Sunday Severe Weather Check-In Thread
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Comments (3)I have had it with all this rain! It is the end of May and I do not have anything successfully growing yet! For the past two months it has rained almost every day. Not only has it been raining but the temperatures have been cold, for the time of year. My hoophouse has been flooded several times this spring, usually with around a foot of water. Have been able to till some areas but before I can even think of planting anything a storm comes through and does away with any hope of planting anything. The few things that I have planted, did not come up at all or came up and just sat there. I am sick of almost getting my truck, trailer and tractor stuck whenever we try to till somewhere. Wish I would have planted some rice by now then I could actually have something growing:) Sorry for all the complaining. Just had to get it out. At least at some point I know I should be able to get my warm weather stuff in, but there are a lot of farmers that may have a complete loss for this year. If the farmers around here are not able to get there corn in, in about a week then it is going to be too late to plant and will be a total loss for them. I can not imagine how frustrated they must be right now. It is terrible to see all the fields just sitting there, this time of the year. I hope things are going a lot better for everyone else....See MoreSunday's Severe Weather Forecast
Comments (6)Reed, I feel sorry for Tulsa. This morning Dr. Forbes distinctly mentioned Tulsa having a '7' TorCon more than he mentioned OKC, though at one point he said the storms would form near OKC and move towards Tulsa. The issue will be how violent they are when they form...even if they form in the OKC area, they could be violent from the start or they might gain in strength as discrete cells merge together into a squall line. I think today I wouldn't want to be in Iowa either. We have crazy wind here today. I guess it must be from outflow boundaries from yesterday's storms. I have gigantic trees north of my garden and they were dancing back and forth in the wind so much that it was scaring me and I came inside to get away from them. If a tree is going to fall on my garden, it needs to do it while I am not in the garden. Wulfleton, I am sorry you're feeling homesick. Count your blessings every single day because you do have a lot to be grateful for. Oklahoma has beautiful weather in April and October. The rest of the year we just cringe, hold our breath and hope for the best. The good thing is that once you have learned how to successfully garden in OK, you can garden anywhere. Today's weather likely won't turn out to be nothing, but maybe we'll luck out and the worst storms will hit sparsely populated areas so at least fewer people are harmed that way. Dawn...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 MoreSevere Weather Check-In Thread for Tues, 05-19-2015
Comments (18)I've linked the latest 7-day QPF below. It looks horrible....well, unless you're still in drought, in which case maybe it does look good. We only have 2" in the rain gauge, and I say "only" because rain was much heavier in other parts of southern OK, so I feel lucky we didn't get more. I have no words to describe the mosquitoes here----there are just clouds of them in the air. They are waiting by the back door when I walk out in the mornings. I think Miracle May is going to give us ridiculous numbers of certain pests like mosquitoes. With ants, I've been using a Spinosad ant bait, but I am not sure how effective it is when rain is falling constantly. It always has worked well in the garden's raised beds, but they drain a lot better than the rest of the yard. I don't know how we're ever going to be able to mow again. I might try "mowing" tomorrow with the string trimmer---not 2 or 3 acres, but at least the parts of the yard nearest the house. Hmmm. I wonder how long the big lake-like puddles would have to sit in the yard in order for the bermuda grass to die. Is that even possible? If so, I hope the puddles persist that long. I noticed piles of sawdust alongside the wood boards that edge the asparagus bed and found carpenter ants there, so I ordered an ant bait containing abamectin to use there. It is organic and is effective but pricey. My normal routine of spraying Garrett Juice + Medina Orange Oil or liquid molasses to kill fire ants doesn't work when it is raining almost daily. I think the rain washes away the sprayed products before they can work. We have rain in our forecast every day for the next week, and that has been true most of the month. We don't necessarily get rain every day, but we get it on far too many days lately. The Red River now is expected to crest at a little over 35' on Thursday at the bridge between Thackerville, OK, and Gainesville, TX, and then begin falling, but if more rain keeps falling, then the river level may not fall as expected. Poor Lake Texoma. It is getting tons of runoff. They opened the floodgates a day or two ago and have been trying to release as much as possible but not so much that they are contributing to downstream flooding. A couple of days ago, Texoma had risen 19' in the last 30 days, and I expect that number is rolling over to 20' today. If any of you have plans for Lake Texoma for Memorial Day weekend, I'd call ahead and confirm that the campground or marina facility you're using is still fully open for business. Some businesses have been shutting down as rising water begins to interfere with access to their facility or the safe operation of their facilities. Robert, Our driveway has ravines like yours, and this morning little streams of water are cascading down those ravines. It is hard to figure out when to fix it, but I think it is still too early here. I doubt we'll do much before July because normally in a rainy year like this, we stay really rainy well into June. Scott, It is so good to see lake and river levels recovering in the western half of the state, but the ones in the eastern half are too full now and the number of flood warnings and flash flood warnings seems to be escalating. To our south in Texas, there's a lot more flooding than we are seeing here. I do hope that the rain is falling slowly enough that a lot of it can absorb and recharge the aquifers instead of just all running off and causing flooding. I feel fortunate that those of us north of the Red River have it there to catch all the runoff. A lot of the problem areas in North Texas aren't even from flooded rivers, but rather from flooded creeks that cannot channel the runoff into larger bodies of water fast enough because creeks are just so much smaller than rivers. I feel sorry for everyone in the Norman area that is being flooded. It just seems like flooding is the new normal for Norman, at least this year. Oh wow, a bright yellowish-white light suddenly is shining through my living room windows. Either the Mother Ship from another universe has come to beam me up, or the sun is shining. I'm hoping it is sunshine. I don't intend to step foot in my waterlogged garden today. I harvested everything I could yesterday, so there shouldn't be anything out there that needs to be harvested today. The pathways are like little canals and have been testing the limits of my waterproof boots. I might start some icebox watermelon and muskmelon seeds in paper cups inside today. The snap peas have powdery mildew, so far only on the lower leaves and not on the peas themselves. Once the PM starts in weather like this, it doesn't go away and once it starts affecting the peas, I yank out the plants. I need to have replacement plants ready to go into that bed and climb that trellis. If I get too bored indoors, I might change my mind and go out later today and make a list of which tomato varieties have set fruit versus which ones have not. I think there's more green tomatoes on the plants than I had thought, so we still might have a good tomato year if the raised beds can drain well enough to keep the plants happy and productive. 7-Day QPF...See Morewulfletons
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