Interstate 94 was shut down this afternoon in Saint Cloud, MN due to a wild fire that quickly got out of control before the Saint Cloud and Saint Augusta fire departments arrived on the scene.
Footage was shot from the county road 136 bridge or Oak Grove Road SW, over Interstate 94 as the high winds and dry grass made the fire expand quickly along the east bound lanes of Interstate 94 towards the county road 75 exit ramp.
Clip 01 Close up shot of the fire burning the grass along Interstate 94.
Clip 02 Fire water tanker truck driving along the side of I94 in the thick smoke.
Clip 03 Resident spraying water on his yard to prevent the fire from coming towards his home.
Clip 04 Wide shot of the person spraying water on the yard as the fire line is moving towards them.
Clip 05 Interstate 94 traffic backed up in the heavy thick smoke and high winds.
Clip 06 Fire crews on the scene in the yard to fight the fire.
Clip 07 Close up shots of the fire burning
Clip 08 Fire crews showing up on the scene.
Clip 09 Wide shot of the fire burning and jumps over to crews fighting the fire on a medium shot.
Clip 10 Fire Crews showing up on the scene
Clip 11 Fire Crews fighting the fire.
Clip 12 Fire Crews fighting the fire.
Clip 13 Wider shot of fire fighter in the fire.
Clip 14 More crews fighting the fire.
Clip 15 Fire fighter hosing down the area
Clip 16 Sheriffs deputy and Saint Cloud Fire Department truck blocking the traffic on Interstate 94 and shutting it down to all traffic going east bound.
Clip 17 Fire crews working to put the fire out.
Clip 18 State Patrol squad car showing up on the scene.
Clip 19 Saint Cloud Fire Crews and State Patrol blocking Interstate 94.
Clip 20 Pull back shot of the traffic backed up towards Highway 15 on the east bound lanes of Interstate 94 the shows the traffic stuck on the interstate and ends at the shot of the Engine 2 Fire Truck and State Trooper.
Clip 21 Tight shot of Saint Cloud fire truck door.
Clip 22 State trooper and Saint Cloud Police on the scene.
Clip 23 Tight shot of the front of the State Trooper squad car.
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While Fargo, ND prepares for the Red River of the North crest, the river’s that feed into the Red River are now cresting just to the south of the Fargo / Moorhead, metro area.
Clip 1 Wide shot of large area flooded out.
Clip 2 Road Closed sign with flooding behind the signs.
Clip 3 Stop sign with water half way up the sign pole.
Clip 4 Road signs in the water.
Clip 5 Shot of all the flooding and signs in the water.
Clip 6 What was a farm field is now a lake with Swans swimming in the high water.
Clip 7 Rushing water cutting through a farm field. Pull back shot.
Clip 8 High water pull back shot from the bridge to where the road should be.
Clip 9 Snow pack still on the ground in areas.
Clip 10 Running water in the ditches that are flowing to the Buffalo river.
Clip 11 Buffalo River with major flooding just south of the town of Sabin, MN.
Clip 12 Flooding around a farm. The farm has a dike around it to protect it from the high waters.
Clip 13 Road signs in the flooding.
Clip 14 Wide shot of the flooding and road signs with the farm on the left.
Clip 15 Snow pack filling up the ditches along the road near the Buffalo River.
Clip 16 More snow pack covering areas on the north sides of the farm fields. Pan shot from Right to Left.
Clip 17 Medium shot of the Buffalo River washing out a roadway for about a quarter mile.
Clip 18 House surrounded by water but not flooded out.
Clip 19 Buffalo River sign at the bridge just south of the town of Sabin, MN with the massive flooding in the background.
Clip 20 Water flowing under the bridge and it is only a couple feet from touching the beams on the bridge deck. Pan shot to the right to show the large area of flooding.
Clip 21 A rail road bridge with water almost up to the deck.
Clip 22 Snow pack and flooding.
Clip 23 Pan shot showing the snow pack along the side of the Buffalo River and the camera pans right to show how far the river has gone over its banks for almost a quarter mile to the west side of the river.
