Frog Stranglin' Gully Washer

[texasjohn]

That stuff is just about to hit us right now... lightening and thunder and rain have just started... we are under a extremely severe storm warning.... something that has not happened for numerous years....promises tornados, 3 inch hail or better, many inches of rain, flooding, etc

We live on a hill.... so no flood worries... we're all carrying flashlights, have made plans for going to tornado shelter if need be, weather radios have fresh batteries, generator is freshly fueled...

The rain outside is now reaching frog strangler gully washer porportions, we'll see how long it lasts... gonna be a long night...

 

[Egon]

Good to see you came out realatively unscathed from the storm Bird. I hope others fared well also.

 

[jinman]

Well Bird, it looks like the kind of rain we got when our lake flooded finally came your way. We only got 1.1" here in Sunset with a little nickle-sized hail. Now, if you were really a stickler for a level lawn, you could map out the places you need to fill by the puddles of water.

I hope everything survived. Your deck furniture is at least in sight. My chairs like yours floated off and ended up stranded on an island in my lake.

I like how all your neighbors are standing out in their driveways, surveying the "damage" from all that water.

 

[mikim]

just got to work and haven't been out in operations area yet - but the worst of it is just now reaching Houston .. gonna be a bit busy around here today.

 

[RedRocker]

It was a little moist in Lewisville too!

 

[Bird]

I'm not sure just when it ended, since I went to bed shortly after 10 p.m., but this morning I poured another 1.65" of rain out of the gauge, so we got a total of abou 6.7" yesterday. I think the Denton airport only got 5.36", but I don't doubt some areas got 8". You can hardly see a puddle in our yard anymore; it soaks in and/or runs off pretty fast, although it does feel pretty soggy walking around in the yard. I'm just thankful that we didn't have the damage that a lot of places did. It's amazing how greatly the weather can vary within short distances. We're probably less than a mile south of the Denton city limits and the only damage I see so far around us is a lot of smaller limbs down from the huge cottonwood next door.

 

[EddieWalker]

It hit us just after midnight and pretty much raged off and on until 5am. Our rain guage has 3.10 inches in it, but Steph is conviced that we received more then that becasue the guage missed all the sideways rain.

She stayed up most of the night, I went to bed and slept through most of it.

Hope everybody is ok,
Eddie

 

[Bird]

Yeah, there was a fair amount of sideways rain, alright. It's going to be interesting to see how much this raised the levels of Lake Lewisville, Grapevine Lake, and Ray Roberts Lake.

 

[texbaylea]

We caught a small part of it down here. I had 2.2 inches in the rain guage this morning. It came through in the middle of the night and we lost power briefly. No particular damage that I have seen, maybe some dead limbs down.

Vernon

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Bird,
I just had to check out this "frog stranglin" thread ! Glad to hear that you guys are OK, but I dont dare tell Kathleen that there is frog stranglin goin on down in Texas ! She is a frog lover, in our Vt house we must have 200 frogs, stuffed, ceramic, plastic you name it weve got it ! It all started when we bought the place, we were walking around the house and towards the backside of the property we have a low area that is kind of a seasonal pond during the spring months. Well the frogs were making a real racket, so we had to go down to the water to investigate, all you could see were thousands of eyes lookin at us, but they completely shut up soon as they saw us ! Since that day, she is sold on frogs !