Heavy Storms

[Anonymous-0]

Was wondering if anyone one else dealt with those storms from the upper midwest to the east coast power was off from 4:30 until 1 hour ago, have not seen one like this in 10 years since we last had a tornado, rain sure was needed though.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Billy-

Where in NY are you located? I live down in the Southern Tier near Binghamton. We got the first significant rain in over three weeks yesterday where I live, right on the NY/PA border. Some thunder and lightning but generally, a nice, slow soaker. For the past few weeks, the storms have gone all around us and on some occasions, I would see rain line across the road where the storm had stopped travelling. Glad I'm not down in Sullivan or Delaware Counties; those poor folks really got it last week and were forecast to get it again yesterday.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Outside of Troy, N.Y. about 25 miles from Vermont. We got hammered by 2 storms, 3 hours of wind, rain lightning, the strikes were something to see. Winds were real strong, had to be 70-80 MPH and sustained for at least a 1/2 hour, been a long time since one like this took a direct hit on us. We needed the rain though.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Im in central NY. Got a brief shower with no measurable rain in the gauge. It all passed just south of us.

 

[Anonymous-0]

All, I don't know what kind of weather ya'll got, But Here in Central Texas we took what our weather man call a 500 yr rain event. This was Tuesday night. From ...Burnet to Llano to Just S. Of Round Mountian ,Tx. This Super Cell covered + - 350 sq miles, also this rain event dumped 18 in of rain in the Marble Falls area, damage is unbeliveable.
At my place got over 6.5 in of rain. Lost some new fence built last yr. Lots of water in homes, businesses and such, & roads washe out.
The amazeing thing was no loss of live at all out of this event.
Oh well....either too dry or too wet, The latter is a change for us down here. Hope ya'll faired as well as we did.
Later,
John A.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Nothing happening here in central MN. My area has nothing but a few sprinkle the last month. Most people crops that are not irrigated are really suffering. Sounds like Texas has been getting hammered. Maybe the good Lord could give them a break and spread it out the country a bit.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I'm glad to hear that, I know down your way things get a heck of a lot nastier than they do here, that had to be one monster rumbling through. Really not much you can do in preparation, looked like several places around the country had similar storms. Sounds like they tried to catch you guys up on all the rain at once !

I think the worst here was the power outage inconvenience, I've been up well over 24 hours now and am darned tired. Towards the end of the day yesterday, was getting things wrapped up for the day, and you could just hear that classic storm, just marchin it's way in, closer and closer, those are the ones that are the worst, the lighting strikes were just relentless,b and al over the horizon, getting closer very quickly from the first audible ones were heard. It took all day for those thunderheads to form up and boy they did. I knew unlike many isolated ones that have missed us lately, this one was a direct hit. Blew out the glass in my bedroom window, I had to hold a piece of plexi glass to stop most of the water from coming in, 1/2 hour worth of that, saw lots of strikes, kind of ticke me off, being up on a hill, you get a good view of the storms, I could not leave that spot until it let up and the wind changed. Did not hear of anyone getting hurt here either, trees and limbs falling have killed several people in the last few years during storms like this.

 

[Bret4207]

Just got a sprinkle along the St Lawrence. Went through the "Micro-burst" back in '94-'95. That was enough tornado weather for me.

 

[Walt Davies]

I have 300 bales on the ground right now with a crew standing by but that stupid weatherman missed the rain fall by 6 hours. I thought I had all morning to get it in but when i got up at 6:00 this morning it was sprinkling out there.
Boy you just can't win sometimes.
I had to use three balers to get the last field baled. First the bolt that holds the free wheeling device on the PTO came out and is lying somewhere in the field along with one spring and one pin. next the wire baler ran out with only the las small three rows in the center of the field to finish about 8 bales. Well I finished it up with the IH 46 twine baler. Now its raining BUMMER,

Walt

 

[Anonymous-0]

My place in in Delaware County, NY...We lost a few of my neighbors in the flood the evening of the 19th. Really amazing the damage that happened. Haven't been up there in a couple days, 'cause I'm working in NYC, but I'm anxiuos to get up there tomorrow night to see if anything else got pounded last night.

 

[Howard H.]

Hey John A. -

You need to figure out how to bottle it up and send it back up here to the panhandle - about 1 inch at a time! ha...

Glad to hear the damage wasn't too severe...

Howard

 

[barnrat]

I live in western NY and been dry as a bone for about a week now and no rain in sight.

 

[JK-NY]

I'm south of Syracuse , we had a good strong thunderstorm about 3:30 pm that lasted 20-30 minutes . Strong winds but not enough to do any damage here. Some areas around here were out of power but ours stayed on.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Two weeks here...and rain in sight.

To our north, east, south, and even friggin' west but we have some bubble over our town -- every single system has broken to the north or south by a town. At least one of the buggers reformed a few miles to the east and began raining again!

 

[jiskies2]

hey Billy- i'm about 1 1/2 hrs sw of you in east durham. don't think we got more than a tenth of an inch wed-thurs and even mowed some hay this afternoon

jeff

 

[jiskies2]

hey Billy- i'm about 1 1/2 hrs sw of you in east durham. don't think we got more than a tenth of an inch wed-thurs and even mowed some hay this afternoon

jeff

 

[Anonymous-0]

Howard, I know what you mean, There are just too many times when a 1 inch drink of water is just whaat the Dr. ordered for a persons place.
Hope Ya'lls wheat did well. The pics from the other day sure looked good. Ya'll take care catch you after a while.
Later,
John A.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Sounds like the rain is needed elsewhere in the state as well, it has been dry, which is a change from the last several years of too much rain, we've been getting rain about once a week to 2 weeks it seems.

Unfortunately, and very sad to learn of this news, just north of here a 17 year old was struck and killed by lightning, along the river, near the tie down piers.


I looked around yesterday, quite a few trees & limbs damgaged, chainsaw will get a workout this week. The fields we have that have been let overgrown had young birch trees in them, a young forest, damage was worse close to the bottom of the valley, many bent over, the woods look like a real mess now, top of the ridge, about 650 feet above sea level, a few limbs is all, I thought that being the high ground would have been where the most damage was. Apparently this was the hardest hit area, we're all due sometime, and I guess that is one way to find all the weak limbs, funny how all the dead elms, are still standing with nothing fallen below.