Thursday's Severe Weather Check-In Thread
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Comments (9)Rain, wind, lightening, thunder but no real damage to property, unless you count the corn that is taking a nap. All of my corn stalks have fallen to the south. I hope I can hill up around them and get them to stand again, but right now it is way to muddy. I had some potato plants fall over, but I think they just fell from the weight of the straw when it got wet, and I think I can fix that. We got one and three quarters of an inch of rain at the Mesonet, bringing our 7 day total to almost five and a half inches. I had my containerized tomato plants covered fairly well so they are fine. When night fell, it looked like I had a derailed train in my yard from the way I had to cover them. I had a small tarp across tops of short tomato cages, and 7-gal nursery pots over those that were still small enough to cover. Most were touching the tops of the pots, but it worked. My last new piece of row cover now has several holes in it, so will probably cover the eggplant with a piece of curtain material today and hope enough sun gets through. I haven't taken it off yet, but it almost looks as if some animal tried to get under there last night. Since my hollyhock leaves look like lace, I know the eggplant couldn't survive a flea beetle attack at this stage. I have been trying to keep the remainder of my tomato transplants healthy so I can have them to give away at a church gardening class that is next Wednesday night. They have been inside for 24 hours, so I have to go get all of them back outside today. I don't see any bad weather coming for our part of the state today, so I hope it is safe for all the plants today....See MoreFriday's Severe Weather Check-In Thread
Comments (30)Stockergal, I don't get it either. Do people think they all are superheroes and can walk (or drive) on top of the water? It makes me crazy. Tim and his staff had to deal with people trying to drive through a flooded airport terminal road that was closed down and barricaded for 4 hours last night, and that was after other people already were stranded in the deep water in their vehicles. The same kind of stuff went on in our county last night and again tonight. I'd never drive into deep water but people seem to think it is okay to give it a try. Everyone thinks the rules apply to someone else, not them. We are living in a parallel universe. While I was reading about your cattle and the fence, firefighters from our VFD were out working an accident in which a vehicle crashed through a pasture fence....and in an odd twist, the pasture belonged to a gentleman who's on our fire board. I noticed that they were trying to contact him to get him to come out and confirm if there were cattle in that pasture because they were going to leave if there was any chance there might be cattle in there and that the fence needed to be fixed before the cops and firefighters left the scene. All of this was occurring in torrential rainfall and flooding. Hazel, It is hard on the animals. I've been trying to get the dogs and cats outside for a bit when it isn't raining, but they are tired of wet paws and just sit on the porch and look at me, as if they're saying "I don't want to walk out there and get my feet wet." The two young dogs, roughly 8 months old, are crate-trained and their crate is like a security blanket. When the thunder and lightning are getting to them, they go get into one dog crate together and cuddle up with their blanket. The older dogs are half-deaf so the weather doesn't bother them noise-wise, but I think they're getting tired of the mud too. I know I am. The corn stood up on its own and looked great this morning. Then, along came tonight's massive rainfall and rowdy winds and I have no idea if the corn will be standing upright or lying on its side when I look at it tomorrow morning. For all I know, it may be floating down the Red River, with assorted vehicles, boats and houses by this time. We have had huge rainfall and the Red River is flooding and expected to crest tomorrow afternoon here at the bridge between Love County, OK and Cooke County, TX. I suspect tomorrow's crest is just the beginning. Before long, I bet Lake Texoma will be flooding. We've lived here long enough to know what this sort of prolonged rainy spell results in, and it isn't pretty. With the chickens, I can imagine the smell especially! Chickens probably get stressed. We have a Polish crested hen that paces and hollers if you are slow to come let them out to free-range every morning. Our hens are good about putting themselves under the deck or back into their coop if it starts raining, but we are keeping the chicks, ranging in age from 3 days to 5 weeks, inside the coop until the rain stops falling for hours every day. The rain keeps coming in waves and I don't think we're done yet. It rained so hard tonight that I imagine there's going to be 2 or 3" more in the rain gauge tomorrow morning. I hope I have a garden left, and I hope that our gravel driveway didn't wash away. The rain fell tremendously hard. I keep telling myself rain is good and we usually don't