Clip 24 In the setting sun light, the flooding covers most of the ground to where the house in about a quarter mile away from the camera.
Major flooding continues along the Mississippi River and is causing backups in creeks and smaller rivers that feed into the Mississippi. Flooding is resulting from these backups several miles from the river.
Video shot in and around the small town of Dutchtown, Missouri just outside of Cape Girardeau. Includes shots of two vehicles precariously navigating a flooded rural road that feeds into Dutchtown and being very fortunate to make it to the other side. Other shots include sandbags barricading homes in town as well as shots of flooded fields.
TRT – 4:58
Scene 1: Establishing shot looking down Missouri Highway 74 with flooded field on the left and city limit sign on right.
Scene 2: Shot of MO-74 with flooding right next to road.
Scene 3: Vehicle entering flooded road along Missouri Highway A juts west of Dutchtown.
Scene 4: Wide shot of vehicle in waters along flooded road.
Scene 5: Tight shot of vehicle in flood waters.
Scene 6: Wide shot of oncoming truck and other vehicle in the middle of the flood waters.
Scene 7: Long zoomed shot of oncoming truck in the flood waters, driving til exiting waters passed camera.
Scene 8: Zoomed shot of first vehicle exiting flood waters on other side of flood.
Scene 9: Shot looking over flooded road at red pickup truck with people.
Scene 10: Shot of empty flooded road.
Scene 11: Signs warning of water on road with flood over road in background.
Scene 12: “Water Over Road” sign with flooded road in background.
Scene 13: Shot of water over road.
Scene 14: Shot of home with sandbags barricading the residence in Dutchtown.
Scene 15-16: Wide shot of house with sandbags in front in Dutchtown.
Scene 17: Shot of sandbag wall near Dutchtown residence.
Scene 18: Close up of sandbag pile.
Scene 19-20: Shot of sandbags along MO-74 in Dutchtown.
Scene 21: Looking over sandbag barricade of farmstead surrounded by flood waters.
Scene 22: Zoomed shot of farmstead surrounded by flood waters.
Scene 23: Flooded field near Dutchtown.
Scene 24: Zoomed shot of sign in flood waters.
Scene 25: Looking down a flooded road to an old farmstead.
Scene 26: Zoomed shot of farmstead surrounded by flooding.
Scene 27: Flooded field with farmstead in background.
Scene 28-29: Flooded fields with many acres under water.
Major flooding continues along the Mississippi River as the high water levels have moved south creating issues across the southern parts of Illinois and Missouri. Water levels are near major flood stage in Cape Girardeau with a crest of 42′ expected by Friday morning before slowly receding through next week.
TRT – 4:17
Scene 1: Establishing shot of the bridge over the flooded Mississippi leading into Cape Girardeau from Illinois.
Scene 2: Tight shot of flow on Mississippi at base of bridge.
Scene 3: Shot of road closed barricade with man and dog in background.
Scene 4-9: Various shots of barricades blocking various streets along the river in Cape Girardeau.
Scene 10-11: Shot of half submerged stop sign.
Scene 12-13: Shot of flooded railroad crossing.
Scene 14: Shot of a submerged vehicle.
Scene 15-17: Shots of various road signs in flood waters.
Scene 18: Shot of flooded shelter.
Scene 19-20: Shots of truck sign and flooded bridge.
Scene 21: Shot of fire hydrant with flooded out building in background.
Scene 22: Tight shot of fire hydrant.
Scene 23: Tight shot of flooded building.
Scene 24: Shot of mailbox in flood water.
Scene 25: Shot of two barricades blocking flooded road.
Scene 26-28: Shots of fire hydrant along flooded road.
Scene 29: Flood waters high on a fence.
Scene 30: Woman and her dog walk passed camera with flood water/barricade in background.
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Everyone in the greater Twin Cities metro area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul metro area of Minnesota, and the rest of Minnesota is hoping that this is the final winter storm and final round of snow for the season.
A powerful winter storm dumped another half of a foot of heavy wet snow in the south metro area of Dakota County.
Even the crews at the Minneapolis International Airport had to go back to winter mode to de-ice airplanes this evening.
