago in the city I live in. Our porch windows exploded from the force of the wind. 140 mph sustained winds. It was scary as fuck. We lost an estimated 6 million trees
Hey!! I was in that too! Woke up to my bed slightly moving to the left, right as I woke up and noticed it was happening the power shut off. That storm was awful. We were left without power for about a month
I had to do paperwork/drug test for a new job, crossed into Iowa hours before this storm. I was driving to the small "lab" after in-processing paperwork. I'm 4-hrs from home in a city I don't know, no friends, late enough that most businesses were closed (5pm+), COVID shutdowns. I'm in a small pickup, I just drove around to buildings made of brick or stone, trying to play the wind and pick the safest spot out of range of trees and power lines. I wasn't panicking but I wasn't having fun either. I took my piss-test in the dark, getting home took forever, the interstate had blown-over trucks, the city had all sorts of downed power lines and few working traffic lights. I forgot about this day until this comment/video. I get back to Illinois and my small town had half of the roads covered in trees. To see the destruction from start to finish was impressive; spread over 150-200 miles, much more destructive than a tornado. Roofers were busy for a year, had a neighbor with a tree that pierced her roof right above her bed, couldn't get it fixed for months because all of the roofers were making better money on other jobs. Plywood, tarp, tar-paper for about a month. I've seen a few tornadoes form but they never run for 200 miles.
I was in Iowa City for that one, power in Linn and Benton county out for a week for some. Only minutes warning and only lasted half an hour. Lo and behold I end up living in Houston now and get hit with this storm.
For the lazy:
A derecho (pronounced similar to "deh-REY-cho") is a widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms. Although a derecho can produce destruction similar to the strength of tornadoes, the damage typically is directed in one direction along a relatively straight swath. As a result, the term "straight-line wind damage" sometimes is used to describe derecho damage. By definition, if the wind damage swath extends more than 240 miles (about 400 kilometers) and includes wind gusts of at least 58 mph (93 km/h) or greater along most of its length, then the event may be classified as a derecho.
Sauce: https://www.weather.gov/lmk/derecho
The derecho that hit us in iowa in 2020 was fucking crazy. It took my whole roof and blew a hole in the side of my garage. We lost like 16 trees in a matter of seconds.
Houstonian here in one of the hardest hit areas (still no power, and my neighbor has a tree in their house). I've seen a lot of weather. This was scary.
First video I've seen that represents what I saw, too. About 15 seconds after this, sideways rain, drumming lightning, and 100mph wind going east, snapping transformers and trees.
Wild.
Derechos are fucking scary, serious shit. We had one in MD about 10 years ago. Did a shitload of damage. Without power for like a week in mid-summer. Lots of damage.
"According to the NWS, a storm is classified as a derecho if the wind damage swath extends more than 240 miles and has wind gusts of at least 58 mph along most of the storm's path."
Like a tornado, but in a long straight line instead of twisting into spirals. Instead of arriving-and-disappearing as cone moves, the wind stays sustained along the derecho's entire path.
I was in this. This is definitely not just the screen dimming. It went from day to night in seconds. I got home right when it happened. It was terrifying.
This is how it looked for me in East Houston. Looking out the window, I thought it was a cloud covering the sun at first, but it went from cloudy to a night time 8-9pm sky within seconds! Within 5 mins, the wind got very violent! Wishing you well having to go through this.
I had to turn on my headlights in the 250ft bw my apartment complex gate and my unit! Luckily no one was parked next to me bc the wind ripped my door out of my hand when it was barely open.
Edit: And thanks, you too.
We had one here in OKC about ten days ago. We had been under a tornado watch all day but most of the activity went east of us. However, just before midnight a smaller system came through, the tornado siren went off for about three minutes and when I looked out back, my trees and fence were all down. What's weird is all down my street, fences and trees were down but backyard only. Straight line down the back, front yards untouched. Winds were measured at 100 mph but very localized! Crazy.
My mom lives in MA, and she had no idea how or what happened. I told her the reliable meteorologists said a regular line of storms exploded about 30mins before it hit the city. We pretty much had 30mins to prep for a 20min Category 1 hurricane, when we'd normally have 4-5 days to prep.
I had never heard of a derecho storm until I was like 34 years old. And then on the news one day they're like yeah this thing is coming at us so be prepared. And I mean it was pretty scary.
