Heavy Storms

Heavy rain, large hail, possible tornadoes and strong winds are all a part of the predictions for today. We had a very heavy rain about 5 p.m. CST yesterday. Got 1 1/2 inches in minutes. Raining hard again this morning and first one brought another 1/4 inch. It's not over yet. Supposed to get at least 2 more storms soon. It has been a wet week. So much flooding up in St. Paul, Minnesota. I really feel so sorry for the people living up there. The Mississippi is unusually highly flooded and it isn't over yet. That means more flooding downstream, going thru Iowa and all states on down to the Gulf of Mexico.

Another Rainy Day

Here it is, another rainy day. However, we really need the rain. Everything is so dry. But have you seen the news about the Tropical Storm that hit Texas? They had tornadoes in downtown Dallas that did real damage. We have relatives in Dallas and wonder how they are doing. They got as much as 16 inches of rain in one place and 11 and 12 inches in many other places. Southern Texas is so very dry but when it rains like that, most of it just runs off. It doesn't have time to sink into the ground. There is a lot of flooding and it sounds like it did as much damage as some hurricanes have done in the past in other places.

Weather Report

The weather report is not too good today. We are getting heavy rain but that is not so bad. By this afternoon or tonight it is going to switch to snow. We don't want that. We are supposed to get 1-2 inches but it should melt quite fast as the ground is warm. There is a great deal of corn in the fields to be combined so we sure don't need any huge amounts of snow. I heard they are getting many inches of snow in South Dakota yesterday with over 60 mph winds. Now that is bad.

Stormy Weather

Here we go again. We are in a tornado watch and it is getting darker by the minute. When we got home we opened all the windows to let some fresh air in. But it looks like we will have to close them very soon. The weather is moving in fast and we could get another 5 inches of rain. Everything is badly flooded now. I don't know where it is all going to go. Even the mail is delayed because the town where they sort it has just been flooded.

Weather

What unusual Spring weather we are having. We have had about 12-14 inches of rain in about 3 days. It looks like Minnesota around here. The land of a thousand lakes and we don't have many lakes. The corn fields are flooded out and probably too late to replant corn. Will probably have to plant beans instead, that is if it dries out enough to plant anything at all in the wet places.