Spring Storms

I told the storm story on email and got some responses:

Friend wrote: I am watching the weather channell are you in the storm cellar.? Reply: Not yet.
Friend wrote: they just said the M word (mansfield) as having 2" of rain
Response: That was last night. The storms rolled around us. This pile of rocks seems to split weather. Ice, tornados, etc go heavily to the east around Houston, or up Interstate 44. There was tornados at St. Mary's last night and Sedalia this afternoon. This morning in KS, Lawrence for one. Funnels over KC, J & Jwoke to sirens and went to their basement spot.

We did put some extra drinking water and batteries in the basement for flashlights & radio. Will probably pack a suitcase with blanket and extra undies, etc. to grab if we need to head out. Ch. 3 & 10 in Springfield are heavy duty storm trackers. When it's cloudy the weather channel doesn't tell us anything, but they were working last night. I have the perpetual weather channel thing on the computer. I get thunder like at the produce department when a warning updates. The icon is red. TV keeps the affected counties down in the corner. When it updates, the machine makes a noise. I don't remember it doing that last night, so maybe they added this aspect.

Our other warning system is Sillyvester the b/w cat. Last night when the storm thunder was rolling in, D. opened the basement door. Silly almost knocked him down running down there. No can find! After the storm was past, we hear a pitiful crying at the basement door. So, we've decided when Silly gets interested in the basement, we'd better be paying attention.

New Beginnings with Spring in the Ozarks

Big thunder boomies and rain here all night, but no storm damage. There will no doubt be some flooding in the "hollers", they aren't putting out weather channel warnings yet. People in other areas had the beejeezus scared out of them with high winds, hail and rain. Table Rock Lake and Branson were the worst last night. The TV people pre-empted much of the night with reports, etc. which is good. The rain has really greened stuff up. Forsythia is getting the yellow flowers. The one that got a good hair cut a couple weeks ago even has a few buds on it. Our neighbor and I were discussing how to trim the ones by the road as we don't want to give them a good hair cut. They are closer to the road, so their three big shrubs stop a lot of dust, noise and give them a little privacy screen. We have one right on the road that stops a lot of dust, with big lilacs paced across the grass toward the house. We're thinking that if we take the trimmer with us when we get the mail and whack a little, we can groom them, but not get us too dusty!

The local saying is that we are 2 weeks from a drought. I think we're cool for a few days.