Was up early this morning - and took these pictures of Howard Johnson's truck and tree.
He lives on the corner of Adams and Cedar. I think the house actually faces Cedar, but the street that is blocked by the tree is Adams, between Cedar and Pine.
Ouch!!!! :( :'(
Did he ever pick the wrong spot to park. I lost one big tree limb but it fell in an open area.
Thank you, ace photographer, for the pictures. I knew the wind was bad, but that is a big tree.
Does anyone know how much rain we have had since midnight?
as of mid-morning, it was reported we had 3 inches.
What just came down in the last couple of hours will, of course, change that total.
I set my rain gauge up at 7pm, by 8:45 pm I had 2.13 inches.
heres a pic of the falls from the old bridge in Elk Falls at 6pm.
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r91/okiemon/IMG_4591.jpg)
What a great picture of Elk Falls dam, okiemon!! Thanks for sharing.
at 7:00 Fri. a.m. I had 2 1/2 in. rain in my gauge - at 8:00 p.m. had 4 1/2 in. (it had NOT been emptied). At 7:00 Sat. a.m. had another 3/4 in. for a total of 5 1/4 inches. I have heard of people in different directions having 7+ inches. Whatever the amount, IT IS PLENTY !!! Don't know if it was wind or lightening that got that tree a couple blocks over. Lightening sure brought me up out of bed shortly before they discovered the tree and downed power lines. Great pics.
My husband said that Allen Cummings, who lives west of Howard about say 10 miles, had 8 inches of rain.
The lightning strike was the pole just north of Jerry Wagner's house, across the street from us. It was also hit a couple of years ago when Knut Schaad lived in that house.
I don't know everything it fried in their house, but I assume quit a bit.
We had surge protectors on most everything, except the tv's, so we kind of lost them. We've got sound, no picture. :( Oh, well, we were planning on replacing them soon anyhow, just not this soon! :)
The transformer and the pod ??? were blown. We went to bed close to midnight and Sam Oakleaf and crew were still working on it then. It was fixed by morning.
Rumor time, here - Someone also said there was no electricity out at the lake. ???
Quote from: okiemon on June 01, 2007, 10:22:54 PM
I set my rain gauge up at 7pm, by 8:45 pm I had 2.13 inches.
heres a pic of the falls from the old bridge in Elk Falls at 6pm.
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r91/okiemon/IMG_4591.jpg)
Is this the same view???
I've never seen the river up this high.
Same view, Kevin. I have seen the river up that high and more many, many times. I think what is amazing right now is that we were so dry for so long that we thought we would never get rain. Now, we have all we want. ha ha
Quote from: Mom70x7 on June 02, 2007, 04:13:57 PM
Sam Oakleaf and crew were still working on it then. It was fixed by morning.
I was in Wichita last night and arrived in Howard about 12:00 midnight or a little after. Westar was just leaving east on Washington at that time.
During the first blast of the storm I was giving a 1 1/2 hr. massage. The storm and rain lasted the whole time. When I was done I grabbed my camera and in the down pour, got Ashley, and she and I headed around town and took pictures of ...as she called it..."BIG Water". :)
I will post them on here in several posts.
Our electricity went out, but came right back on.. then it dimmed a few times later on in the 2nd storm that came up, which was about 40 minutes after the first one finished. We had hail and high hard winds in both of them.
Here are 1 from down by Lee and Kaye Howells house on Perry -Michigan.
Then 2 from north Wabash.
Here are some more taken down by Sandy Dunbar's corner on Pennsylvania /Iowa.
And then 2 over on Iowa street by the house that Hatfield's used to live in.
Here is one that was taken on the east side of Michigan street right by the house that Curt Morgan used to live in.( I don't know who lives in there now)
Then the 2 are on the Busby road looking on both sides of Snake creek.
Remember.. this is "a CREEK" not a river... and it was just roaring.
Here is Sam Oakleaf working on the transformer while it was thundering and lightening all over the place. I was standing under Mark's carport with my whole family watching the storm
and zoomed in on him.
( I know I know.. my new camera is just AWESOME" ;) )
Then the last picture is Sam stopped over at the carport and told us all the outages scoop...so I took a quick shot of Sam and Derek ( my youngest)
And we've been discovering damage from that transformer all day: the two tvs, the sump pump in the basement . . . so, yes, it was full of water, which means the furnace, the hot water heater, the whole house water softener ! :(
It appears it melted some circuits somewhere. The breaker box looks good, it's elsewhere that the damage is done.
Oh well . . .
oh - where are my manners! ???
Nice pictures, Teresa! :)
I really like the immediacy of digital cameras!
After seeing the recent photos of Elk River at the Elk Falls bridge, it seems appropriate to post this article here.
from THE HOWARD COUNTY LEDGER, Elk Falls, Kansas Sept. 10, 1874
The engine at Mr. Hull's mill is in position and the mill will be started today. A little more rain and there will be water enough to run the mill and the steam engine will have to lie idle.
What wonderful pictures and wonderful people for taking them and posting them so I can see them. I especially admire the HERO up on the light pole with the storm in the background. We are so lucky to have him. Thank you, Sam. What would Howard do without you?
