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...on my cupcakes.

mmmm cupcakes w/sprinkles! beautiful rain tooo!

Does that mean that if I want the yard mowed, I better get out there and do it myself?

I'd do it but I am in Hace.

Thanks, Al. Got it done. No rain for 2 days and there's still standing water. Mucky tracks everywhere!

Looks like big rain North of here at 3:20am.

Hey suzy. Has your yard dried out yet?

Yay,windows in house and car open.I always do that-I never know if it's gonna rain.Guess I could become a Kansas weather lady

Justoo wrote:

Hey suzy. Has your yard dried out yet?

It just got dry enough yesterday in most places that you don't "squish" with each step. Didn't last long... rained again this morning. I truly hope we don't have a repeat of last year.

I'd gladly send you guys some of this moisture.

Finally Ellis Co got a real thunderstorm. A mild one, but it had real lightning and rain. I got .30 in the gauge so it wasn't great, but ok for a start. Send more suzy.

And I bet jess slept right through it LOL.

severe weather? I have had a few people tell me the national storm spotter guys are in colby, and plan to stay there tonight and tomorrow because there is supposed to be major storms around here tonight and tomorrow night. Any got any info for me?

Ratzilla wrote:

Finally Ellis Co got a real thunderstorm. A mild one, but it had real lightning and rain. I got .30 in the gauge so it wasn't great, but ok for a start. Send more suzy.

And I bet jess slept right through it LOL.

I must have cause I dont remember any kind of thunderstorm!!!

nobodysbusiness wrote:

severe weather? I have had a few people tell me the national storm spotter guys are in colby, and plan to stay there tonight and tomorrow because there is supposed to be major storms around here tonight and tomorrow night. Any got any info for me?

Here ya go NB. Next 2 days from Severe Storm Forecast Center

I wouldn't get too worried NB. So far the year has been a bust for storms and I really don't see that changing much.

No rain here, please. Got the city-wide garbage sale going this weekend.

suzyr wrote:

No rain here, please. Got the city-wide garbage sale going this weekend.

You've had enough. Give any rain coming your way directions to my garden.

Ratzilla wrote:

suzyr wrote:

No rain here, please. Got the city-wide garbage sale going this weekend.

You've had enough. Give any rain coming your way directions to my garden.

If the rabbits would stay the HECK away from MY garden Id have one that could use some rain too!!

My rabbit eats my dandelions and has thus far ignored the garden.

After a month of absolutely nothing, Vortex2 finally gets lucky.


These are the highlights but I watched the whole thing while it was going on. Pretty cool.

ugh too damn close for me!!

nobodysbusiness wrote:

ugh too damn close for me!!

not close enough for me until the wall cloud went over head

I was watching that earlier but had to change the channel because the old lady wanted to see the news.....good stuff there!

Ratzilla wrote:

My rabbit eats my dandelions and has thus far ignored the garden.

are you serious??
I try to get rid of my dandelions cause my neighbor has a perfect lawn, i dont want them to spread to his lawn. BUT if these rabbits can eat those and NOT my garden I may not be so nice next year!!!!

Plant dandelions near your garden. The early seasons greens are good in a salad and you can make wine with them.

the garden is close to his yard though. Make wine with what J2?

jessks75 wrote:

the garden is close to his yard though. Make wine with what J2?

Dandelion wine. I've never had it, or ate the greens. The rabbits like the flowers and stems before the flowers open. It's pretty funny watching it bite off a flower at the bottom of the stem and see it slowly disappear in it's mouth until finally it gets the flower end in.

That vortex vid was good. It was nice they got such a good chance for getting data and film start to finish with no towns or anything being seriously hit. The end was pretty cool when it had the inner and outer vortex effect.

So here it is the 9th of June and Hays hasnt had shit for thunderstorms. I miss em.

It's been a blessing for some of us. Rain is nice ....t-storms not so nice

suzyr wrote:

Oh, I would have gladly let ya have some! My backyard is a mud pit.