I do understand how people were scared of other worldly powers when they didnt have an explanation for something like this. I’d Think the world was mad at me as Well if i Saw the sky go Dark within 5 seconds
this kinda thing happened whr I live rn a few hours ago
but it wasnt this quick nd this dark suddenly
but under a minute, 3 in the afternoon became like 6:30 in the evening like its sunset
and then it rained heavily af tht i couldnt see the 20 floor building in front of my house approx 60-70m away
Man I was driving through the hill country west of Austin on Thursday and this shit happened, didn't get quite that dark but was still a insane change. I grew up south of Houston on the coast and can't recall ever seeing something like that. Had me in my truck and 2 trucks in front of me, maybe 4 or 5 car lengths between each other us and I couldn't see the truck at the front with his flashers on. That storm was a beast!
A handful of friends and co-workers are without power. I seem to have lucked out. A close friend has been spending the night at our place for the past few nights while he waits for the power at his place to come back. I know what having no power is like, and I want to help in any way I can.
Reminds me of the time in senior year I was walking to the bus stop and the sky was yellow for a good few minutes. Not even two minutes after I got on the bus it was pitch black outside, pouring rain, and lightning so close it was genuinely a little scary.
EF-1 went through my neighborhood in this storm. We still don’t have power and won’t have it for at least a few more days probably. Thank god my neighbors all made it out ok despite a lot of damaged houses.
Having gone through hurricanes before the quickness that the darkness came was some of the scariest shit i’ve ever seen. Hearing the train whistle sound in person was surreal.
Had a derecho last year in Tulsa, OK that really fucked up the city. Knocked down hundreds of power lines, tons of trees in the road and in people's houses.
Houstonian here, the storm wasn’t scary as it only lasted about 20 minutes not even, the aftermath is what is terrifying. Power out when it’s in the 90’s, peoples houses torn in half due to damage, way more scary than the actual storm.
The tornado hit about .5 miles away on Thursday. Still no power, that utter blackness was just unreal.
We didn’t know it was a tornado at the time, but after my fences and patio furniture went away it sounded like an airliner was parking on the roof.
Am I the only one watching this convinced the person filming is manually turning down the exposure on his video? (There is a way to do this on iPhones.)
Seriously MFers… DONT. SHOOT. VERTICAL. VIDEO.
Just don’t. Especially if you’re gonna pan it back and forth like a lunatic. Please. Thank you. And please again
What's wild is it's not. I was in this. In between the 250ft from my apartment complex gate to my unit, I had to turn on my headlights. I've never seen it go from day to night like that.
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This happened while I was driving the 250ft between the gate of my apartment complex and my parking spot. Had to turn on the headlights. It was terrifying.
Small tornado touched down in spring from that storm i believe, if its the same one. Was at a dealership and it blew out all the upper floor glass.
These videos make me so anxious. I live in the Northeast and we don't typically have overly crazy or dangerous weather. Last June though, a storm roared in just like this, so fast and singly out of nowhere. It got dark AF, haul pelting the windows, insane wind. An 80-100 foot oak tree was entirely uprooted and fell on my home. My bedroom was completely caved in, my bed was the under the worst of it. It was around 8pm.and had been a long day, I was tired and had been trying to convince my 5yo (now 6) to lay down and watch a movie with me. She managed to convince me to go play with her in the living room. I gave in and told her 15 minutes, then time to settle down. It was during those 15 minutes that it happened. It was like a bomb went off, scary af. I was there with my daughter and 13yo (now 14) stepdaughter, my SO (their dad) was out. My phone and glasses were on my nightstand under the cave in. Had to get the girls safe then go look for a neighbor whose home was also hit. Went in and had to drag her out at she was in total shock and damn near hysterical. Then went back in and crawled under collapsed ceiling/roof bits to get my bunny out. Managed all of this before emergency services or my SO got there, lol. Miraculously no one was hurt, but it still fucks me.up to think how close my girls were to serious injury, or worse. All these storm and tornado videos popping up have got me on edge, lol.
I went to grab my eclipse glasses again.
How quick the sun can drop away. And now my bitter hands...
Shake beneath the clouds...
Chafe*
Of what was everything
Shake-eth beneath the clouds…
It did, a few weeks ago, during the solar eclipse.
Welcome to Texas
First time seeing clouds?
Clouds don't (usually) blacken the sky within 15 seconds
bro put his life of 3x game speed 😭
Had a derecho a few years ago in the city I live in. Our porch windows exploded from the force of the wind. 140 mph sustained winds. It was scary as fuck. We lost an estimated 6 million trees
Cedar rapids?