get enough of it, but I am so over this rain that it isn't even funny. Every square inch of our place is either mud or water...or muddy water. The plants are at their limit in terms of how much they'll tolerate and I feel like I am there too. Unfortunately, there's a whole lot more rain coming. Without even knowing how much rain fell this evening, I know we've already had more rain than our average May rainfall and we're only one week into the month. Today in the garden I could smell that sour, mucky smell of waterlogged soil that has been too wet for too long. I'm hoping it is just the pathways, but fear it is all of the garden. Even the raised beds are far too wet. Our rainfall for the next 7 days is expected to be as heavy as it was for the past 7 days. It is amazing, but in a bad way. Lisa, If we got as much rain tonight as I think we did, then we'll be at 7 or 8" for the week, which is so ridiculous considering we came into May totally waterlogged to begin with. Carol, We had the most incredible lightning. I hope these storms have calmed down before they get to your place. They were so incredibly loud and the constant lightning was like a strobe light that wouldn't quit. I just dread Saturday. If Friday's storms didn't somehow do something to lower the severe weather risk, then it is likely to be a horrible day and we may have a major tornado outbreak. It is like the weather is determined to hunt down our gardens and find a way to damage or kill every living plant. After we get through Saturday, then there's Sunday's severe weather. I'm so ready for a break---even for just one sunny, beautiful day, even though the humidity and heat index probably will not be pleasant if we get that sunny day....See MoreSaturday Severe Weather Check In
Comments (13)George, You are a very sound sleeper! We had a good-sized tree snap entirely in half about 5' above ground during this morning's storm, so Tim and I will spend part of tomorrow cutting down that tree and cleaning up the mess. Amy, I thought I did a fairly good job of not freaking out because I was watching it on radar and listening to the local storm spotters long before we were tornado-warned, so I knew where it was and which way it was moving. I knew we were not in its path if it continued on in the same direction without making a strange curve or twist to the west or northwest. I still went and opened the tornado shelter and stood by the open door under relatively light and bright cloudy skies and watched the tremendously dark storm move along to our east. I could have hopped right in and slammed the door if something started coming our way. This morning's fierce storm was 100 times more scary here at our house than yesterday's tornado. The Red River is up high and running swift and it looks ugly. The trees on the river sandbars that still had their heads above water yesterday are completely submerged this morning. In dry years, folks camp on those sandbars, sometimes for a week at a time, treating the sandbars like a little private island. Well, no one is going to be camping on them now, unless they are in a submarine. I'm hoping this morning's wicked line of storms used up a lot of the potential energy and maybe gives us a quieter day than forecast. Do I think that is likely? Probably not, but it is what I'm hoping for anyway. I need to go look at today's Convective Outlook to see what it says, but I don't want to. I'm afraid it all will be bad news for us. I prefer to live in denial. Dawn...See MoreSaturday, 5-23, Severe Weather Check-In Thread
Comments (37)George, That sounds like Tim and I. We usually try to fix things with duct tape until it cannot be fixed any more. stockergal, We have sunshine this afternoon and it is gorgeous....kinda hurts your eyes though as they haven't seen it in so long. The photos of the storm damage are astounding. One of the things that is so bad is that damage just keeps happening week after week after week, with cities, counties, companies and individuals having to repair first one thing and then another, and you never catch up because as soon as you repair the damage from one storm (or, even before you get a chance to make the repairs), here comes another storm with more damage. This week on our evening news they kept showing the rising water at Lake Texoma as it began to flood buildings...the same ones it flooded in 2007. Deja vu. My only comment on that is that if I had a building that flooded, I'd rebuild it higher afterwards, in case another flood comes along in, oh, another 8 years. I guess lakeside businesses think that they won't get flooded again, but they have....and not even a decade later. Molly, I'm glad that one missed yall. That is too close for comfort. I think we have had more tornado warnings in our county (which, historically, hasn't had a lot of tornadoes compared to most other parts of OK) this spring than we've had in any other year since we moved here in 1999. I'd like to have a year where we don't have to go to the shelter a single time, just to make up for having to run to it so many times this year. Dawn...See Moreokoutdrsman
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