Suz- you sent it east instead of west... My backyard is now a mud pit! It's stormed here off and on ALL DAY! Everytime I'd get the little one calm enough to sleep the thunder would boom and wake him back up! GRRR

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

It's been a blessing for some of us. Rain is nice ....t-storms not so nice

I just mean the plain ole thunder and lightning type storms. Not the hail tornado type storms.

Supposed to be improving chances. I figured it'd start raining and hailing about when the wheat started getting close. Keep the friggin hail off my garden though. Some place in Missouri had softball sized hail that lasted several minutes today. I remember when the Hoxie area got hit with that kind of storm. Nothing was left of the corn fields but stubble.

dz724 wrote:

suzyr wrote:

Oh, I would have gladly let ya have some! My backyard is a mud pit.

Suz- you sent it east instead of west... My backyard is now a mud pit! It's stormed here off and on ALL DAY! Everytime I'd get the little one calm enough to sleep the thunder would boom and wake him back up! GRRR

My son said our backyard would now qualify as a national park, because it's turned into a marshland. Glad I'm not there to see it.

Hey Luke. The rains fizzled out before we got it again and the hot weather is coming soon.



Since you were the one putting out all those negative anti-rain waves try saying "It will rain" and see what happens.

Harvest is near. That should produce results.

Please no hail, had enough last year.

Dumped 2" out of my rain gauge when we got home yesterday. My mother said you guys actually got a couple inches of rain. No?

My gauge showed 1/2 an inch. I think the rain gods just shake a couple times over us after they get done peeing on the rest of you.

So far, the year is going the way I thought it would for our area.

Ratzilla wrote:

My gauge showed 1/2 an inch. I think the rain gods just shake a couple times over us after they get done peeing on the rest of you.

Thats what we had as well.

LukeTHr wrote:

So far, the year is going the way I thought it would for our area.

Way to go Moriarty.

I just had a hunch is all

In hindsight this stands to reason. Ellis Co. was taken by surprise last year just like the meteorologists and over-prepared this year. There have been alot of big storms and huge hail, just not here. The cooler May and June has been nice though and my roof and garden don't need softball size hail.

Just shows how unpredictable weather is. There were lots of concerns last fall that the wet spring/summer was leading into a bad winter, but just as the rains have missed this area so did the big blizzard. Next year it could all reverse again or the whole state could go into dangerous drought. Hell next month we could either dry up in 110 degree heat or flood under a 10 inch rain. Weather is unusual in lots of places this year.

It's tornadoin' time

TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 411
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
410 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009

TORNADO WATCH 411 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

KSC007-025-033-047-051-055-057-063-065-067-069-071-075-081-083-
093-097-101-109-119-129-135-145-151-165-171-175-179-181-185-187-
189-193-195-199-203-150400-
/O.NEW.KWNS.TO.A.0411.090614T2110Z-090615T0400Z/

KS
. KANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

BARBER CLARK COMANCHE
EDWARDS ELLIS FINNEY
FORD GOVE GRAHAM
GRANT GRAY GREELEY
HAMILTON HASKELL HODGEMAN
KEARNY KIOWA LANE
LOGAN MEADE MORTON
NESS PAWNEE PRATT
RUSH SCOTT SEWARD
SHERIDAN SHERMAN STAFFORD
STANTON STEVENS THOMAS
TREGO WALLACE WICHITA
$$

So far the iron curtain is still in place keeping it out of this area.

The local weather is almost as boring as this website tonight.

ahhhh............... blow me........I been thru 3 hail storms in a 1/2 a day between here and Denver.........................in a brand new van.I got pics

Ugh. I'm so sick of this weather. I've got concrete work that needs done and a house to paint. Can't do either in t-storms.

For today

Hey Slickjay. They forgot that little circle around Ellis that that repels all the storms. Hit like a bitch last year, dribbled on this year, yet all around others are getting soaked.