Early this morning marked another milestone in our new home: our first trip to the basement for severe weather. I woke up around 3am to the sound of loud thunder and bright flashes of lightning, as well as the sound of our sump pump kicking on. I noticed Amy looking at her phone, after which she said she thought we should go the basement.
We camped out downstairs on our old couch (in fact, our basement very closely resembles our last little apartment in DC, most of our old furniture is down there with my home office), found that the Satellite TV wasn't working so well thanks to the storm, and proceeded to get updates via radio and the weather applications on our smartphones. The most helpful tool ended up being the weather apps on our phones. We could view the radar maps in nearly realtime to see when the worst of the storm had past.
Today while running some errands we noticed this stretch of fence that had been blown over on Bloomington Road, just a little ways northeast of our house. We also saw many trees around town with large limbs down on the ground. It was a good reminder of what summer severe weather can be like in Iowa, and we hope Mother Nature gets it out of her system this week so next week's RAGBRAI ride is full of clear blue skys.
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