Interesting facts about derechos

[Frustratedlady]

1. They refer to them as straight-line winds around here.

The strangest things you can imagine. For instance, there can be a path across a cornfield where it appears a river flowed through the corn and flattened it to the ground while the corn on either side was untouched.

I've seen tops of trees snapped like matchsticks as far as the eye could see, but trees on either side were untouched.

Those are eerie.