And in the later part of the video, April Snow Showers Bring Minnesota Snow Plowers… and cars in the ditches.
Clip 1 Spoon Bridge at the sculpture garden in downtown Minneapolis. They snow was so heavy that you could not see the skyline in the background.
Clip 2-4 Footage of Robins in the snow looking for food.
Clip 05 A treeline and the heavy snow falling.
Clip 06 Aircraft taxiing in the snow at the Minneapolis & Saint Paul International Airport.
Clip 07 Aircraft landing
Clip 08 – 13 Various shot of aircraft de-icing.
Clip 14 Snow falling with a light highlighting the snow and aircraft in the background.
Clip 15 One of the worlds largest aircraft, an Antonov Cargo plane landing in the heavy snow.
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The following clips were shot after dark in Dakota County showing the poor driving conditions in the heavy snow.
Clip 16 Flag blowing in the wind and snow
Clip 17 – 18 SUV sliding in the snow
Clip 19 Car spinning the front tires in the snow trying to go forward.
Clip 20 – 21 Heavy snow covering tree branches
Clip 22 Mini van spinning its tires trying to drive up a hill
Clip 23 – 24 Burnsville, MN city banner signs. Once side is coated the while the other side you can kind of make out what it says.
Clip 25 POV dash camera showing a sign warning of a crash ahead
Clip 26 Drive by shot of a car in the ditch on Interstate 35E
Clip 27 Drive by shot of a car in the center cables on Interstate 35E with police on the scene.
Clip 28 Minivan in the ditch on Interstate 35E
Clip 29 State Patrol on the scene of a crash on Interstate 35E with the car in the center cables
Clip 30 SUV crashed on the exit ramp of 35E and county road 50
Clip 31 – 37 Various snow plow footage.
Record flooding is occurring along the Kaskaskia River at Vandalia in south-central Illinois. As of 4pm CDT Friday, the river was at 27.89′, the second highest recorded depth (only behind the May-2002 record of 28.27′). It is forecast to crest around 29′ Friday evening which would be a new all-time record for this location. The river is expected to slowly fall to below flood stage by Wednesday.
As a result of the flooding, levees near the town were being overtaken with water and several low-lying areas in town were inundated with as much as 6′ of water due to many creeks feeding the Kaskaskia getting backed up due to the high levels of water.
Engineers were discussing whether to release one of the levees up stream to try and lower the river levels. A decision had not been reached as of this upload (5:15pm CDT).
TRT – 6:10
Part 1 (0:00-0:34) Establishing Shots
Scene 1 – Shot of Kaskaskia River sign with flooded river in background.
Scene 2 – Shot of the Left Bank Levee spilling over to a nearby field with the US-51 sign in the foreground.
Scene 3 – Shot of the gage house at the river.
Part 2 (0:34-3:14) Town of Vandalia
Scene 4 – Wide shot of flooding across Jefferson & 4th.
Scene 5 – Shot of barricade with flooded house in the background.
Scene 6 – Close up of residents on the porch of a flooded home.
Scene 7 – Woman wading through flood waters in front of her home.
Scene 8 – Another house in flood waters.
Scene 9 – Front of house in flood waters.
Scene 10, 11 – Shot of a local gym with water part way up the front doors.
Scene 12 – Front of building with have submerged pop machine.
Scene 13 – Shot of building in flood waters with submerged vehicle next to it.
Scene 14 – Close up of vehicle with water up to windows.
Scene 15 – Shot of a pickup, another car, and a trailer partially submerged in water.
Scene 16 – Utility truck backing away from closed road and flood.
Scene 17 – Pickup truck turning away from closed flooded road.
Scene 18 – Three residents stand at a barricade along Jefferson St.
Scene 19 – Shot of a barricade with flood waters up to a stop sign.
Scene 20 – Shot of the 4th & Jefferson sign in flood waters.
Scene 21 – Tight shot of stop sign.
Part 3 (3:14-5:04) Overtaken Levees
Scene 22 – Wide shot of road with Vandalia Levee in background at a railroad crossing.
