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The weather alert thingie in our bedroom woke me up early this morning – about 2:45 a.m. – flashing red. I got up to see what it was warning us about. A severe thunderstorm. That started about 3 a m. There was an impressive amount of thunder and lightning, along with a good amount of rain – just perfect for feeling grateful we had a roof over our head, a strong house, and good windows – and then turning over and happily going back to sleep.
It was still raining, or raining again – though without all the fanfare, when we got up for breakfast. The dogs didn’t seem to mind going out to take care of business, but they were barking at the door only moments later. The wind was whipping trees around, so I closed the garage door for at least the morning.
We’re due for severe weather – rain, gusty winds, hail, possible tornadoes, possible flooding, and flying hair balls – this afternoon and evening, so the whole day will be interesting.
Both doggies have been out again and are happily playing. The cats are curled up in their ‘cube’ beds on top of the woodpile in the garage. The fish are happily swimming in their still-clean water. The people are happy they don’t have to go do a bunch of errands today. We might drive down quickly and get the mail at the bottom of the driveway, but today will be a nice inside day for us.
Hold onto your hats if you’re in our area today. If you aren’t, I hope you’re enjoying the weather where you are.
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Hello, or good morning. We had that kind of weather last weekend. I enjoyed your post this morning while drinking my coffee. Hope the weather doesn’t get to nasty for you like it did us. We were kind of stuck in our town for a few days due to floods.
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Ooh. Where do you live? I’m sorry you had the flooding. That is so devastating. I hope things are getting better now. I’m glad you enjoyed the post.
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northwestern Wisconsin. Our back yard was like a lake. Our garden (which we had just started planted a week prior is maybe ruined. We are just hoping that the tomatoes come back as they were heirlooms and black grape cherry tomatoes. we replanted the greenbeans that were already sprouting. I am hopeful. otherwise no damage to the house. Sumpumps do help.
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Wow. I’m glad to hear that some of your garden is salvageable. Fingers crossed about the heirloom tomatoes. So good that you didn’t have damage to the house. We live on top of a ridge line, so we don’t have to worry about flooding, but tornadoes, lightning, high winds, and wildfires are a concern here in Arkansas.
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Oh my. You are down south. Storms are harsher. I lived in Kentucky in my youth and i remember well. have any of those happened to you. I am hopingthat you never have to go through that.
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I was born in Chicago, but came to Oklahoma early. I’ve lived in “Tornado Alley” much of my life, but thankfully never seen one. One year a tornado clobbered the barn of a house on the street above ours, then jumped over ours and hit the one across the street. That’s the closest. I hope I NEVER see one. :0)
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wow, how lucky you are. God is watching over you. I have gone through them and never want I will just stick with the freezing temps and snow. We don’t get tornadoes here, as Lake Superior keeps us sheltered.
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I don’t much like tornadoes. I went to Washington Island years ago. Are you familiar with this place?
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no. never heard of it.
where is it?
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It’s just off the tip of south-east Wisconsin, I think. We went there for a week one summer. It was just warm enough to jump into the private beach for half an hour. It was 110 in OK at the time, and felt like we had gone to a different planet. :0)
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