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If what is going through here doesn't break up you will be getting some serious rain... Hoping for the best for you...From looking at radar it should just about be to your doorstep...

Winter Storm Warning now......

Oh Boy Dwight, I don't know if I could go thru that any more this year.

Freeze warning in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Tornadoes in the southwest corner of Oklahoma. Tornado watch for most of the state. Hail up to the size of baseballs. Interesting day in Oklahoma.

I have been wining about our weather all spring but now it is better then yours Dwight. Just remember that having to much water is better then a drought even if it comes as snow.

Good luck

Dave, you get any of this? Our power just came back on.

Good ol heavy spring thunderstorms today with temps in the mid 60's. At least they took snow out of tomorrows forecast!

These heavy rains do bring considerable flooding tho. Quite a few river flood warnings out right now.

And round two's front just rolled thru...Saw a couple of trees down on the way to drop boys off at school...Probably got 1/4+ inch of rain in 10 minutes...Radar looks like it is going to set in for awhile now...

I got an inch here in Hurst and maybe the same amt up North.

Wind is howling outside and front is supposed to move in later this morning with severe storms and tornadoes possible. Also hail and flooding. I'll take the rain though.

The storm that is going through here has some pretty serious wind at the front...So you guys in IN had better button your hatches...Rantoul IL had several trees and poles down right in town...

Thanks!

I'm hoping Scott and Fritz will get enough rain to bring their ponds up. They're in Northcentral to Northwest Indiana.

We're sitting at 2 inches in the last 24 hours and it's supposed to rain another 12. My 18" overflow on the big pond is NOT keeping up - the top of the whistle is 6-8 inches underwater and drawing one heck of a whirlpool around it. This might be the day I find out if the emergency runoff area was pitched correctly...it's always looked too high to me. Heck of a way to find out.

Just drove by the house we close on tomorrow and the pond is up atleast 8" if not more...Sounds like the heaviest rain is yet to get here...

Rain just turned to snow here. Whatever Nebraska....

View from my office windows. Shades are down now....

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Go home weather, you're drunk.

Josh and Dwight, you need to buy a bag of bones, some rope,plastic sled, then round up every dog you can and start "The FLorida Iditarod".

River Grove, IL



Elmwood Park, IL



Peoria Speedway, Peoria, IL

Egg, yikes. Be careful what you wish for! Full pool doesn't mean all your fish lift up and swim off.

1 day drought cure. I wonder how much this will lift the lakes?

Wow - hunker down...

I shut down the trout well pump and opened up a second overflow in the trout pond to place it safe. I also pumped down a couple ponds in the back just to be safe as I don't want any ponds breaching their banks.

It's not raining as heavy here but it is steady. At least the wind died down.

I have a large highway construction sign in my garage that blew down out on the highway. Otherwise it was going to hit someone's car or block our drainage ditch. I called and they will pick it up sometime.

Well, we got 3 inches of rain from last night to this morning. I walked down to the big pond and it looks Like it came up a little over 1 ft. We are now 4+ inches above normal in rainfall. We had a hail of a storm just a couple days ago that dropped a quick 1/2" of rain and hail. Today, it's cold and windy. Too cold for Oklahoma this time of year. Freeze Warnings are in affect for almost the whole state.

Had 1 3/8" fall last night and 3/8" today. Most of the rain today came in a 15 minute burst this morning, accompanied by high winds. Power was lost and came back on hours later.

I watched a nice heavy band of rain coming this way only to break apart in the middle and bypass here, reforming together again to the north. Typical of what I've seen in the past few years.....

South side of Chicago had 6+" of rain. Many areas in the suburbs are impassible. I really, really wish that it would have dropped here.

Oh well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the storms tonight to drop a lot of rain here. No large hail or high winds tho....

Weatherman is calling for possible snow tomorrow and here we sit in the mid 70's now.

Oh, yeah. My pond came up 4". Better than nothing!!

A couple of summers ago, I sodded my entire lawn with a zoysia variety that was on the upper end of the $$$ spectrum. It looked so beautiful, but man it was hot that summer, and man it was dry, and man that stuff took a TON of water. I have a well that I can't use anymore for irrigation due to salt intrusion into the aquifer (it will burn up the grass), so I have to use city water and I was getting water bills that curled my toes.

I became obsessed with the weather channel and honest to goodness, every afternoon a lovely rain band would blow through, drop loads of rain but would PART like the red sea around my house and I’d get nothing. It was maddening.

Here’s the funny part – on my way home from work one evening, I was driving through a frog-strangler downpour and when I got close to my house, sure enough – NOTHING! I said outloud – “God, you have got to be kidding me – is this some kind of cruel joke? Why am I not getting any rain!!!???”

Parked the car and it started raining, and raining hard. No wind, no lightening, just heavy rain. It kept raining, and it kept raining. The storm water ditches were filling up to overflow, my yard was like a lake and no let up was in sight. Turned on the weather channel and the reporter was highlighting a particularly strong cell that was directly over my neighborhood, and only my neighborhood! The NWS had issued a flood alert for my neighborhood, and only my neighborhood! It was on the crawler at the bottom of the screen and everything…I could hear the Good Lord chuckling and was thinking “that’s what you get for taunting Him.”

It was a neat experience. We got the rain I was complaining for, but the yard looked like a drowned cat for a couple days!