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rain, WIND, tornadoes, floods....

16 years ago

We are in for it today til 1 PM or so. There is a huge front on its way with the temp dropping all day. After it passes us we will have sun sun sun...but til then we are "holdin' on to our hats!". I hope everyone else in the SE is OK today. c

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lorna-organic
16 years ago
How worrisome, Caroline! I hope you fare well through all of that WEATHER, and that it passes as quickly as predicted.
Lorna
FlowerLady6
16 years ago
Yikes Caroline ~ I hope you and yours are safe from damages storms like this can cause.

FlowerLady
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Jo, So, next to gardening, your other hobby is spending money? Heaven help your bank account if it rains for another week. : ) Lynn, I wish the rain would leave y'all alone for a while! Too much of a good thing is still too much. I hope your soil gets a chance to dry out soon. Paula, I was watching footage of the OKC flooding on The Weather Channel last night. What is is with the weather and central Oklahoma this year? It seems like the weather just won't give central OK a break this year, although at least the temperatures are a bit cooler even as the water floods people right out of their homes. We did get rain FINALLY, but not as much as they got at our Mesonet station in Burneyville. I think Burneyville was showing 1.37" at one point and we'd only had 1/10th of an inch. It was getting depressing. The heavier rain finally arrived late in the day, and now we're up to 2.3" in the last 24 hours. That's pretty much our average July monthly rainfall in one day. Since June was well below average, we'd be happy to have some more rain fall. I think we're about 4" or 5" below average still. I see more approaching rain appoaching us on the radar, so am hoping it gets here and then stalls over us and rains hard for a while. Our soil isn't saturated enough to make flooding a huge issue here, unlike much of the rest of the state. Our dewpoint was 75 yesterday which is incredibly high and causes breathing difficulties for anyone with asthma or other respiratory issues. So, I knew it would rain hard at some point, since the higher your dewpoint, the more rain that generally will fall. Carol, I'm glad the rain finally found y'all. Maybe your county will look better on the Soil Moisture maps now, cause it was looking pretty sad before. Littledog, My own rain gauge almost never agrees with the Mesonet station either, so I use my measurements...or at least I keep a running total in my head...something like "we have received 3" less than the mesonet station so far this year". In 2007, we had a June similar to yours. I don't remember the exact amount, but it was a lot (I think about a foot in June after 6 or 8" in May) and we had flooding issues both on the Texas side and OK side of the river. In fact, that was one of the very few times that the water at Lake Texoma has over-topped the dam, which resulted in a lot of downstream flooding. I think either Wed. or Thurs. was the 3-year anniversary of the day the water first overtopped the dam. Lake Texoma should start rising soon as the heavy rains that tell in SW OK make their way down the river, but it is a very long way from being fall enough to overtop the dam. I know the Red River was flooding in part of the Jefferson County (the county just west of our county) area last night. Swokiedokie, We have the same. I'm hoping for harder rain so the ponds can refill. I know some folks have had too much rain in the last couple of weeks, or even in the last month or two, but this is the mildest July weather we've had in a while. I love the temps, but bet they won't last much longer. It is, after all, July. Dawn
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Steveningen
16 years ago
Please, all of you from the south, check in with us as soon as you can. What a terrible tragedy.

Steven
todancewithwolves
16 years ago
Oh dear! I'm praying the forcasters are wrong and the weather front moves in as a light rain followed by a bright rainbow.

Edna
aftermidnight Zone7b B.C. Canada
16 years ago
We've just heard about the tornadoes in the south, so tragic.
Please stay safe everyone and do check in when you can, let us know you are all right. My heart goes out to all that have lost friends and loved ones.

Annette
DYH
16 years ago
Tennessee, Arkansas were hit hard yesterday. I've been outside all morning doing the winter clean up in the garden for 3 hours in the sunshine with 76 degree temps. It's just now starting to get cloudy. We're expecting severe weather late this afternoon and tonight.

Stay safe.
Cameron
girlgroupgirl
16 years ago
We seem to be all clear here now in Atlanta. Nothing more than rain - no wind.
It was a terrible night some places. I'm very worried about my friends in and around Memphis.

Hope you are fine over there trailrunner!

GGG
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16 years ago
Thank you everyone for your thoughts. It passed on through. Limbs down in the yard from the huge old Water Oak and we had lots of thunder and lightening and rain but that is all. It is still cloudy , we are now in for a low of 36 tonight and lots of sun til next Tuesday. I was really saddened by the loss of life and property in other parts of the South. We have had such weather in 2007 and I was hoping 2008 was going to be better.I hope everyone is OK. As Steven said please check in.

Cameron please stay safe. Thank you GGG and I hope that you don't get anything big. My son and his girl are on their way from Mobile and Mardi Gras back to Atlanta this afternoon. Don't want any weather on them. c
FlowerLady6
16 years ago
Oh my gosh, my heart goes out to all those who lost their loved ones and their homes and businesses. I just looked at pictures and it's heartbreaking.

FlowerLady
mora
16 years ago
The heartbreaking news has been all over the media here too.
Stay safe all, our hearts are with you, Martha
pansyface2006
16 years ago
We were spared this time, went to the North of us and we just got a little rain and wind.
Barb
Vikki1747
16 years ago
Whew, glad to hear everyone is okay. We had 80 degrees today and are supposed to get storms tonight. Hope its nowhere close to what the middle south had. Poor folks, we should all remember them in our prayers.

GGG...how is the water table looking in Atlanta now that you have finally gotten some rain?

Vikki
keesha2006
16 years ago
Everyone be safe..the news reports and pictures are frightening..and reminders of how we never quite are prepared for something like this.

My daughters home was hit by lightening in the storms on Tues nite, nothing structural but much electical. The furnace repairman just left there tonight with a 900 repair bill. The appliance repairman comes Sat and that bill will be pricey to. She said tonight, thank goodness for insurance. It reminds you just why you pay that bill..Everyone be safe.
PattiOH
16 years ago
So many lives torn apart in minutes. So sad.

Grateful tonight for my puny problems.

Patti
Eduarda
16 years ago
This has been on the news here as well. The images of the devastation are appalling. Glad to hear our cottagers at least are doing ok so far. Please keep safe!

Eduarda
natvtxn
16 years ago
It is beyond words. What can I say that hasn't been expressed.
I don't want anyone to go through something like this, but especially people I have come to know and love.
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Original Author
16 years ago
Front page of our local paper was the daughter of a couple up the street. She was not in the dorm since she had gone to her church for a meeting. Was very lucky. She lost everything in her room and her car...but of course that can be replaced. The campus is closed for 2 weeks and she is on her way home today. It is heartbreaking how many people were caught in the early AM by the storms. c
DYH
16 years ago
Watching the news reports has been heartbreaking. The storm went around us, we barely got rain and just a bit of wind.

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