Moni, Is it over there? I hope so.

Paula is okay, Spent time in the cellar but all her family is safe and there is no damage. She's back above ground now.

I am concerned about all our forum members in the areas hit by storms today. There was some softball-sized hail in some portion of the Tulsa area, though I am not sure if it was accompanying the tornado or if it was a second bit of wickedness.

Nothing is happening down here yet. We'll get our rain when the rest of you are sleeping, and it won't hurt my feelings if the storms rain themselves out before they get here.

Dawn

I'm okay. I didn't even get hail, just wind and rain.

2 tornados in Sand Springs. One hopped through Tulsa and the Tulsa airport, Catoosa and further east. I am just north of airport and hubby was there working. Haven't heard much about damage, but lots without power just south and east of us. Came through for rush hour. I only had small hail and wind and rain, of course. Scary for a while.

P-mac here! Yes, I'm safe ...but sheesh Louise! It was rockin' and a'rollin' here for a bit. I'm totally OVER spring at this point. Let's have the Fling and move on....not that I want hot temps but this stuff can just NOT happen as far as I care. Not a fan of watching tornadoes from the opening of my cellar door. Also heard from our former member JoEllen...they are all okay too up by Tulsa. I'm assuming Ilene in NE OK is good too or I think I would have heard from her. OH! And I believe Seedmama & seedlings are good also. I received some "threatening" texts from her if I wasn't in the cellar. haha! Did I cover at least part of the roll-call? =)

Oops! Was signed in under that Spring Fling member but same info applies. (I was afraid that was gonna happen at some point!)

Spring Fling is not allowed to be over spring, at least not until we all get together! :)

Oh, I am glad to hear Jo Ellen is okay. I haven't seen her lately.

OK here. Just have a lake in front and back yard.

We went to "bed" in a closet last night. There was a tornado a few miles North of us. But when I did chores this morning we didn't have any branches down.

I was in the hay barn when the hail hit. Guerrero, our alpha livestock guardian dog, was sleeping in the chicken coop. When the hail hit, suddenly, I had Guerrero as my shadow! It sounded like gunshots on the tin roof!

George
Tahlequah, OK

Hail on our metal roof was impressive sounding last night in Durant. The skies were constantly lit up for quite some time too with flash after flash of lightning. That being said, the intense wind, hail and rain did not seem to do much damage to anything outside. My lettuce was a blown over a little when I checked on my small garden this morning, but that is about it.

It is good to know that everyone who's checked in so far is safe and well, and with mostly just shattered nerves, mud, puddles and one nervous dog. George, I was watching that radar last night and hoping y'all were safe there. I hope we do hear from Dorothy and Larry and all the others who haven't checked in yet.

Our storm arrived shortly before midnight and it was just a loud, severe and very fast-moving thunderstorm that dropped 0.60" of rain at our house. So, we have new puddles this morning and mud in places that were dry at least on the surface yesterday, but I don't care. I'm just relieved the storms across the state weren't any worse than they were. Moore, south OKC and Norman just can't catch a break when the weather turns severe. It is mind-boggling.

Boy, I am glad that I'm not living up there any more.

kfrinkle, You and I were posting at the same time so I missed your comments. The hail we had here south of Marietta was very brief but it rained hard, and rain was about the last thing we needed. I didn't find any damage outdoors. The storm flew through here fast that I didn't expect much rain and was surprised how much fell in a brief period. The lightning show was impressive, and we were watching lightning to our north for 3 or 4 hours before the storm got here, which was just crazy.

I hope the rest of this week is quiet. I noticed there's rain in our forecast for early next week, and am just hoping to be able to mow and do some routine yard and garden work before it rains again.

Dawn

Nothing new here, just rain and wind. emptied an inch out of the rain gauge.

Dawn, yeah, my yard is looking like we have abandoned our house to the native ecology. Looks like it will be a few days before it dries out here.

When our rain finally ended we had received 1.5 inches, so we are really wet.

We just had wind and rain. The tomatoes I had started for DW were blown off the porch and landed up-side-down on the lawn. I will be able to save a few of them, and will buy others that I need. I have not checked for property damage yet.

Reed, Oh c'mon now. Don't you miss the blaring of the tornado sirens? The frantic rush for shelter? The sound of hail on the roof breaking your heart because you know the hail is pounding your garden to a pulp as well? Don't you miss all those lovely signs of spring? (grin) Remember, my friend, that y'all have tornadoes there too.

Robert, That was too much.....you didn't need any more moisture at all.

Kfrinkle, Every time we dry up even a little, it rains again. I'd like to not only have it dry up but have it stay dry just for a couple of days so we can mow.

Carol, Your potatoes may need scuba gear.

Rain is such a blessing and, as gardeners, we all know that, but too much at one time is just too much.

Dawn

I got misted on for 5 minutes. Dh left work early cuz on the radio they kepy mentioning where we live. and the last time I hd mega problems. The basement is under our kitchen but door is outside. Handle broke off door weight broke of corse never been fixed. I had scooter, feefee and mama cat all in tub with bird sitting on scooters head. He remembered how mad I was seriens going off too nasty to see hauling dogs not having my celler he came home quick. Sad tho the T changed directions and small children lost there life in Piedmont.Sorry for everyones damage but glad all ok sorry keys on laptop not working. It don't rain here, it don't rain here but glad for the mist.

Tree

Our power just came back late last night. We're in a weird area--it's not really Moore, Norman or Oklahoma City--but it's also all of them.

We just had things like outdoor furniture blown around. BUT my new baby chicks needed their heat lamp and were struggling. I had to drive them to my Mom's house, which was not easy because to get to her house you have to go through the damaged areas that have closed roads. I ended up going around the long way with the heater on. The chicks made it and I brought them back home this afternoon. So happy to have my electricity back.

Power back on..glad I bought the generator and storm shelter last year...houses destroyed east of us a block away at main and janeway, school north of us roof off...had 30 seconds to jump in shelter...sheds blown everywhere behind us. We were lucky again here in Moore....no damage,,,hope 3 times is not a charm.......and we were worried about the volcano...ha!

Momfryhover, I am glad too for your and your family's sake. It was so very close to you. We moved here to southern OK about two months before the 1999 tornado up there and didn't have a tornado shelter at the time. Within a year or two, we had a tornado shelter put in even though our county, statistically, doesn't get hit very often. (It only takes one, as they say.) We didn't buy a generator until last year.

I honestly thought we wouldn't use a tornado shelter very much, but we have had to go to it a surprising number of times. We only go to it if there's a tornado warning for our county. We get warnings somewhat often (not often like y'all do, though) but often the tornadoes stay in the air and just scare everyone to death without touching down on the ground, or they fly over our heads and hit an adjacent county where they then do their damage.

How did the volcano work out? Did the lava flow creep very close to y'all? It isn't getting much coverage here from the media any more, so I lost track of what was going on with it over the course of the winter.

Dawn

We remain here in Oklahoma mostly for family. As severe as the weather is getting, not sure if we want to stay. Right now, in Hawaii, the flow stopped short of Pahoa, just 5 miles from our place. The burning forest and the vog from the flow has been really bad this winter so we are glad not to be there. It is not getting the press it was anymore. The volcano is very active farther up so it remains to be seen what will happen next, but if it starts flowing again, it could head straight for our place....so for now, we will stay in Moore...until we figure out what to do. So glad we have the shelter and so are our neighbors. We had 5 people, 2 dogs and a cat down there...they all behaved!