Tornado sirens just stopped.
Missus checked in okay.
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Glad to hear you’re okay…
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Exactly. Scary. We haven’t had a warning like that before. Burn bans and high fire risk but never extreme.
A storm moved in around 3am. Which was odd, bc I didn’t see any sign of that in the forecast. Noticed this morning severe thunderstorm watch didn’t come out until maybe 30 minutes before the thunder woke me.
Hopefully that rain helped. Although at 6am there wasn’t much damp left. Seemed much more like a desert thunderstorm than the ones we usually get. Fierce, fast, heavy rain for just a bit, and then gone. With the rain evaporating quickly.
We get the fast and fierce but usually a good soak once that part has moved on.
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I hope so, too! I hate these super low humidity days coupled with windy conditions because someone always does something stupid and fires break out.
A couple of weeks of late winter storms just dumped a lot of rain and snow in the Sierra Nevadas and our local SoCal mountains! Maybe they’re coming your way? I see that New Mexico got much needed snow and that first storm is heading across Northern Texas and there’s one in Las Cruces and El Paso that may hit closer to your area. 
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Probably too far north, but some rain would be good. We really need one of those slow soakers.
I’m not a weather person, but the storm we had last night may have been the strong storm thingy @Wayward and @mindysan33 mentioned getting itself together a bit further west than the models. The same long string of storms hitting @Axolotl with scary weather too.
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A very dense fog.
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This morning, an even denser fog. Surprisingly dense.
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Over here on the east side of ATL, we got some thunderstorms last night, but nothing too bad. We didn’t even lose power. I think the really bad stuff happened well west of GA…
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Two days ago, it was 70°. Today, I woke up to snow on the ground.
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Sounds like a Michigan Spring 
Typing of Michigan Springs…
Tree damaged by ice storm on Detroit’s Lower East Side - 3 Mar 1976
I was 9 years old and at school when the lights went out. We quietly left our classrooms (it was amazing how subdued we kids were in our suddenly dark school), gathered our belongings and carefully! went home. The trees wore coats of thick, heavy ice, like everything else. Walking home was beyond treacherous: sidewalks and streets were like glass. It was scary! I saw twigs, then small branches already succumbing to gravity under the weight of the ice as I gingerly made my way along, wishing I were already home. The large branches later fell, and eventually some whole trees.
Detroit was locked in an icy grip and vast swathes of the City and environs were without power.
Our neighborhood was blacked out; curiously, Grandma’s house (just a mile away) still had power. She was out of town on a long trip, so we happily stayed there. We took everything outta our fridge and its freezer, grabbed some stuff outta the cupboards, packed up a buncha clothes and sundries and left.
The fallen trees demanded an unusual route. It was a frightening drive: the whole time, all around us parts of trees were falling.
The blackout in many places - inc our neighborhood - lasted around a week. We were most grateful there was a nearby place to which we could fairly easily escape, and it was a real trip watching the local news. O_O
Flooding in Detroit: Lower East Side, corner of Ashland and Korte - 25 Apr 1976
1976 was a hell of a year in Detroit, meteorologically typing. We’d had that horrid ice storm only the previous month!
I was still 9 at that point, and do vaguely recall a huge, scary-despite-having-grown-out-of-being-afraid-of-storms-and-had-come-to-enjoy-them, noisy storm with freakishly heavy rain.
Schools and businesses closed on the Lower East Side, near Lake St Clair. We were more than a mile north of the lake and our block was probably swimmable. Even areas well north of us were very badly flooded. I don’t remember whether places on the Detroit River were similarly affected, but they musta been.
When the waters finally receded, everyone naturally had to throw away their basements’ entire contents. It was surreal - everybody’s cellars were suddenly out on the curbs, these cairns of all sorts of stuff. 
Oh, and note the AMC Gremlin, car fans!
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All good here after yesterday’s “severe weather event” but a lot of damage and some deaths in the central and southern part of Alabama. Mississippi was hit hard too.
The thing about potentially tornadic storms is how hyperlocal they can be. 50-60 mph winds for a few minutes less than 5 miles from here while it maxed out around 30 here.
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And then when a tornado does touch down it may take out a half-dozen houses and leave everything else intact
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It’s so damn weird, the way they’ll destroy every home on a block/in an entire neighborhood but one.
(edited b/c tyop)
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Glad to hear all is well with you. Just saw a video of a news report covering the aftermath in several states. 
The comments on the video were mostly folks venting about 
supporters, agencies being dismantled, and warning victims not to expect help. Lack of empathy for others is part of how we got here, along with people having very short memories about who supports them or ignores them when they need help. SMH
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Here in St. Louis, our house lost power from Friday night through Sunday afternoon. No other damage. The church at the end of the street lost a little siding.
My parents have a generator, so we hung out there most of the weekend. (Their side of the street is still without electricity otherwise.)
A sickly tree in their backyard lost a couple of major limbs but they just fell where they were. But elsewhere in their neighborhood, a house got speared by a tree thrown by a tornado, a woman was electrocuted by downed power lines in her backyard, and along a nearby creek a lot of trees were thrown around and a few roofs lost.
Friday before the storm it was 82F, Sunday morning it was 34 and there was a light dusting of snow. Today’s high will be 70, but snow is forecast again for Thursday.
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Oh wow! Glad you’re safe! But you guys got hit pretty bad… 
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all roads (all two of them) in and out of the Keys are shut down since 4pm Tuesday. big fire out of control in the Everglades outflow on the Miami-Dade side. has also shut down our internet and telly. thank goodness for 5g mobile!
we are in a serious drought, having received only 2+ inches so far this year. should be more like five.
Title:
Large brush fire shuts down Card Sound Road in far south Miami-Dade
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(Sent from Local10 News - WPLG)
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this affects all of the islands from here to Key West.
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Stay safe out there, KBJ!
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