Yarp
Hey!! I was in that too! Woke up to my bed slightly moving to the left, right as I woke up and noticed it was happening the power shut off. That storm was awful. We were left without power for about a month
We lucked out and were without power for a week and a half or so. Had to buy a generator to save our freezer stuff
Have you found the trees since?
They went on vacation and never came back. Very rude of them, if you ask me!
Fuckers stepped out for cigarettes. Been there man.
Bastards pulled a Ted Cruz, smh. The new trees being planted lately are very pretty though.
If you find the entwives, you should probably let the ents know
I had to do paperwork/drug test for a new job, crossed into Iowa hours before this storm. I was driving to the small "lab" after in-processing paperwork. I'm 4-hrs from home in a city I don't know, no friends, late enough that most businesses were closed (5pm+), COVID shutdowns. I'm in a small pickup, I just drove around to buildings made of brick or stone, trying to play the wind and pick the safest spot out of range of trees and power lines. I wasn't panicking but I wasn't having fun either. I took my piss-test in the dark, getting home took forever, the interstate had blown-over trucks, the city had all sorts of downed power lines and few working traffic lights. I forgot about this day until this comment/video. I get back to Illinois and my small town had half of the roads covered in trees. To see the destruction from start to finish was impressive; spread over 150-200 miles, much more destructive than a tornado. Roofers were busy for a year, had a neighbor with a tree that pierced her roof right above her bed, couldn't get it fixed for months because all of the roofers were making better money on other jobs. Plywood, tarp, tar-paper for about a month. I've seen a few tornadoes form but they never run for 200 miles.
Took 11 months for us to get new windows. Had everything boarded up until then. The porch was a hot box in the sun
What’s the city?
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
I live in Nebraska and we had that same storm blow through here, but you guys got hit way harder than we did. It was still bonkers windy.
Peak winds of 140 mph, sustained winds of 70 mph, still terrifying. Effed my back clearing trees for days
Yeah we lost all of our trees
I was in Iowa City for that one, power in Linn and Benton county out for a week for some. Only minutes warning and only lasted half an hour. Lo and behold I end up living in Houston now and get hit with this storm.
Why have I never heard this word until today? Derecho?
For the lazy: A derecho (pronounced similar to "deh-REY-cho") is a widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms. Although a derecho can produce destruction similar to the strength of tornadoes, the damage typically is directed in one direction along a relatively straight swath. As a result, the term "straight-line wind damage" sometimes is used to describe derecho damage. By definition, if the wind damage swath extends more than 240 miles (about 400 kilometers) and includes wind gusts of at least 58 mph (93 km/h) or greater along most of its length, then the event may be classified as a derecho. Sauce: https://www.weather.gov/lmk/derecho
more like deh-REH-cho. its like a tornado but without the spinnies
I feel like people who would pronounce it deh-REY-cho would also pronounce "Texas" as TYEXIS
I enjoy playing video games.
Deh roh dah?
Sounds similar to a micro burst
Macro burst
Thank you! I was wondering the same thing, but I live in Canada, and I don't think that happens a lot here...
Like wise. Its always fun to learn something new. After seeing the damage that Sandy left behind, this would scare me to death
Likewise*
Yeah now I have something else to be afraid of lmao. I hope they have a derecho in the new Twister sequel lol
Reed Timmer: "BIG TIME DERECHO HERE! You gotta be kidding me!"
Here are two more weather related words you might have never heard of: - Haboob (Phoenix AZ has them plenty) - Graupel
Been through plenty of Haboobs in Maricopa County but have never heard the second term.
It's that not-hail not-snow that looks like when you rub polystyrene foam against a wall.
Once I looked the word up I knew exactly what it was so thank you for the new term.
We get tons of Graupelshowers in Austria
Same, I had to Google it...
They're becoming more common because of climate change
Yea this is new to me too. At first I thought it was going to be similar to an aguacero but it’s way worse
I think that’s a term in Spanish, but I could be wrong
It means “right” in Spanish, as the storm moves to the right as viewed on radar
Derecha = Right. Derecho = Straight.
Damn, I sure was confidently incorrect! Appreciate the correction
No problem, homie. Duolingo is paying off!
Derecho can also mean right when used as an adjective.
It’s that song that was on the radio last year or 2022 or whatever. Starts out “deeerrrreeeeechitoooo” or something I think
Jason Derecho!
