Driving Around Springfield, IL During the Derecho June 2023 Huge Thunderstorm #2

to let people know, this storm hit just after noon Thursday June 29th 2023, very strong storm made it look dark.

Damn, so this is what the storm looked like outside, it really slammed Springfield. As soon as the sirens went off and the lights went out I rushed right into the closet so I didn't even get a chance to look outside during all that, I was afraid one of the trees in our backyard would fall onto our house. But I did watch the thunderstorm clouds come in from my window. Also I live by downtown and it was just a mess in our area as well. Thank you I've been waiting for a video on this to see what I missed.

This is such awesome ASMR. Enjoyed this a lot, just the storm and rain. For me, as a viewer, this is really soothing. I'm sure for the driver it was the opposite!

awesome video! I have been obsessed with storms and tornadoes for a long time, but the last few here in Springfield have been scary. I've never seen it get so dark so fast with this one. I was prepared for it, but it came fast and furious. it rained heavily for a while, then everything went still. the sirens went off and then it hit. 112 mph winds. no power for almost 30 hours. also, sad to see so many people driving around without their lights on

Thanks. I loved watching, no talking and no music. Just the sound of that beautiful rain. Where I'm at its nothing but triple digit weather and no rain of any kind. Been that way a while with no end in sight. yet.

Nice job on getting the lights to go out at the beginning. I'd neverbefore heard the sirens go off, except when they would do the noon tests. Well documented midwest thunder storm.

I miss my hometown so much, thanks for the ride around! I miss rainy days back home lol

I was in my bedroom upstairs when the alert came on my phone, went downstairs to the basement with my cat and rode it out. Looked like hell out there. Scarier thru the basement window than in this video. Lights flickered but stayed on. My sister lost power for 5 days, they got it back on the night of the 4th of July. What was funny is when I got in the basement I saw a car drive out of the cul-de-sac next to me and like 2 minutes later I saw it drive back into the cul-de-sac. "Yep, wrong time to leave the house!" 😂. I only lost internet for a few days. Had to read like i was a pilgrim. Just an awful day and horrible afterwards.

This is my newest "RAIN SOUNDS IN CAR, WHILE DRIVING YOU AROUND SAFELY AS YOU SLEEP" video! I found rain and storm videos a year ago.. changed my life crying 😭 I suffer from insomnia and depression and they help me fall and stay asleep.. or help relax my nerves when having anxiety, panic or manic episodes. Thank you for this video..idk if you intended for it to be an ASMR Rain Video or not, but it's one for me, lol. Put it on loop and taking a well needed nap and then tonight, I'll play it, again ❤ 💖

I was at work when the sirens went off…. Our facility has a huge generator so we had power; we were fortunate that one of the tornadoes went another direction away from our building; I didn’t know how actually it turned so dark outside…. Wow!!! Thankfully only out of power for 2 days… no deaths reported either 🙌🏾🙏🏾❤️

I love the rain ❤

Really close to my house as you’re driving. Such a day!

I was in the basement with my family and cats. Power went off while the sirens were still going and then it took till the following Thursday to get it back. I don't enjoy camping in my house during the summer, I can now state from experience. You were so close to my neighborhood I thought you were going to drive by a time or 2.

I remember this storm vividly, I actually still have severe anxiety issues from it. I was out at APL that day, we were just wrapping up with the junior volunteers when the rain hit. We moved inside, and it started to get worse. I was trying to keep one girl from having a panic attack, because she had severe storm anxiety as well. We kept telling her it would be ok, but then the three of us who had our phones on us got the take shelter immediately notification at the same time. We hadn’t realized it was the sirens going off because they were so far away the noise didn’t register. We had to rush 12 kids, all the staff, everyone visiting the shelter, and a bunch of the kids parents into the tiny little laundry room. Someone’s toddler ended up finding his way to me and clinging onto me most of the time in there. The sky outside was green, and then it got dark, just like in the video. The shelter had a backup generator so when the power went out it didn’t stay out, but we were all extremely worried. I remember some of the staff remarking that they’d “be surprised if anything took it down” because of how old the shelter building is and still standing. Thankfully, everyone was okay, but there was so much damage everywhere. A few streets down from me, someone completely lost part of their house. Another person on my street had to cut down this massive tree because it had fallen and damaged the roof, and took a good chunk of siding too. But no one was hurt. We didn’t have power for 3 days, and I know in some places it was 5. Crazy to think that just a few days from now will be the year anniversary of this storm.

Hello neighbor! You drove right past my house near the middle of the video.

I remember when this storm hit, I was sitting out on our porch hanging out with my brother in law. Started off like a normal rainstorm, and the porch was covered so we figured it'd be fine, then boom, 10 minutes go by, the sky is black and you can barely see 10 feet in front of you. I remember power was out for days, and I heard from some of my friends that some power substations were actually on fire after the storm. Can't confirm that, though. Still, crazy how fast it can go from normal day to wrath of god lmao

Very exciting to watch and listen to the rain

Thank you!

12:30!? Damn.

Well I can tell you that living in Albuquerque these days, this video is a sight for soar eyes. We haven’t had a real storm of this magnitude in what seems like forever. There were times when we actually did receive these type of storms but I can’t recall when that was. I could watch this video all day. Sure wish we could somehow trade weather systems.