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rain? what is rain?

It's that stuff that made it so humid again. But at least we got some.

Only .10 at the Kuhn place. Not enough to amount to squat

Don't know how much we got (gauge broken), but it was a gully washer. Temp is 78.

I think my guage had about .40

Bout .45 here. It was just nice to sit on the porch and watch it rain again.

hey, it rained here finally, about .75 . sounds like hays had all kinds of hell break loose with wind, power lines down and some street flooding

2.8" here. Hole in the roof of my garden shed from one branch. Lucky to have power looking at another. Neighbors car had a branch all the way across it. It used to be a small yellow car. It is now a smaller yellow car.

Eighth street and Fort both had cars stalled and water at least curb top high.
Saw several emergency vehicles headed out on Golf Course Rd. Might be something in the paper about it tomorrow.

Looks like more coming.


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Justoo wrote:

2.8" here. Hole in the roof of my garden shed from one branch. Lucky to have power looking at another. Neighbors car had a branch all the way across it. It used to be a small yellow car. It is now a smaller yellow car.

Eighth street and Fort both had cars stalled and water at least curb top high.
Saw several emergency vehicles headed out on Golf Course Rd. Might be something in the paper about it tomorrow.

they had some powerlines down and some vehicles were involved but no one was hurt

Glad to hear that. Neighbors lost power across the street. Told them I would loan them my wet vac tomorrow.
Other neighbors said they watched the branch put the hole in my shed roof. Said it bounced off of the power lines a couple of times before hitting building.

City has our street clear and passable. Police said the priority is in clearing the streets and making them safe. The neighbor gal was encouraged to wait until tomorrow to file a report on her car.

It was SERIOUSLY ugly down here. That had to be a microburst or something. We've got limbs and a swing set and toys and lawn chairs etc freaking everywhere. Destroyed our peach tree and another huge limb from another tree hit our house. Weist had several windows blown out and there are powerpoles and lines down in several place in south Hays.

Looks like 2-5 inch rain in alot of the Western half of the county with the biggest between Yocemento and Hays. I'm only showing about 1.3 in my gauge, but it could be worse. Not too far away in SW Trego county they got less than a half inch. Looks like Hoxie hardly got wet.

4.5" total.

3.30 @ the Kuhn place

I took this at 6am at our house this morning. The campus looked like a warzone this morning.

You guys got our other forecasted inch and then some. Beginning to wonder when Luke's anti-rain curse for Ellis expires.

The South end of Ellis did get 2+ inches though. I got 1.35 so didn't get skunked like SW Trego County. Probably be like last year and get 3 straight days of rain when I least want it.

luv2cook wrote:

I took this at 6am at our house this morning. The campus looked like a warzone this morning.

That's the type of gauge we have, L2K. 2.6" in ours.

Get ready kids. This just in from the NWS in Dodge for the Hays area.

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Update. Not a lot has changed, 100% chance for Sunday night and Monday. Snowfall amounts in Hays could be in the 7-9 inch range. There will also be stong and gusty winds that may cause drifting and white out like conditions. The NWS is leaving us under a watch right now and may change to a warning later tonight. Travel will be impacted and only go out if necessary.

frack it...bring it on,,, we need the moisture at the Kuhn place

Pffffffffffffft I will believe this when I see it. Looks to me that the NWS is full of it once again.

I work out of town now for a company whose policy has generally been if you have 4WD you are expected to be at work. And I have alot of things needing done outdoors at home, so I'm sure it will be a full out blizzard.

we have over an inch here in Hoxie - roads are pretty slick.

Now they are predicting lower totals here and nothing but snow showers by early afternoon tomorrow. But I'd rather see them wrong like this than the time they predicted 2 or 3 inches and we got 12. At any rate, I wouldn't trade for the ice storm expected in the South. Nothing more dangerous than Deliverance on ice.

Radar looks like Sheridan and Decatur counties are getting more than most.

YIKES!

We've gotten about 6" of snow in southern Jackson County with a heavy band due to drop another few inches the next couple of hours. Oh, Joy!

suzyr wrote:

We've got about 6"

6 inches can make quite a mess if there's some blowing going on.

Ratzilla wrote:

6 inches can make quite a mess if there's some blowing going on.

Double

So how'd you fare in Topeka and KC? We got maybe 5 here but the cold is the worst part. I said piss on it and turned all my Christmas lights back on and shot some video of them with the snow falling. Might as well get something good out of this. Probably pissing off the neighbor though. He bitched last year because I ran my lights past New Year. He musta been outta weed.

We got about 10" OF SNOW (Dx... ) in my part of NE Ks. The streets in Topeka are awful! The main thoroughfares are no better than the many side streets. . . I think the city road crew took the day off.

They learned from the New York snow removal team. Prolly drinking beer in the shop instead.

I bet streets with certain residents or businesses were well cleaned. NYC residents complained that Manhattan was completely cleaned before anyone else saw a plow. Money even talks to snow plows.

In the KC area we had around 5 to 8 inches of SNOW. Where I live we had about 6.

suzyr wrote:

We got about 10" OF SNOW

Degeneration X wrote:

In the KC area we had around 5 to 8 inches of SNOW.

In this kind of cold there aren't many inches of anything else. But I do have a whopping 36 to 48 inches hanging low.

Of Icicles..........

Well you East staters are set to get a bunch of inches again. We've only had a trace so far here, but the layer of ice was enough without snow. The sun should come back tomorrow and it'll melt off here. Sounds like KC will be digging out again though.

Wind, snow, ice. Blizzard conditions. 2000 miles. 30 states. 100 million people. Worst storm in 50 years. State of emergency. Natural Disaster.
In Maine, they just call it: Wednesday.

Wimpy New Yorkers:

hahaha that picture is awesome!

I am surprised many have school today with the windchills just as bad if not worse than yesterday. Oh well one less day to pay daycare for an extra child!

I wonder how many tries it took them before they got it to stand on end like that.????

My nephew says KC got about 18 inches. As cold as it's been I'm glad we didn't get much here. A 20 inch snow might be good for the water tables and such, but not when it's accompanied by, and then followed by, minus 25 or colder wind chills. Frozen pipes suck bad enough without wading and or shoveling through drifts to get under the house.

that photo from DX last night look really bad

The Other One wrote:

Photo from a car wreck in Salem, NH today.

"I'd like to report an accident."

"Is it a rollover?"

"No, more like a lawn dart."

Awesome snowstorm pictures here.


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I'm just hoping that gotdamn groundhog is right this time. I'm really tired of Kansas winters.

If he saw his shadow it's 6 more weeks of Winter. But he didn't so it's only a month and a half till Spring.

Holy smokes! Our local weather guy, Drew Switzer shows you guys are to receive 14.51" of snow. Are ya ready?

Not everyone agrees with him.

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Tuesday...Breezy...Snow. Areas of blowing snow in the
afternoon. Snow accumulation around 3 inches. Total snow accumulation
around 4 inches. Highs around 11. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent. Wind
chill readings 4 below to 14 below zero.

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