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Saturday, 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 MoreThursday/Friday Severe Weather Check-In Thread
Comments (4)Paula, I worry about you and Ken and all that high water. Y'all be extra careful! After all these years of fearing that wildfire would burn us all out of our homes, now we are at the other end of the spectrum. It hasn't even taken hail to knock fruit off our plum trees. Every time we have had really high wind and heavy rain together, the ground is covered with fruit. I still hope to get enough plums to make some jelly, but that looks more and more iffy every day. My garden is the same as yours---without raised beds, there simply would be no garden left to produce anything. This week I yanked out the snap peas----the plants, though heavily loaded with peas and still in bloom, were rotting off at the ground, and they are in raised beds. I harvested all I could find as I pulled out each plant and put it on the compost pile. I'm not going to plant anything else in the ground where they were growing until we have had a few days of sunshine to dry out the waterlogged soil in those raised beds. I fear that any seed sowed there now would just rot or wash away anyhow. Robert, What is a sunny day? (grin) I feel like we have become obsessed with mowing and edging the property, precisely because we cannot do it. On the first sunny, dry-ish day we get, Tim will be mowing, and I'll be out there with the string trimmer tidying up the edges, and along fence lines and such. Tim did mow the other day, so at least the grass in the area closest to the house, garden and outbuildings is low, but the roadside and the pastures are high. You know, that snakey sort of high. I can't wait for us to at least be able to mow pathways through the fields. After Tim mowed the other day, he had just parked the riding mower in the garage when gas became pouring out from underneath it. As he was pushing it back out of the garage, I was running to the house to grab cat litter to absorb the spilled gasoline. He eventually found a hose loose and then two parts on the ground that surely must have had something to do with the loose hose, which I assume was a fuel line. So, before he can mow again, he'll have to fix the mower again. It is always something, isn't it? We've never had to work so hard just to mow the grass. Larry, Thanks for the laugh! You always say something that puts a smile on my face. I like the idea of a boat delivered by a drone. Yesterday when I heard the UPS truck coming down the road (you can hear it from a long way off once you are used to what it sounds like) I went down the driveway to meet the driver down at the road. I wouldn't have wanted for him to bring that big old truck up our flooded driveway as he might have gotten stuck in the mud. Has anyone here been counting days and nights of rain? Is anyone approaching 40 days and 40 nights? It might be time to start building an ark, and if I was building that ark, it would have two sections---one for two of each kind of animal and the other for two of each kind of plant. Oh, who am I kidding? It would have a third section for 100 tomato plants. Dawn...See Moreweather check
Comments (45)NW Arkansas. it never got above freezing yesterday and then it started to snow last night, which wouldn't of bothered me, we'd just stay home, except my husband has a trip to Kansas today and I don't know what the roads are going to be like between here and there. I'm supposed to be driving a friend to the big city for a dental appointment and I'm not looking forward to it at all, since we live in the hills and they don't take real good care of the roads around here. Fortunately I have four-wheel-drive but even that is not enough. I kind of wish her dentist would call and cancel her appointment before we head out. Of all times for it to snow. Unpredicted, too....See MoreWeather check
Comments (27)Lake County, Illinois. We had 5 - 7 inches of rain overnight and into the morning, with another three predicted tonight. Highways flooded. Commuter rail halted. It's been a wet year, so the ground was already saturated. Lake Michigan has had high levels all year. This was a chain of fast-moving downpours. We live along a 'creek' that was dug deeper to drain fields in the late 1800's. The banks are at least 12 feet high. Right now the water is a couple feet over the banks and almost touching the bottom of the bridge. It's like a flume today. The low corner of our back yard has more water than we've seen in 16 years. That will eventually clear. I'm concerned with a small 'pond' that forms on the higher side of our house, between us and our neighbor. (This only became a problem after a new home was built there, with a deep basement.) We have power and a working sump in our unfinished basement. I hope it doesn't overheat! Wisconsin also had downpours, and that water will be moving downstream in the major rivers like the Des Plaines and the Fox....See More
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9 years agoI think it was around 80* Christmas day. It is warm and humid. I live on the Texas Gulf Coast. Quite a difference from Christmas in 2004 when we actually had a white Christmas here. I am not enthused by snow but I am sure the kids enjoyed it, although we got more snow here than the surrounding areas....lake effect, they said. I hate cold weather. If I could stay in the house and cook, I'd be okay with it but I have too much to do outside. I am one who would rather sweat than freeze. I have seen snow less than a half dozen times in my whole life.
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