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As I'm sure you can gather from the title, I live on the eastern side of Nebraska, about 30 miles west of Omaha.  There has been talk for the last few days that a massive storm is going to come rolling through, and they were right.  The storm measured up to 400 miles wide at one point, which is basically the length of the entire state.  I have seen countless storm-chasers, and there was actually some meteorologists from Europe here to study tornadoes, and the rare derecho, which is basically just a giant windstorm.  Anyway, there are some pretty awesome/terrible pictures of damage and the actual storm I thought maybe some of you would like to see.  I apologize ahead of time if the pictures are poor, I borrowed most from a friend, and the storm is still going on, so I'm sure there will be more...

 

 

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Here is the size of the hail...egg sized.  Excuse the Twitter..haha

 

 

 

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This was the radar before it happened, look at Omaha...

 

 

 

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Some grain-holders had been knocked over by the wind.

 

 

 

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This poor guy had his truck fallen on.

 

 

 

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This is the rest of my window...

 

 

 

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This is a picture of the storm above Omaha.

 

 

 

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I saved this for last, because look at it.  Not only is that impressively dark, but that picture was taken at NOON!

 

 

Let me know if you guys would like to see more. 

 

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Your pics don't work... Upload to imgur then try I guess?

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Yeah, I'm currently fixing it.

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Your pics don't work... Upload to imgur then try I guess?

 Got it.

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Wow that's crazy! Here in the Netherlands we have never had anything this caliber, I am kind of happy that I never have to go through this kind of weather.

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As I'm sure you can gather from the title, I live on the eastern side of Nebraska, about 30 miles west of Omaha.  There has been talk for the last few days that a massive storm is going to come rolling through, and they were right.  The storm measured up to 400 miles wide at one point, which is basically the length of the entire state.  I have seen countless storm-chasers, and there was actually some meteorologists from Europe here to study tornadoes, and the rare derecho, which is basically just a giant windstorm.  Anyway, there are some pretty awesome/terrible pictures of damage and the actual storm I thought maybe some of you would like to see.  I apologize ahead of time if the pictures are poor, I borrowed most from a friend, and the storm is still going on, so I'm sure there will be more...

 

 

 

Maybe do you know: why build a lot the people in the US their houses out of wood while concrete or anything like that is much more robust and will live thru storms and other extreme weather conditions? I mean ofcourse wood is cheaper but when building out of concrete you don't need to build your house all up again after every storm season, Right?

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Maybe do you know: why build a lot the people in the US their houses out of wood while concrete or anything like that is much more robust and will live thru storms and other extreme weather conditions? I mean ofcourse wood is cheaper but when building out of concrete you don't need to build your house all up again after every storm season, Right?

 

This doesn't happen often.  Probably not this bad in the last 20+ years.  

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Holy shit, is the hail always that big, because that really terrifying O.o

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Holy shit, is the hail always that big, because that really terrifying O.o

 

No, thankfully not.  This was a pretty spectacular storm.

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At first I thought you were holding balls of rice.. But holy shit! I would be packin my bags and leavin lol

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