I got a box of daylilies in yesterday, and just managed to get them planted and a few other things done before it started to get nasty. 10 tornados hit Oklahoma. By God's grace we were missed. After all that bluff and bluster in our area we ended up with only about 3/4 inch of rain. So sorry to hear about the deaths this system caused. I heard about a man and his wife and child who managed to save themselves when he punched a hole in the wall and clung to the electrical wiring with his wife and child clinging to him. He's an electrician and knew where the wiring was. He's moving to Seattle after this experience....Maryl

Wow, I was watching that system on the radar, but I had no idea about all the tornadoes. Hope everyone's safe.

Down here I've got the sprinkler going this morning because we keep getting missed by all the rain. It's the driest Texas spring in decades.

Nate

I keep waiting for those April showers that bring May flowers. Thank goodness for the sprinklers. Tornados are scary, so unpredictible. I hope that everyone is safe. I heard the safest place to stay is in the bathroom. A small one touched down in Rockport in February during the night. The noise sounded like a freight train going over. We were lucky no one was hurt. Just roofs, fences, trees and yard furniture. We were lucky. Barbra

We escaped bad storms, were just hoping for rain. Did end up with .45" which is desperately needed here because of the exceptional drought. I will be driving through most of Arkansas tomorrow, will see what damage is on my route. Jean, and everybody else who were affected by these storms, glad to hear you are safe. I have friends in Alabama where some nasty weather occurred last night, hope to hear from them soon, to know that all is well with them. Avedon

Some trees and powerlines down here in middle TN.
Windy here and cool 45 degrees at 11 oclock.
I need to go outside and pickup small limbs on my yard,
maybe when it gets a little warmer.
PAT

Glad to hear everyone that has checked in are safe. Of course, some might be without power and not be able to get on line. Kay, check in I know you were checking the weather forcasts yesterday.

Hi Rita, Looks like most of our forum friends are safe,I do hope Kay checks in soon and shes ok and her family.I know power lines are down in a lot of places.Maybe we will hear from Kay, too, soon as power lines are back up.

Jean

We were missed by 2 of the storms..one went by a little north of us and one a little south. DH was certain we were going to br hit. The were many many trees down and a lot of power lines down, but we are fine. It was a scary storm. There were 7 deaths in our state.

As it turned out, and we did get almost 2 inches of rain and a lot of wind to go with it. A few of the iris will need staking, but no real damage for which I am very grateful.

The older I get the harder these night shifts are to make. Only 5 1/2 months to go.
kay

Kay, I"m so glad everything is alright! I popped on early this morning to see if you'd checked in. Have a great Sunday!

CTC

I'm also happy that everyone is OK, it is just so scary when there are storms like that.
cindy

They were saying last night on the early news about all the people dead in the damage in Alabama. Very tragic and frightening. I have never lived were there are usually tornadoes and I don't know how people manage.

Kay, I am glad you checked in and that everything is all right.

Thank you all for the well wishes. This working nights gets in the way of a lot of things, and that was the delay in my checking in...That and a new system and a secretary who decided to take off, so I had a brand new system I had to work with (which I actually kind of liked when I got used to it) and I had to do the secretaries job as well as mine to do. I had no spare time for quite a while there. Eighteen years is long enough to work nights.

Rita, I've always lived where there was a tornado "season". The closest I have actually been to one was one block...Plenty close enough.

Friday night there were three people killed by the storm that had passed south of to us...It did only tree and power line damage here (I wish it had blown a few more limbs out of the big oak tree in back). The town where it hit is only 50 miles from us. Another one hit in Tuscaloosa which is much closer, so it was not a good night, but we were truly blessed.

kay

I am so glad every one is ok and you,Kay has checked in too.Them tornado's are scarey,I heard on the news tonight that 44 people was killed in 6 states where this bad weather went through.I could have used some rain here,instead of all this wind.We have gotten less then a inch this month and no more then that last month, too.

Jean

It was a nasty weekend in several states, wasn't it? I was on a weekend trip with friends, drove to Chattanooga TN Friday in pouring rain all the way. Heavy rain a lot of the way, but at least no tornadoes! We got there & saw on TV about all the damage & deaths. So very tragic. I'm glad everyone here is ok.