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I just came in from checking on Buddy. I feel gritty. Dirt in my teeth, nose, and eyes! 🤧
 
My weather radio started blaring about 2am... and kept it up til daylight. All I got was a shower of rain about 5am. But I got a heck of a lightening show! Finally got to sleep about 6am.

Round 2 starts this afternoon around 3pm. This is the main event!!! I'm sitting in the highest danger zone that can be issued by the weather service. Super cells and long track tornadoes probable... Long track means EF-3's, 4's, and 5's, the big boys!!!!

Might lose a roof or a few shingles with smaller tornadoes... The big ones suck pavement off roads and flatten everything, Fingers crossed!!!
 
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The party is about to start for me, couple more hours. I'm more worried about the storms at the bottom of this pic than the big ones near the top. Those smaller 'spotty' storms will produce super cells! :(

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Those storms are full of tornado warnings! Keep us posted!!
 
@Swing You safe? Looks like you're about to be in the shooting gallery! :(

So far so good for me... the really good news... Getting heavy showers ahead of these super cells. With tornadoes, like hurricanes, Heat = Power. More heat means bigger and stronger storms.

The rain bands ahead of the cells are taking heat out of the atmosphere. Maybe we'll get through this without any monsters!!! Still have nadoes everywhere, just not monsters!
 
Right now there are 4 or 5 tornadoes on the ground in mississippi crossing into alabama. I lost power for about 5 min but it came back on. Gave me time to finish the dishes and toss a load of towels in the washer.

I have a gas stove so I'm having pan fried ribeye steak for dinner with or without power! 😊
Looks like @snappy1 is out of the severe threat! Sure looked pretty rough passing over her town earlier! Be safe @Peanut !!
 
@Swing You safe? Looks like you're about to be in the shooting gallery! :(

So far so good for me... the really good news... Getting heavy showers ahead of these super cells. With tornadoes, like hurricanes, Heat = Power. More heat means bigger and stronger storms.

These rain bands ahead of the cells are taking heat out of the atmosphere. Maybe we'll get through this without any monsters!!! Still have nadoes everywhere, just not monsters!
🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏
 
Dodged a bullet! South of me by 10miles. Just called a friend, tornado missed them by about a mile. They could hear it but it lifted. Lots of trees down near Tuscaloosa but was a lot weaker. Was on the ground for about 100miles then it got to the area where we'd gotten a lot of rain before hand. Took the power out of it!!! The weather people say it first touched down near Hattiesburg MS. First long track tornado of the year.

It's back on the ground now, gonna skirt Birmingham on the NW side of the city. Pictures being posted on social media, maybe an EF2. It's going through one of my plant hunting area's as I type.

There's another one behind this one, following the same track. So my vigil isn't over yet...
 
Also hoping @Jen , @winds-of-change , and our other Oklahomaians check in, really bad fires across the state!!
It was really bad yesterday. Some big fires and the smoke from those fires were seeding new fires beneath them. The wind was hurricane strength.

We had our car packed with things we absolutely had to have in case we had to run. Thankfully we didn't have to leave, but the fire threat is huge for the next week or so.
 
It was really bad yesterday. Some big fires and the smoke from those fires were seeding new fires beneath them. The wind was hurricane strength.

We had our car packed with things we absolutely had to have in case we had to run. Thankfully we didn't have to leave, but the fire threat is huge for the next week or so.
We have a high fire danger here too! Oklahoma just seemed to be covered in fires, GLAD YOU ARE SAFE!!
 
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