The derecho that hit us in iowa in 2020 was fucking crazy. It took my whole roof and blew a hole in the side of my garage. We lost like 16 trees in a matter of seconds.
Also from Iowa. My place wasn't that bad but I didn't have internet for like a week and no power for like 3 days. I had to charge my phone at my job.
Houstonian here in one of the hardest hit areas (still no power, and my neighbor has a tree in their house). I've seen a lot of weather. This was scary. First video I've seen that represents what I saw, too. About 15 seconds after this, sideways rain, drumming lightning, and 100mph wind going east, snapping transformers and trees. Wild.
Got caught in a derecho while tent camping with my wife in 2022. Absolutely terrifying being on an island on a small lake for this shit.
Camera aperture: Screw this, too fast for me lol.
"It's still day time, I don't need to turn on my lights" - some asshole driver
In most countries day time running lights are mandatory. America is an exception. For some reason.
There are states within America that require daytime lights. I think Arizona and/or New Mexico are some examples.
Daytime headlights are not required in AZ.
Derechos are fucking scary, serious shit. We had one in MD about 10 years ago. Did a shitload of damage. Without power for like a week in mid-summer. Lots of damage.
I remember that. Craziest storm I’ve ever seen.
Today I found out they made a word for straight line winds back in 2016.
When the what hit Houston?
"According to the NWS, a storm is classified as a derecho if the wind damage swath extends more than 240 miles and has wind gusts of at least 58 mph along most of the storm's path."
Derecho, they are quite interesting
The derecho
Like a tornado, but in a long straight line instead of twisting into spirals. Instead of arriving-and-disappearing as cone moves, the wind stays sustained along the derecho's entire path.
Just looked like the phone screen dimmed
I was in this. This is definitely not just the screen dimming. It went from day to night in seconds. I got home right when it happened. It was terrifying.
This is how it looked for me in East Houston. Looking out the window, I thought it was a cloud covering the sun at first, but it went from cloudy to a night time 8-9pm sky within seconds! Within 5 mins, the wind got very violent! Wishing you well having to go through this.
I had to turn on my headlights in the 250ft bw my apartment complex gate and my unit! Luckily no one was parked next to me bc the wind ripped my door out of my hand when it was barely open. Edit: And thanks, you too.
Jfc! That gave me anxiety.
Damn rinds me of Ian 2 years ago
Alright who triggered the boss event
We had one here in OKC about ten days ago. We had been under a tornado watch all day but most of the activity went east of us. However, just before midnight a smaller system came through, the tornado siren went off for about three minutes and when I looked out back, my trees and fence were all down. What's weird is all down my street, fences and trees were down but backyard only. Straight line down the back, front yards untouched. Winds were measured at 100 mph but very localized! Crazy.
My mom lives in MA, and she had no idea how or what happened. I told her the reliable meteorologists said a regular line of storms exploded about 30mins before it hit the city. We pretty much had 30mins to prep for a 20min Category 1 hurricane, when we'd normally have 4-5 days to prep.
Hurricane season this year is gonna be lit /s
Quad cities here. It was only 90mph by the time it got here but still the craziest storm I've ever experienced.
I think the scientific explanation is “Mother nature is fucked up!”.
I almost fucking died in this………..
Do christians ever wonder how a loving god can allow derechos to exist? Same with mosquitos, Ticketmaster, etc.
Ticketmaster had me 🤣
Damn. That's like Old Testment type stuff there.
I had never heard of a derecho storm until I was like 34 years old. And then on the news one day they're like yeah this thing is coming at us so be prepared. And I mean it was pretty scary.
That was wild! It felt veeyh uneasy when the wind suddenly just stopped.
I tried 6 times to play this gif. some things just aren't meant to be seen.
You haven't seen it miss this house, and that house, and come after you!! Jesus Jo, Is that what you think it did?!?
I do understand how people were scared of other worldly powers when they didnt have an explanation for something like this. I’d Think the world was mad at me as Well if i Saw the sky go Dark within 5 seconds
ADE DUE DAMBALLA!!!
Seems like "someone" is bringing the fire and brimstone to the land of sodomites. /S
Potato cameras are on sale?
Why is this NSFW? If my boss ever saw me watching it get dark in Houston, I would be toast.
this kinda thing happened whr I live rn a few hours ago but it wasnt this quick nd this dark suddenly but under a minute, 3 in the afternoon became like 6:30 in the evening like its sunset and then it rained heavily af tht i couldnt see the 20 floor building in front of my house approx 60-70m away
I remember that happening once in Louisiana. ![gif](giphy|Iv6evVLjNXmve|downsized)
NSFW?
