I've been watching CNN following the rescue of the teenage girl who was stranded in a tree. One of your news choppers saw her swimming against the current trying to find a safe place. She eventually found a tree to rest in while awaiting rescue. Her rescuers were stuck for awhile. Wonder if that's the same story?

That was another rescue story that occurred earlier.
Even the rescue oats are being capsized. Sheesh!
So sad about the poor people and poor animals caught in this flooding. Animals are so vulnerable, especially our pets and domestic livestock.

Stay safe everyone. In British Columbia, there was a mudslide causing several houses to be damaged but thank goodness, no casualties.

I'm thinking about you Annie, there is a HUGE blob of rain on the radar just sort of stuck over Oklahoma City.

I watched the rescue of the girl in the tree also. Scary.

Glad the water isn't causing you too much trouble Annie - yet!

SO frightening! Stay high and dry!

Please stay safe Annie! That's a lot of rain!
kay

I was just talking about you to my son. He said Lindsay called and said they had had 10 inches.
She was home ( Edmond) with her first day of morning sickness.

We only got a half an inch. Hubby works downtown and when he pulled in his parking lot the water came up to the bottom of his truck. He just got home and he's still saying he can't believe all the water!

9 inches of rain is incredible! I can't imagine it, I'm sure it is quite scary. Hang in there Annie! We're sending our warm wishes and hopes for it to end quickly.

Stay safe!!

Stay safe everyone.
Kathi

Still raining and thundering LOUDLY and lightening strikes all around the house. This hill is like a lightening rod.

It's dark outside, like twilight. Very noisy thunder. I still haven't gone outside. Raining too much and the lightening is dangerous. I was out one time when lightening hit a tree about 15 ft away. I was watering a rose with the garden hose. My hair stuck straight out in every direction and the boom knocked me on my rump. My dog Benny a half Dalmatian - half Great Dane, was in his pen just on the pother side of the wire fen where I was standing. His pen was where my potager-rose garden is now. The lightening split the tree and it died. I dropped the garden hose, grabbed Benny and we went inside as fast as we could. I left the water running. DH did not believe that it was lightening. He did not really believe my story until the tree died. When the bark started falling off, you could see the burned area all down the tree trunk where it split. WHen he cut it down we found the core was fried.
The odd thing about the whole thing was it was not storming or raining. There were a few rain clouds, but no thunder and there was not another lightening strike. I have been told by many of the old locals that this hill has always been a place where lightening hits are abnormally high. One old feller said,
"It's that old Iron rock in the soil. A'tracks the light'nin like a light'nin' rod."
He was right. It does. We have lost 6 Elms since we moved here in 1996 to lightening strikes alone, and one old gigantic Elm had scars where it had been struck repeatedly. My neighbor told me that tree had been struck over and over and scared the bejeezes out of the former owner lady. A heavy ice storm finally brought it down,...right on top of my car. Swell.

Annie's refrain:

Here I sit on Lightening Hill
Who could blame me cry my fill;
Every strike a tree will kill;
Johnny's gone and it's stormin'. - A.D.S. ,June 2010

~Annie

It's also flooding in Tennessee. Twenty people at a campground were drowned in their sleep. They are still searching in case there were any others who haven't been reported as missing yet.

We have been under flood warnings for three days straight. The river the Rancher lives on (and just north of me), is bank full now and all over the state there are washed out roads, and bridges that are out. My DD was supposed to leave to go to the city today but there is no route she can take to get through on. More rain tonight but then it should start to clear off again, at least for a few days. We've been getting 2-3 inches every night for over a week now. There are various types of mushrooms growing on everything in my yard, even on my cellar door. Stay safe everyone.

MeMo

I will be praying it ends soon. Stay safe Annie.
tammy

Annie, I have been wondering about you! Glad you are safe from the flooding.

I believe it was in Arkansas that the campers were hit with the wall of water.

My sis in Iowa is getting lots of rain and our daughter in the KC area. Alas, were sitting in a dry spot here in southwest Missouri. The storms seem to split and go north and south of us.

I just want a good ground soaker though....not several inches.

I will be watering again today.

Our weather has been crazy this year all over the US.

glenda

Puppy and I ventured out to see how much rain we got and if there is any damage. She needed to do her business. I have a two ft. deep round black plastic lily/fish pond that was empty and dry. It is full. Don't know how much spilled over either. That is a LOT of water in 24 hours. Even on this hill, there is standing water in the lawn. That means the ground is saturated, a rare thing on this sandy hill. Our well water is a rusty brown color. It does that every time we get high amounts of rainfall. Everyone out this way on well water has the same thing happen to their water. Apparently we are all on the same aquifer. We all buy bottled water to drink. Glad I got my bath and shampoo yesterday before the water turned orange.

Many of my plants and flowers are laying over, but there are lots of new blooms too. They are loving all this rain.
And my vegetable garden? Wowzers is all I can say! The broccoli is especially amazing.

I'm going to drive over to Perkins a little later to see my son and his family. They rented a huge ranch house on a bluff overlooking the Cimarron River. I will get some flood pictures if I can. They should have a great view of the flood plain directly below their house and river 1/8 mile away from their back yard. If the water is too high, I am not driving over that bridge. Uh uh. No sir.

I am taking puppy with me.

~Annie

We watched the flooding on the news last night, saw the girl rescued from the tree, she's one very lucky girl. You keep yourself safe Annie, you hear. So many of these disasters happening now, so many have lost everything and what's really scary it happens so fast.
We were having a so so day here, not great but not bad when the heavens turned black, lightning and thunder, hail and a torrential downpour. I don't think I'm going to have much success growing melons this year, not complaining though as we're having it so much easier than a lot of folks. Stay safe everyone.

Annette