Scene 23 – Shot of R/R crossing sign with overtaken Vandalia Levee in background.
Scene 24 – Tight shot of water flowing rapidly over Left Bank Levee.
Scene 25 – Wide shot of water spilling over Left Bank Levee.
Scene 26 – Very wide shot of flooded field with overflowing Left Bank Levee in the background.
Scene 27, 28 – More tight shots of water flowing over the levees.
Scene 29 – Wide shot of Left Bank Levee overflow.
Scene 30 – Shot looking down on Left Bank Levee with water flow over the top.
Scene 31 – Tight shot of levee overflow.
Scene 32, 33, 34 – An inundated county road near the Left Bank Levee.
Part 4 (5:04-6:10) USGS Surveyer
Scene 35 – Shot of USGS van at the river.
Scene 36 – Tight shot of USGS van.
Scene 37 – Extended sequence of surveyor lowering flow instrumentation into the river from the bridge.
Scene 38 – Tight shot of river flow instrumentation in the river.
Scene 39 – Tight shot of surveyor with laptop releasing the rope along the bridge.
Scene 40 – Wide shot of surveyor on the bridge with instrumentation in the water.
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Another powerful winter storm system is hitting central Minnesota hard again with more heavy snow and sleet. A foot of snow is has fallen over the Stearns County, MN area around the city of Saint Cloud, Minnesota.
B-Roll footage shows the horrible driving conditions due to the heavy snow. The snow fall rates were over an inch and a half an hour at times.
Any vehicle that crashed on Interstate 94 and was not blocking the roadway was actually left on the side of the road due to low visibility from the heavy snow making it too dangerous for tow truck crews to remove the vehicles until after the storm.
Total Run Time 4:07
Clip 01 – 03 Plow trucks plowing the on ramp on Interstate 94 at the Tornado Sirens fills audio track. This is winter awareness week and today was the day to test the sirens for tornado warnings.
Clip 04 Passing shot of a snow plow from the side camera.
Clip 05 – 07 POV shots of snow plows
Clip 08 Drive by shot of two vehicles crashed on the side of Interstate 94
Clip 09 What is left of an SUV that was left on the side of the interstate after it crashed.
Clip 10 Vehicle that slide off the interstate and stuck in the ditch.
Clip 11 POV driving in very heavy snow
Clip 12 Drive by shot of a tow truck trying to pull out a minivan stuck in the ditch on highway 75
Clip 13 Drive by shot of a car in the center ditch
Clip 14 SUV stuck in the center ditch of interstate 94
Clip 15 A Pickup truck is stuck in the deep snow in the center of Interstate 94 fails to get out and just spins all of the tires.
Clip 16 POV Driving in heavy snow
Clip 17 – 18 B-Roll of people making a large snowman in Saint Cloud
Clip 19 Heavy snow falls on the steps outside of church at sunset in downtown Saint Cloud
Clip 20 Stop sign covered with 6 inches of heavy snow
Clip 21 Flags blowing in the high winds and heavy snow
Clip 22 The stop lights on 2nd Street and the sign for 2nd Street are covered with heavy snow.
Clip 23 And, a shot from the back yard, Very heavy wet snow covers a pine tree making it look like it is the middle of December, not the third week of the Major League Baseball season…
Brand new footage in from Juston Drake and Simon Brewer of the tornado warned storms, supercells, wall clouds, hail, and downed power lines from storms near Frederick, Lawton, and Davidson.
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An outbreak of severe weather pounded Oklahoma on Wednesday with tornadoes, very large hail, winds, and rain. Many supercells forming across southwest Oklahoma trained over the same areas, with storms moving up along I-44 from Lawton and multiple rounds of storms hammering the region.
Video package shot in and around Lawton and details how close it came to being hit by a tornado as well as missile-like hail and some tree damage.
TRT – 3:05
Scene 1 – Ragged clouds with Lawton water town.
Scene 2 – Shot of a very ominous clouds over Lawton.
Scene 3 – Rotating wall cloud
Scene 4 – Gathering wall cloud
Scene 5 – Billboard advertisement thing flying overhead in strong winds.