Howard would be more in the dark than they already are without Sam. Ha Ha
Those pictures are great. I had no idea how much rain we had as I was in Wichita when this all took place.
Mom70X7, I'm so sorry for all the electricity problems, etc. you are having. What a troublesome time for you both.
Quote from: Janet Harrington on June 03, 2007, 08:12:51 AM
Mom70X7, I'm so sorry for all the electricity problems, etc. you are having. What a troublesome time for you both.
Where are MY manners~~ :-[
I am sorry that you all are having so many problems with your electrical equipment. It isn't cheap when things like that happen.
((Buuuut you Do get a bigger TV)) THAT is KOOL. ;D
Me, too, Mom, your problems make the loss of my TV last summer insignificant. BUT, I have a solution that guarantees the rain will stop. I had a rain guage put up this morning where I can see it without going outside. That should make it stop raining.
It must be working.
Hasn't it been a grand last 2 days?
Zowie.....after seeing those pics, I'm grateful we had only about an inch of water seep into the east end of the basement at Harmony. Of course, that's the end where the bathrooms are and of course on Friday I decided to paint the bathroom floors (before the storm hit), so navigating to the bathroom was an interesting experience that night. We spoke with Knute Saturday afternoon and he said storms like that one come around about every six years. I'm holding him to his word on that!
Wilma -
That rain gauge thing might work . . . unless you put it up in the middle of your "pond." :D :D :D
I had it installed on the rail of the front porch where I can see it without having to go outside. My readings won't always be accurate because of the trees on that side, but it will give me an idea of how much rain we get.
That should work :).
So . . . we picked up a television this weekend (some great sales ;)), so Jim can watch his Yankees.
We bring it home - it works! Except that it's in French, only has 6 channels and no remote, so we can't get to the menu feature. We connect it to our VCR, and are able to get all the cable channels. Running it through the VCR also gives us English, thank you very much. But we can no longer tape a program and watch another one. :(
I guess we'll look for some more tvs. :)
Oh - and we have our hot water back, as of late last night.
Hooray ! ! ! :D :D :D
Welcome back to civilized life, Mom. It can be rugged living without the basics, I know. Glad to hear things are improving for you.
QuoteWelcome back to civilized life, Mom
Thanks - I
am glad we didn't have to resort to finding a "privy." :-[
And we finally have English television again. :D Hooray :D
I took these pictures that afternoon and evening. I took pictures of the storm moving in right after I heard it announced on the scanner. A few are also of a full rainbow that was straight east of our house! I meant to get these on here earlier, but I've had my hands full with working 2 new jobs, chasing a toddler, helping Billy hay, and allergy problems!
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CowCrumgirlMama,
Those are beautiful. The colors are awesome. Thank you for posting those. The full rainbow is a delight to see. Thank you again.
Did you notice in the middle picture of the rainbow that it is a double rainbow? The pictures are just gorgeous.
Marvin and I were on our way home from Vinita Okla., via 400. Saw some awesome rainbows. Saw these coming down 99 from Severy and yes, the colors were just so bright and beautiful. might add that around Fredonia also saw numerous funnel clouds - a couple very scary - but none touched the ground. Close enough for me. :o
Wonderful wonderful pictures!
The photography was excellent CCM ( didn't want to type your whole name) :-\
I love it when people share stuff like this..
Simple stuff... but I guess we are a small community of simple people..with simple pleasures.
And I say that with pride!
Isn't my rain guage working good? Not a drop since I put it up.
Yes, Mama. It is working real good.
Quote from: Flo on June 07, 2007, 08:16:07 PM
Marvin and I were on our way home from Vinita Okla., via 400. Saw some awesome rainbows. Saw these coming down 99 from Severy and yes, the colors were just so bright and beautiful. might add that around Fredonia also saw numerous funnel clouds - a couple very scary - but none touched the ground. Close enough for me. :o
Funnel Clouds..
Ye gads.. they scare the daylights out of me.
Kjell has lived with hurricanes all of his life.. but his eyes have been opened when he saw what a tornado does.
He said with hurricanes, you have a chance to button the hatches down and get ready and be prepared to outlast it.
Tornados?
Wham! They hit.. they destroy...they're gone!
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Seeing Sam up on that pole - in that bucket just makes me wonder what goes through his mind every time it storms. How much we all owe to men like him, doing the jobs they do ,while those of us that have the outages just grumble away - and they are out there just daring the storm demons to let them do their jobs.
They all need our "safety prayers" that is for sure. Be Careful, Sam, take care of yourself !!!
:) :) :) :) :) Hi to all you out there.
We are back in town for a few months. Had no idea it had rained that much. It also put water in my basement,messing up hot water hearter and furnace. Of coarse we was out of town working,came home to the water in basement. :' :( :( :( :( >:(. Oh well fixed water heater,got part for furnace. Yes the pictures were great. Web site videos great also. Thanks to all that built them and posted. Later HHJ
Welcome back Henry and Marjean
Welcome back, - you've been missed. :D
Jump right back in with a wish or a story. :D
My new rain guage says 8/10ths this morning. Is that accurate or is it more or less than yours?
Yep. That is what Jim said that our rain gauge had in it and it doesn't sit under a tree. I think your rain gauge did good.