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What's the weather like where you are?

Cool, cloudy, & rainy this week. If it doesn't rain, it's perfect bike riding weather.

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We had snow between 8 am - noon this morning, and it stuck, though it's melting now. Still, the high isn't expected to get over 36F for the next 24 hours.
 
going to get wet it looks like. Tornadoes forecast around us.
Winds out of the SSW pushing this toward us. I am at the marker.

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well, we survived, some had some tornado activity, but no damage reported so far, but it is very very dark at midnight.

the TV is yelling at us about Talequah and Briggs, Oklahoma have tornadoes reported but no one can see where they are.
 
Mid 40's, cloudy, showers. In the Top 3 of coldest Dutch King's Days ever measured, and it's only 8.10 in the morning yet.
 
rootabaga said:
Meanwhile, at the Mount Washington Observatory, this is what happens when a person challenges a 109 MPH wind...

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And that's on the lower parking lot, about 100-200' below the summit. I was up at the summit a couple years ago in July. 85 at the base, 40ish at the summit. Highest ever recorded wind speed was there and the supposed "worst weather in the world."
 
a few miles west of me, a tornado was reported, but it took an unusual turn to the Southeast for some reason and missed us.
 
lunatic59 said:
What is it with all the hail in recent years? @zuben el genub hope you didn't get too much damage.
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about 4 weeks ago, about 40 miles east of me at Wagoner and Coweta, OK; a hail storm dropped Soft Ball sized stones.
All of the public service vehicles had broken windshields or rear glass if a sedan... Depended on which way the vehicles were parked at the time.

Most of them were parked for the night, the police cars were out patrolling and had to try to find cover, but most of them ended up with broken windshields.

http://www.newson6.com/story/25137972/threat-of-hail-damaging-winds-and-tornadoes-across-oklahoma
 
I experienced softball size hail back in 91. It killed many trees. Broke every widow in my house and came through my roof in a number of places. It did over $11,000 dollars damage to my wife's $12,000 Oldsmobile. It only struck my street and a bit of the two streets running parallel for about two blocks long. The area looked like a war zone.
 
lunatic59 said:
What is it with all the hail in recent years? @zuben el genub hope you didn't get too much damage.
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It got some plants. We had another vicious one about 20 years ago that got the skylight and the roof.
They can get spotty. The plows were called out in some areas. 2 blocks over, just small hail.

I suppose the scam roofers will be combing the area soon.
 
Mother Nature can set us back into the Reality Zone real quick.
A friend of mine posted just yesterday on Facebook about his trials with floods.
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This is his story: 5/26/2016
One year ago today my home was deluged by a flood... 10 days after that, my closest sister died. Eight months later, on the Friday before Halloween, my home flooded again. On the night after Thanksgiving, my younger sister (my financial ward) died. All of this, was layered over my already somewhat extraordinary and supremely complicated life.

Thanks to all of you for listening and tolerating my recovery images. I adore the staff at AJB. Recovering from a flood is like archaeology. (Except it is your own stuff.) It is impossible to recover everything, and what you manage to reconstruct is woefully incomplete. It poses more questions than answers. It is work... beyond your wildest comprehension. Long after the Red Cross, Samaritans Purse and the Amish Disaster Relief leave...

Then we flooded again. there was no relief whatsoever the second time... we were on our own...

The IRS requires that you save your tax return documents for 7 years. In a flood, document loss is a real issue. These... are my tax return documents for about the last ten years. They are finally dry... but they have solidified into "solid bricks" of pulp. I cannot shred them. I cannot throw them away.

With summer coming on, I am planning a bonfire/cookout/all-day gumbo-fest where I burn these. It will take all day. My neighbors will hate me because they will have to wash their cars. Maybe I'll buy them car wash tickets... we'll see.

It has to go!


 
zuben el genub said:
It got some plants. We had another vicious one about 20 years ago that got the skylight and the roof.
They can get spotty. The plows were called out in some areas. 2 blocks over, just small hail.

I suppose the scam roofers will be combing the area soon.
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The roofers here are in Full Tilt rush to win the prize....
I am sure a lot of them are scammers. Our newspaper published a full in-depth report on how to vet the roofer before you sign the contract, and give them the "up front money".....

If they have not had Classified Ads for several years, find a different one to work with.
The problem has been exacerbated by the fact that the losses are so great, the "good roofing companies" are now back logged 3 and 4 months.

the scammers get the up front money, and then they are gone.
 
zuben el genub said:
It got some plants. We had another vicious one about 20 years ago that got the skylight and the roof.
They can get spotty. The plows were called out in some areas. 2 blocks over, just small hail.

I suppose the scam roofers will be combing the area soon.
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Yup. Construction roaches.

We had a nasty hail storm two years ago and while I didn't see any obvious damage other than the shredded foliage, some of my neighbors had their roofs inspected and found they did in fact warrant replacing. So, instead of calling a roofer, I called my insurance company who sent out their own adjuster to see and HE was the one who told us to get it replaced. We went with a reputable local company and they did the job for less than the insurance check. :)

Of course it didn't stop the scammers and shady fly-by-nights who circled the area for over a year before moving on.
 
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