http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24801518

the town they talk about in this is about 15min away from were i live on the west side of it so all these storms riped threw were i live for college also.

this is sad for me because i worked for a guy in Parkersburg for a while it was a very nice town. they said they are keeping alot of peoplein waterloo schools as shelters

i didnt get any YAY! to bad for them tho tragic

there is someone on here who lives in Des Moines...who is it?

We played those guys in soccer....i was shocked to hear about 8 ppl dead. We played there at their feild too, shocking to know that half there towns gone now.

Come on hail, I need a new paint job, as my used car has lots of scratches and a totally red SE front end on a GT. I just hope it is not like the hail storm from two years ago that destroyed my roof, A\C unit, screens and rose bushes. Luckily my wife was already at her work where she parks in a parking garage, and I was feeding the kids getting ready for school.
Here is some hail that fell 10 miles across town.

http://www.ksn.com/news/local/19267199.html

i live about to hours from des moines....i was just their for a woods expo....i live in wall lake.....

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=10911&from=newslinker

there is the recent tornado and we are getting more now

Yea sounds like all those storms are heading towards us now. It'll be nice to listen to it pour as I put in my intake tomorrow.

that sucks, hope it dont hit me

iowa scout camp was destroyed by a twister yesterday, my heart stoped when i heard it because i was in scouts for years and about 4-5 times a year we would go to this camp as a group there was 4 killed and around 40 injured which is a sad thing. all 4 killed were scouts http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25107608


and we are having severe flooding were i am now all the towns are shut down

heard about that...that is very sad to hear. Hope the 40 injured come back good as new.

ya i just read about the scouts... makes me sad...

Meanwhile I'm dealing with 100*+ temps and no rain in site.

i could live with that...

My heart also skipped a beat as I thought of all my years in scouts and our experience last year of flooding here in KS. They kicked us out of camp 2 days early because the main road out of camp was under a foot of water and the secondary road had 2" of water running over it at first light. Two hours later once we were packed, it was 4".

My son decided to skip scout camp this year as he is bored with the camp they wanted to go to again. He asked if we could go up to the any of the funerals, of course I said yes. So I may be calling on you Iowa guys to lend me space for a tent next week.