It's coming! 70 mph winds and 2 inches of rain

glenda_al

13 years ago

Got my battery powered fans, flashlight by bedside, and battery travel clock by beside.

Warm 66 at 10 pm and very windy!

Tornado season is here.

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alisande
13 years ago
Seventy mph winds?? Oh, no......be careful y'all!
minnie_tx
13 years ago
We had a watch this afternoon I'll take blizzards over tornado warnings anyday!!
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I'm glad you checked in, I was wondering how everyone in California was faring. The winds were supposed to hit Colorado too, 137 MPH I think, so I was wondering about Lee too. Apparently it's also supposed to hit Oklahoma, Misouri, maybe as far as Indiana. I was starting to think that maybe you were all going to be blown all the way to Michigan! Gina, I know what you mean about not sleeping when the wind reaches a certain point, about 60 MPH, I always wonder if the pine trees just a couple of feet from my garage are going to come down and I hear the garbage cans getting blown down the street. Since we have no streetlights (they got turned off last year when the city ran out of operating cash for them) I can't see a darned thing, I always wonder if they are MY garbage cans. Not that I could do anything if they were, I guess... I'm glad everyone is safe, anyway, I've seen posts from Lars, Jessica, Eileen, Clare. Anyone hear from Ann (spacific) or Ellen (compumom)? Diana? Lee in Colorado and KatieC in Idaho got those winds too, and I sure hope David escapes, he's had a couple of very damaging storms, he deserves a pass on this one. Boy, with these winds, that October snowstorm on the East Coast, the 50 car pileup by Nashville from the freezing fog (what the heck IS that anyway?), it's been wild. Stay safe everyone. Annie
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marie_ndcal
13 years ago
Tonight is 11 below, windy and very dangerous to be out. Yep, would rather have this instead of tornados.. May get up to 20 above sometime next week then will drop again. Stay safe and be careful.
rosebudms
13 years ago
I am about an hour west of Glenda. The weather channel sent Jim Cantore to Memphis early in the day to see all the bad weather from there. Our local weather people got all excited too. We were in a "watch" area most of the afternoon, and after 9:30 the tornado sirens did go off. I went into my closet with my radio, flashlight, my cell phone and a house phone and my purse. Cat came in and waited with me. Fortunately, we did not have to wait long for the all clear. Lots of rain and wind but no tornado.

Hope all the people east of us are o.k. and did not have a lot of damage.
glenda_al
Original Author
13 years ago
It's here, wind woke me up, and lights flickered.

Wind is really blowing, have news on and listening to it.

Flashlight in hand.
glenda_al
Original Author
13 years ago
Calming down now, headed back to bed.

News said: things are settling down
roseluver
13 years ago
Glenda, we experienced your weather a few hours after you did.
We had lots of thunder with ours and got the much needed rain.
That wind was really whistling making it kinda scary.
country_sunshine
13 years ago
Heard the rain, then the roar, headed for the basement, lost power, and just huddled down there for awhile... After it got quiet again, came back upstairs again to see emergency vehicles all over the place up and down the road. One came into our drive to see that I was okay.. bless his heart, he was the local VFD fire chief that Bob trained some years back.... This morning I can hear chain saws and see over on the north east ridge where trees are twisted together like spaghetti strands but standing. As far as I can tell, all is well here at our place.... a few branches down here and there is all. We were extremely blessed...

The power company is phenominal... we were only out of power for about 6 hours before they got it back up and running... pretty darned good for a rural area like this.

Carolyn
gadgets
13 years ago
Carolyn, I got tears in my eyes reading about how the fire chief personally checked in on you. What a nice guy!

I'm glad to hear that all of you made it through okay.

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