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Might as well have hail. Just one more extreme!

Are these fires close to Broken bow?? My son says they are some where around there...

Dave and Pat, keeping you in my thoughts and prayers and hoping for lots of rain. Please keep safe. I am so saddened to think of all the loss around you.

There may have been, I was more worried about the one outside of town. If you want to look up Haskell OK on a map, it is about half-way between Tulsa and Muskogee.

Thank you, Tamara...and all the rest of you who're keeping us in your thoughts.
The sad thing besides the fire damage is the damage the drought has done. Reservoirs are drying up, water quality is getting poor, wells are going dry...Ranchers are selling off their cattle because their ponds have dried up. We stocked 2 ponds 2 years ago with fish...1 pond is totally dry now.
The wheat farmers may not have crops this year, and lots of trees and all sorts of plants will surely die. This is just awful.

The fire yesterday burnt dozens of bales of hay, hay is already in short supply, so this is even worst.

Dave , Pat you now have another extreme you are under Thundersorm and Toronado warnings from just south of Moore covers 18 counties until 10:00 pm. We have T'storms and hail warnings here. Hope you as well as us get enough rain to do some good without the hail and Tornados. Praying for you here in Texas.
Jimmy

I think our Tornado watch is good until 8:00 PM.

Had a few drops of rain coming home from work today, and it is making a lot of noise outside.

Hope you get a lot more drops all together and nothing else last the night and tomorrow.
Jimmy

I hope we get a inch or two, I would like to fire up the BBQ grill.

So much for our rain and thunderstorms what little rain we got lasted one minute. Saw a little lightening had very high winds blowing roofs off buildings and whipping the fires around. Hope you faired better. We are still under Tornado watch.
Jimmy

It rained most of the night ans it still is raining a little, it started about 1 am. I hadn't heard thunder in so long I forgot what it sounded like.

Muskogee did get a some hail. Haven't seem the weather report to know how much we got.

We had thunder last week, Tuesday or Wednesday, but no rain! This morning around 4, I think, we woke up to a gentle rain. What a great sound! We got all of 2 tenths of an inch...not enough to do much of anything, but welcome, anyway!

We had vertical wind shear snap ten or fifteen telephone poles in a row off at The Hermitage and set fire to the fields. It also knocked out power to 3/4 of the town of Hermitage, TN where I lived.power went off at my house about 10 times, knocking my computer out, but luckily not bad,.

I heard there were tornadoes in Arkansas and possibly elsewhere yesterday...I didn't hear how bad the damage was.
Even though there was some rain in much of Oklahoma this week, we're still at red flag fire danger level everywhere but Tulsa and east...

I got tired of the power failures I bought a UPS (Battery Backup) for mine, I have the firewall, modem, switch, and my PC on it.

The power here goes out often, usually no more than a few seconds, just enough to mess up the clocks.

We got some more rain late last night, and it is raining right now. I don't know how much we have gotten but any rain is good!!

YOu have got to be kidding, Pat. It was cloudy earlier, and even smelled like rain, but it's sunny and 80 degrees now. Not a hint of rain.
I have a feeling it could be next fall before they lift the burn ban...so much for firing up your grill.

ugh... well, pat got rain dave didn't maybe the whole state needs rain? that's what i'm praying for anyway...

I was surprized by the rain myself, we did have about a 40% chance, so I didn't worry about it to much.

We may be getting some more rain this evening, we have Tornado warnings. We are right on the edge, it is moving over Tulsa right now. Tulsa is getting nickel sized hail.

For those that are not familar with Tornados, they move NE and the tornado is normally on the S corner of the storm. So that puts us in a bad spot the storm will pass by on the north side of town.

So it may be a stormy night.

Also:

According to a local OKC television station, KOCO Channel 5, Altus AFB is being evacuated, due to a wildfire. Power to the base has been turned off. That's all that is being reported as of now.

If it ain't one thing it's another!!!