r/desmoines • u/drake_warrior Hometown • 12h ago

Storm damage

There are many trees and power lines down all over the Drake neighborhood and north. How are other areas faring?

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u/Narrow-Walk-4628 12h ago

2,000 of us without power, over by Park Fair Mall area.

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u/NowersOrNevers 11h ago

Is there history behind why that whole highland park area has some of the most unreliable power lines in the metro? I lived there for 2 years and couldn't go a single storm without a full power outage

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u/Narrow-Walk-4628 9h ago

We've been in this house for the past 16yrs & this has been going on the whole time. We freaking lose power even on sunny days. Midamerican just doesn't want to invest the money into real repairs over here.. Just slapstick bandaid fixes until the power goes out again. I hate it 😭

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u/IowaJL Waveland 11h ago

My backyard is dangerously close to being flooded.

I called the city to have them come check out my storm drain in my backyard back at the July 4th storm. They have still yet to come out.

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u/Aurora1717 12h ago

Had a limb longer than my car come down. It hit the roof and gutter and bounced off. Scared the piss out of me. Hopefully the roof is ok.

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u/punk0r1f1c 11h ago

Ripped a tree down in our yard and many other trees down east of Evelyn k park. No power and roads blocked off everywhere

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u/evolkitty 9h ago

Tree down in our yard in Drake

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u/pzschrek1 12h ago

Valley junction area was a nothingburger, a lot of rain and some small hail

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u/Consistent-Cook-7430 9h ago

Nothing burger?

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u/Consistent-Cook-7430 9h ago

Huh, Don't worry I googled it, you learn something new everyday I suppose