Scene 6 – Pan from 2.25″ hail up to wall cloud over town.
Scene 7 – Gathering wall cloud over town.
Scene 8 – Hail up to tennis-ball sized slamming ground like a missile.
Scene 9-12 – More large hail slamming the ground in high winds.
Scene 13, 14 – More ragged clouds/wall cloud over town.
Scene 15 – Wide of storm approaching Lawton.
Scene 16-18 – Tree down over road on west side of Lawton with emergency crews blocking the road.
The first day of a series of severe weather days kicked off across Texas with a couple of severe storms northwest of DFW that produced large, spiked hailstones across northern Texas. Several more days of severe weather are expected with a major outbreak possible midweek. Meanwhile, this was just the kick off.
TRT – 2:33
Scene 1: Spiked 1.25″ hailstone being rotated in hand.
Scene 2: Two spiked stones and two normal stones compared to 50-cent piece.
Scene 3: Two vehicles pulled off the road during storm with NATS.
Scene 4: Vehicle drives by during storm with hail and leaf debris littering roadway.
Scene 5: Parked car with hail falling on grass.
Scene 6: Hail falling and bouncing on grass.
Scene 7: POV with oncoming traffic.
Scene 8: Traffic in hail.
Scene 9: Close-up of traffic in hail.
Scene 10: Two trucks drive in falling hail.
Scene 11: Close-up of hail on roadway.
Scene 12: Hail falling in puddle.
Scene 13, 14: Hail falling and bouncing in grass.
Scene 15: Close up of truck with hail falling.
Scene 16: Hail in grass.
Scene 17: Tight shot of hail in grass.
Scene 18: Chaser holding 4 hailstones in hand.
It may be Spring but the west central and northwestern Minnesota are getting slammed with another brutal winter storm system..
A mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain fell over the area around Barnesville, MN which is in Clay County and just 22 miles southwest of the Fargo & Moorhead metro area.
This area was the focus due to a major wreck along Interstate 94 that shut the interstate down for most of the afternoon and into the evening. Several tractor trailers hauling livestock crashed, along with several other vehicles just south of the Barnesville, MN area on Interstate 94.
The highest wind gusts that I recorded in the truck was 52.5 mph.
Total Run Time: 8:51
Clip 01 Barnesville City City covered in snow with heavy snow falling and tree’s in the background for depth of field and motion.
Clip 02 Clay County Sheriff vehicle blocks the entrance to Interstate 94 due to the wreck just south of the entrance. High winds blow the camera around while trying to hold the shot.
Clip 03 POV Drive by of a large delivery van in the ditch.
Clip 04 POV Drive by shot of Semi Truck in the ditch
Clip 05 First drive by shot of the major crash scene on Interstate 94
Clip 06 Second drive by shot of the same scene of the major crash scene on Interstate 94. This scene is a faster pace.
Clip 07 Wide shot from the farm road of the cattle trucks crashed in the east bound ditch of Interstate 94.
Clip 08 Medium shot of one of the trucks the crashed.
Clip 09 Tight shot of the pigs outside of one of the crashed trucks.
Clip 10 Tight shot on the front end of one of the crashed trucks.
Clip 11 Workers cleaning up the scene and trying to get the pigs out of the first truck.
Clip 12 First truck with a wider shot with police and tow truck crews
Clip 13 Blowing snow over a field with a house in the background near the crash site.
Clip 14 Static shot of a stop sign in the foreground and rail road sign and trees in the back ground with blowing snow.
Clip 15 Tight shot of the stop sign with snow covering it.
Clip 16 Blowing snow static shot with trees in the background
Clip 17 Blowing snow static shot with a tree in the background
Clip 18 Semi truck driving towards the camera in the high winds and heavy snow.
Clip 19 Pickup truck driving towards the camera in the high winds and snow
Clip 20 Tight shot of high winds blowing cross the field.
Clip 21 Truck drives towards the camera in near white out conditions.
Clip 22 High winds blowing snow across the shot, trees in background.
Clip 23 High winds blowing snow across the highway to show the limited visibility.
