One Bad Storm After Another

[Dee]

Well, we've been wanting rain for almost 3 years. Now, we're more than 6 inches above normal rainfall for the year. Right now the weather man on Amarillo news is breaking in every few minutes to tell small towns when to take cover.

All the ranch/oil field roads are either washed out, or under water. Today is the first day in several days that the Amarillo fire dept hasn't had to do any "water rescues", and I'm told I've got about 1 hour before torrential rain with 3" to baseball size hail possible gets here.

BUT! For the first time in years, cows are belly deep in grass. A good thing if they don't all drown.

[Dee]

Marble size hail and man is it ever raining.

[DDZ]

I heard parts of taxes even got golf ball sized hail.

[Dee]

Thursday Pampa Texas got golf ball size hail but no rain. This storm gave us 1 1/2" in 30 minutes.

[Ranger99]

Just missed the golf ball ice balls by
a few miles here
A good bit of quarter sized hail and
hard cold rain. Not sure what all might be
damaged. Thankfully no glass broken out
of the house or vehicles.
Looks like 6-8 + tomatoes knocked off.
Need a few days to see if the plants survive.
A couple of wrist sized limbs came off
the big oak in the front. 
Lots of lightning and some of the loudest
earth shaking thunder I've heard the last
couple of days
Stupid pinhead border jumpers out riding
ATV'S and dirt bikes up and down the streets
with lightning flashing every which way
Oh well.  . . .

[Dee]

Well we already know them border jumpers are fair swimmers.

[Ranger99]

Should have also added that although I
haven't heard of it,  I'm sure somebody
drove through the several low spots where
high water always runs deep over the road
during every heavy rain.
Been signs up for years and years, and they
always announce the high water hazards
every time, but it never does any good

[Ranger99]

Well we already know them border jumpers are fair swimmers.

HaHa not really ( thankfully)

Most all I see on the "news " get
ferried across by the cartel smugglers
with rafts and tubes and inflated
garbage bags

[Lloyd Smale]

man its bad when hail could kill a guy!

[ironglow]

  We had a period where things got quite dry, and some of the grass was showing brown around the edges..but now we have had an almost continuous "soaker" since Monday. No chance of flooding..just a soaker.

[Ranger99]

man its bad when hail could kill a guy!

In some of the places west of here where
I used to be able to hunt, there's baseball
sized hail a lot, and it's been bad enough to
total out vehicles and extensively damage
buildings.  Pretty much totaled out a lease
member's RV at the deer lease with all the
aluminum exterior panels and large glass
windows

[Dee]

Here we go again. Pingpong size hail, some golf ball, the rest marble size with heavy rain.

[Ranger99]

Haven't spent as much time in the
PH as in other regions
Seems like every time I've spent some
time around there it's a constant wind
and bad storms that seem to follow the
Canadian and the Red, almost like a
highway.  Textbook hail magnet, that
and western IH20

[Dee]

Perryton TX to the north of me took a direct hit a few days ago with 3 killed and much of the town wiped out including downtown.
Day before yesterday the storm that came through here developed a tornado just south of us and killed 4 in Matador TX and pretty much wiped that entire town of about 600 out.
A not too bad thunderstorm hit here about daylight this morning with a bigger one behind it.
Grass is better than I've ever seen it, but ranch roads everywhere are washed out. Oil companies are having trouble getting to wells to service them.
Old guys that grew up here can't remember this much weather this far into summer.

[Lloyd Smale]

we've had just thge opposite problem it hasnt rained in 3 weeks. my whole lawn is burnt. i had the brilliance to fertilize it after the last rain and its been sunny and hot since i did it. most all of the little starting apples peaches pear and cherrys have fell on the ground. there calling for rain this weekend but its to late for me

[Ranger99]

One headed this way now
Got really dark about 10 minutes
ago. Big thunder to the west
No wind or rain yet

[gypsyman]

Week ago yesterday, the 15th., we had a couple tornado's go thru here in the Toledo area. Both followed the lake shore. Point Place, small community bordering Michigan, Toledo and Lake Erie got slammed. Millions in tree damage, baseball size hail with house windows and cars broken or dented. Thank God, no fatalities.  A lot of that area did not get power back till Tuesday-Wednesday. Went over to a friends house that Friday, he lives right on Lake Erie, and spent a couple hours cleaning up his place. I live about 2 miles south of him, only lost power for about 3 hrs. that Thursday evening. I could have sat outside smoking a cigar and not got wet thru the whole thing. God smiled on me that day!!

[Dee]

Here we go again. About 30 minutes out, with rain and hail. Weather special today says El Nino is responsible and we could get rain all summer, and heavier snows this winter.