Glad to hear everybody is ok. We spent Wed. Night in the cellar. Here in SW OKC we received over 10" of rain and multiple tornado threats. We spent over 5 hours in the cellar and crawled out to find a river running in front of our house and as far north as I could see!! I think the flooding scared me more than the tornadoes. My daughter and grandson (he's 3 1/2 ) were here and she stayed overnight because she couldn't get home because of the flooding. I am ready to say enough is enough. Our house sits on a hillside to no water in the house, donkeys were in the barn, dogs in the cellar, so all are ok. I am dreading Friday and Saturday, I guess we will be back in the cellar, I just hope the rain is light.

Our dog has learned that when the neighbors visit in the middle of the night, he needs to go to the shelter. Not his first rodeo. LOL We only got an inch of rain this time so we didn't have the road closing problems that we had during the last big storm. I saw a small tree down on the way to church and when I returned home there was a huge tree in a downtown street in front of city hall. Half of my garden is OK, but things in the lower half look like life is over for them. In addition to the rain, there is a french drain that feeds into that area. It works wonders in dry years, and in normal years it doesn't get planted until after the Spring rains are ended, but this year I have about 30 tomato plants that will be lost. Too soon to know about the peppers yet. We just haven't had much heat yet, so everything is late. I gave most of my tomato transplants away to 3 different families, now I am trying to improve the few I had not planted so I can get a few of them into the garden.....if it ever drys out enough. I have 6 plants on the high side of my garden, so all are not lost.

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

I have heard from Macmex and they are fine and had minimal damage. Still wondering about Mulberryknob. The only thing this has to do with gardening is the fact that it involves seeds, but it was kind of funny. A few years ago George shared some hot pepper seeds with me and I plant them almost every year because Al likes for me to dry them and grind them into flakes and he sprinkles them on his food but a bottle will last him a long time. Last year in late Fall I picked several branches of these little bright red peppers and just stuck them in a glass to dry. Al still had pepper flakes so I just never got around to grinding that bunch and thought I would probably just keep them for seeds. This weekend George sent me a message and asked me if I had some of those pepper seeds because his didn't germinate this year. I didn't see the msg until yesterday, but as soon as I saw it, I cut the stems off of some peppers and stuck them down in a little plastic jewelry size bag, and put that bag inside a bubble wrap type mailer and took it to the post office. It was super light, and the envelope probably weighed more than the contents but it puffed up a little because the seeds were whole and the plastic bag probably had a little air in it. I had to wait in line for awhile, and when I gave the lady the package to weigh, she said, "That will be $2.45." I gave her a questioning look and said, "Really?" She said, "If you can make it thinner, it won't cost as much". Without a pause, I made a fist, reached across the counter to the envelope and gave it three quick hits with the side of my folded fist. She pulled back a little and gave a little giggle, and said, "That will be 94 cents". The woman at the counter beside me laughed and said, "That would make a good commercial". It was not my intent to entertain the Post Office patrons, but it seems I did. George said he received the package today, but I didn't ask him if the pods remained in the plastic bag, or if I blew them all out into the inside of the mailing envelope. I have now been educated by USPS and realize that although you are light weight, it will still cost more if you look fat. LOL