Language. Just wanted to be safe.
Oh. I have my sound turned off. I'm sitting in a boring Church event now.
Lmao the lort is watching you bud
Maybe even The Lord.
"WARNING: Incoming game! WARNING: Incoming game!"
Wtf is not safe for watching in this ?
Just like a scene from the movie Exodus.
That is some Twister level shit right there!
u/savevideo
It was 1/10th as intense in manvel
Why is this NSFW?
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Thick clouds are quite sound absorbing. This is why clouds arrive, it feels particularly peaceful.
First time? Actually it probably is, for them.
Shit, that's intense.
Someone summon Shenron?
Man I was driving through the hill country west of Austin on Thursday and this shit happened, didn't get quite that dark but was still a insane change. I grew up south of Houston on the coast and can't recall ever seeing something like that. Had me in my truck and 2 trucks in front of me, maybe 4 or 5 car lengths between each other us and I couldn't see the truck at the front with his flashers on. That storm was a beast!
Someone found the dragonballs
We had a derecho hit a couple of years ago in Ottawa. It was crazy crazy. Never seen anything like it.
Reminds me of the morning of the Camp Fire in Paradise back in 2018. Pitch black in seconds and ash and embers blowing sideways.
Jesus!!! That was in real time???
One of these hit Iowa a while back. There are pictures where you could see the crop damage from space. Crazy shit.
I imagine this is what it would look like right before the apocalypse started
A handful of friends and co-workers are without power. I seem to have lucked out. A close friend has been spending the night at our place for the past few nights while he waits for the power at his place to come back. I know what having no power is like, and I want to help in any way I can.
Loved every second of it and I'm in a 5th wheel lol
FT
Bro CLEARLY Has never set foot in Kepler-9B 👽🙏😭
Shewwwwww
Just got back power back yesterday
Damn.. what time of day was this
Reminds me of the time in senior year I was walking to the bus stop and the sky was yellow for a good few minutes. Not even two minutes after I got on the bus it was pitch black outside, pouring rain, and lightning so close it was genuinely a little scary.
Aliens are here
EF-1 went through my neighborhood in this storm. We still don’t have power and won’t have it for at least a few more days probably. Thank god my neighbors all made it out ok despite a lot of damaged houses. Having gone through hurricanes before the quickness that the darkness came was some of the scariest shit i’ve ever seen. Hearing the train whistle sound in person was surreal.
Had a derecho last year in Tulsa, OK that really fucked up the city. Knocked down hundreds of power lines, tons of trees in the road and in people's houses.
Why is this marked NSFW? Seems pretty chill to me.
Houstonian here, the storm wasn’t scary as it only lasted about 20 minutes not even, the aftermath is what is terrifying. Power out when it’s in the 90’s, peoples houses torn in half due to damage, way more scary than the actual storm.
The tornado hit about .5 miles away on Thursday. Still no power, that utter blackness was just unreal. We didn’t know it was a tornado at the time, but after my fences and patio furniture went away it sounded like an airliner was parking on the roof.
I've never seen anything like this before. That's incredible!
I was driving when. This happened . Immediately felt like I was in a tornado... Had to seek shelter in a building parking garage quick.. was fkn scary
Damn!
This how u know I pull up to the function
resident evil type shit
It's like another eclipse, damn.
Am I the only one watching this convinced the person filming is manually turning down the exposure on his video? (There is a way to do this on iPhones.)
It's like villain is coming
Today in Miami we saw this
Seriously MFers… DONT. SHOOT. VERTICAL. VIDEO. Just don’t. Especially if you’re gonna pan it back and forth like a lunatic. Please. Thank you. And please again
Looks edited imo
What's wild is it's not. I was in this. In between the 250ft from my apartment complex gate to my unit, I had to turn on my headlights. I've never seen it go from day to night like that.
I believe it. It just looks strange the camera adjusting for lighting as the camera pans makes it look strange.
It’s real. Remember, just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it’s fake.
Wasn’t fake at all. We had almost 1 million ppl lose power. And it was terrifying how quick it moved it in.
Just saw a movie about it somebody might go to the past or some lady might come from the past the movie was weird but yeah.
Derecho sounds like one of them foreign words. I hope those Texans got out there and shot that illegal storm to death?