Rain,, About time!

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First measurable rain amount for me this year. According to our local news, we are almost 5" below normal for the year.

So far I am at just over 1/2", not much, but very needed here. More on the way.

Also had our 1st Tornado warning, yet unconfirmed officially, S.W. of Weatherford Texas.

Further West is the biggest wild fire in Texas history, that is what they are saying, probably only since Texas was settled. Last I heard, the largest fire had covered over 140 sq miles. A pipe cutter started that one. 8 others burning, all out of control as of today.

Here we are drying out and you poor guy's up North are flooding.
 
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Yeah, we got 1 1/4 inches one day last week. It was much needed. Seems all the rain & storms miss us and and start up in Louisiana and move east. They've had some really bad storms. We can do without the storms but sure need the rain.

The little bit of rain we got really got the grass growing. It was green , but now it's growing.

Charlie
 
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Until last night (actually today), I figure I'd gotten about 3.51" of rain for the year. So, yes, I've sure been wishing it would rain. Well, it did. Hail noise woke us at 12:18 a.m. We were getting a downpour, high winds were blowing rain and leaves all the way through a 22" breezeway with 2' eaves on either side, and I thought the hail was going to come through the window here beside the computer. I can see that a large part of one bradford pear tree has broken off and is down in the backyard beside the garden tool storage shed. We're still getting a light rain, so I'll wait for daylight to see how much damage there is.

As the NWS website showed:

?FONT size=3>AT 1218 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CORINTH...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. DESTRUCTIVE WINDS ARE LIKELY GOING TO AFFECT CORINTH AND THE LAKE LEWISVILLE AREA. ANYONE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM IS URGED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY! ?/FONT>

Yep, that's just when it happened.
 
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I was awakened this morning by thunder and accompanying downpour. Went outside and found water puddles 2 inches deep where roof runoff was running next to the foundation.

Now, 15 minutes later, it's not raining a drop and all excess has soaked in..... this is the first measurable rain this year.... I consider I'm in an extreme drought. I don't yet know how much I got...fast in and fast gone.... probably .3 inches.

Bird, sounds like you got the worst of it, hope damage is not serious when the sun comes up.
 
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We arrived in TX. on Friday. Took until yesterday evening to get rain.
Washed first layer of dust off everything.
 
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Wow, you guys are sure on the opposite side of the spectrum from us here. Seems like it rains every other day here.

Hope you all get caught up soon.
 
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The good news? I've been wanting rain, and according to my gauge, I got about 1.58". And I don't see any serious damage or broken glass.

As I said, we got up about 12:18 a.m. to see and hear the storm, then went back to bed. About 2:35 a.m., the phone rang. It was the city's Code Red Emergency Communications Network calling to tell us a phone line was down so the 911 system was not working. My wife went back to bed, but I just stayed up. However, I finally went back to sleep in my recliner and the phone woke me again at 5:30 a.m.; the Code Red folks calling again to say the 911 system had been restored.

And the bad news? The first 2 pictures show what happened to a Bradford Pear tree, the 3rd one shows how leaves are stuck to the siding (as well as being all over the patio, driveways, yard, and street), and the last one shows the damage to the corner of my garden tool storage building.

But I guess we were very lucky compared to places like Waxahachie and Proper in the area.
 

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Well, we got just under 1 1/4"!

We only had a short spell of pea sized hail early on, along with 40-50mph winds, so I figured I wake up to a little debris. Thankfully from I can tell I only got the good part of these storms, no hail damage on the vehicles and the trees look good.

Allot of heavy damage further S and SE of me, appears a twister or two tore up some homes and businesses.

Bird, looks like overall we where fortunate, I wonder how much Jim got? he lives in line with you and me.

It's that time of year, just late getting started in N Texas.

I must have posted as you where Bird, Your winds where allot worse than ours!! The storms sure intensified as they rolled NE. How's the roof on the house??
 
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Bird,
Hopefully that is the case, ours looks good on my "general 1st observation", but I don't (fingers crossed) expect to find much. Appears you had it worse. Looks like the Pear tree will be able to recover.

How big was your hail? My daughter was pulling into work in SE Weatherford while the Tornado sirens where going off, she called to ask "dad" what to do, (hard on an old guy) I told her to run like He## into the building, afterwords, I caller her she was fine, said the hail was like "quarters". Ours where like Peas size to sleet size.

You have a few "new" chores to look forward to, on that front, we where lucky.
 

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