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Severe thunderstorms, hail forecast..do you prepare?
Comments (3)We often get hail earlier in the season, when the reasonable thing to do with the tomatoes and pepper transplants is to simply bring them back inside. One year my DH lost all his fancy, newly purchased basil varieties because I wasn't willing to go out in half inch hail to rescue them. I'd bring in anything the is ready to harvest, let anything else take their chances....See MoreSunday's Severe Weather Forecast
Comments (6)Reed, I feel sorry for Tulsa. This morning Dr. Forbes distinctly mentioned Tulsa having a '7' TorCon more than he mentioned OKC, though at one point he said the storms would form near OKC and move towards Tulsa. The issue will be how violent they are when they form...even if they form in the OKC area, they could be violent from the start or they might gain in strength as discrete cells merge together into a squall line. I think today I wouldn't want to be in Iowa either. We have crazy wind here today. I guess it must be from outflow boundaries from yesterday's storms. I have gigantic trees north of my garden and they were dancing back and forth in the wind so much that it was scaring me and I came inside to get away from them. If a tree is going to fall on my garden, it needs to do it while I am not in the garden. Wulfleton, I am sorry you're feeling homesick. Count your blessings every single day because you do have a lot to be grateful for. Oklahoma has beautiful weather in April and October. The rest of the year we just cringe, hold our breath and hope for the best. The good thing is that once you have learned how to successfully garden in OK, you can garden anywhere. Today's weather likely won't turn out to be nothing, but maybe we'll luck out and the worst storms will hit sparsely populated areas so at least fewer people are harmed that way. Dawn...See MoreHoping the weather forecast is wrong.
Comments (33)Sounds like a lot of us are getting a late cold spell. It was supposed to have gotten down to about 28 last night. I'm not sure since I don't have a thermometer in that part of the garden. The water on the tarps was all frozen and many of the buds were previously frozen from the night before. Good luck to all of you. I hope things warm up and that your roses grow well/come back well. Roses are pretty tough, but not so much the new growth, and it is such a disappointment....See MoreToday's Severe Weather Forecast, Friday, 5-22-20
Comments (6)Jennifer, I'm glad you got rain. I know that you needed it. I was looking at our tomato plants in pots around dinner time last night and thinking they needed water. Since heavy rainfall was in our forecast, I didn't water them but promised the plants I'd water them Saturday morning if the forecasted Friday rain missed us. It didn't miss us, so I won't have to water today....or for another week....or month. Larry, Water coming into the house? Wow. That's not good. I hope you find the source and can stop it from coming in. In terms of weather, we had it all last night and to a lesser extent it continues this morning, just without the wicked wind. There's been a ton of rainfall, thunder and lightning, wind gusting into the 60s, etc. The storms have been widespread but patchy, so some folks have more rain, and more damage, than others. We have roofs torn off buildings, trees down, power poles snapped in half, power lines down, power outages of course, and water, water, water everywhere. The hardest-hit areas for power outages seem to be to our south. Our power went out momentarily but came right back on and, of course, as with every single time it rains hard here, we lost the DirecTV and the internet for a while. I don't know what it looks like outside at our place because it still is dark, but we are surrounded by an ocean of water. I'm betting at least 3" of rain fell just based on the huge amount of water surrounding the house. We feel fortunate as there were tornadoes to our southwest, in particular just across the river a bit and down in Montague County, TX, where my dad grew up, which sits catty-corner to Love County's southwestern corner. The Bowie, TX, area got hit by one or more tornadoes, and the Burkburnett, TX, area had some of the largest hail I've ever seen--I don't even know how to describe it, perhaps cantaloupe-sized. The stones certainly were significantly larger than grapefruit sized. These hailstones in some instances punched through the homes' exterior roof and then came through the ceiling and into the actual rooms of the homes. Can you imagine? My parents had that exact same sort of damage to their roof and home when I was either 20 or 21 and living in my first apartment. I was there in Fort Worth at the time, but not at their house, and I remember taking my sister home to Arlington with me to spend the night because my parents' house was such a mess. They got essentially a whole new interior (drywall, insulation, carpet, drapes, bedspreads, etc.) and exterior (windows, siding, roof, etc.) after their baseball to softball sized hail pushed through their roof, walls and ceiling and some flooring that year after the interior suffered damage from water and debris. The issue was that everyone else was in the same boat, so it was hard to find roofers and construction workers and many people's homes went a year or more before they were fully repaired and restored to normal. Last night, down in Texas they had ridiculously slow-moving storms and heavy flash flooding to our south, and then more damage on the TX side of the river to our southeast that could be tornado damage or straight-line wind damage. Some people in our county think their storm damage came from a tornado, and maybe it did, but I never saw anything on our radar that looked like a tornado, at least not after it crossed the river into OK. We had a lot of storm spotters out and some of them reporting some lowering of the clouds and also rotation in various places, but I don't know if any of them reporting a tornado on the ground. If they did, I missed it. Last night wasn't even supposed to be our best chance for heavy rainfall, but we got it anyway. Our best chance for heavy rainfall, if the forecast doesn't change, is Sunday. I don't know where we'll put more water. Dawn...See MoreKathsgrdn
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