Clip 24 High winds blowing snow across the highway.
Clip 25 Tighter shot of the high winds blowing snow across the highway.
Clip 26 Highway 108 and county road 30 signs in the high winds
Clip 27 Snow plow parked in the background with the Fergus Falls and Moorhead sign in the foreground with blowing snow.
Clip 28 Looking down shot of a snow plow on Interstate 94 driving towards the camera.
Clip 29 POV shot of a snow plow in front of the camera.
Clip 30 Passing shot of a snow plow from the dash camera.
Clip 31 Passing shot of a snow plow from the side camera.
Clip 32 Snow plow passing in oncoming traffic.
Clip 33 POV driving in heavy snow
Clip 34 POV driving in heavy snow
Clip 35 POV driving in heavy snow with a SUV with its hazard lights on.
Clip 36 POV driving in heavy snow and high winds
Clip 37 POV driving in heavy snow and high winds
Clip 38 POV driving in heavy snow and high winds from the grill camera.
Clip 39 POV driving in heavy snow and high winds from the grill camera.
Clip 40 POV driving in heavy snow and high winds following a Dodge Durango SUV
Clip 41 POV driving in heavy snow and high winds
Clip 42 Car in the ditch after dark (shot on the way home northwest of Fergus Falls.
A major winter storm hit the central Minnesota city of Saint Cloud hard before noon today. The storm dumped 9 inches of very heavy wet snow on the area and made driving extremely dangerous.
Total Run Time 6:17
Clip 1 Flags blowing in the heavy snow
Clip 2 So you think it is spring? Pull back shot of heavy snow covering branches with a creek flowing.
Clip 3 Tight shot of heavy snow on a pine tree that looks more like December then Mid April.
Clip 04 Ruler (in my back yard) showing Nine Inches of snow fell in Saint Cloud, MN.
Clip 05 The first sign of spring is the Robins and other song birds migrating into town. Today they are singing the blues.
Clip 06 Robins finding berries to eat that are on top of the heavy wet snow
Clip 07 POV shot of a snow plow almost taking off the front of my truck.
Clip 08 POV shot of a snow plow in Saint Cloud.
Clip 09 Tight shot of the wing plow
Clip 10 Snow plow gets stuck and spins the back tires.
Clip 11 POV driving in white out conditions.
Clip 12 Drive by of car in the ditch
Clip 13 Driving in heavy snow on Interstate 94.
Clip 14 Driving in heavy snow and a plow drives through the shot on Interstate 94.
Clip 15 POV Driving in heavy snow
Clip 16 POV Following snow plows on highway 23
Clip 17 POV White out conditions again on highway 23
Clip 18 Drive by shot of a car in the ditch
Clip 19 Drive by shot of a car in the ditch
Clip 20 Drive by shot of a sports car in the ditch.
Clip 21 Static shot of a car in the ditch
Clip 22 SUV spinning its wheels on ice
Clip 23 Static shot of a car in the ditch
Clip 24 Blowing snow
Clip 25 Static shot of a car in the ditch
Clip 26 Drive by shot of jackknifed semi and a massive backup on Highway 10
Clip 27 Static shot of the jack knifed semi
Clip 28 5th Wheel trailer got hit in an accident.
Clip 29 Police and Wrecker crews pull a tractor trailer out
Clip 30 Police and Wrecker crews pull another tractor trailer out of being stuck
Clip 31 Tracking shot of a snow plow
Clip 32 Snow plow driving towards the camera
Clip 33 Plowing snow with an old cabin in the background
Clip 34 Snow plows driving towards the camera with a side pov shot.
Clip 35 – 39 Crews clean up a wreck on Highway 23 where a car slid under a semi truck. Various shots of EMS, snow plows and police on scene.
Clip 40 Plowing snow down a country road on the west side of town.
Heavy snow and freezing fog started up during the overnight hours. B-Roll footage from around Duluth, MN from Canal Park down by the lake shore to the west side of town up on top of the city of the heavy snow.
Various footage shot from 11:00pm to 2:00am as the bands of heavy snow moved into the area.
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