Nearby homes flattened. circulation is back. Back to the safe room. Bleep.

Oh, thank goodness. I was just saying we need a check in thread.

Stay safe, everyone. If anyone suffers even a tiny bit from this, just holler in whatever way you can and we'll rally help, whatever is needed.

Crap, crap, crap.

Diane

I made it home safely, but four of my nine tomatoes are nothing but stems. Oddly, my rain gauge had nothing at all in it. We either had hail with no rain or the birds or squirrels got after my tomatoes.

Good to hear Paula is okay. Talked to my sister, Diana, and she told me the tornado had gone in the direction of Paula's street. I imagine Dawn will be hiding out for a while since her county has now been issued a tornado warning.

I think it's mostly gone east of me (Warr Acres), but those of you to the east are still in the path. From the radar on television it appears they are travelling nearly due east and extend practically the entire north-south length of the state. If you are in the eastern part of the state you need to be sure to keep an eye on developments.

Debra

We're good here. It is all mostly going south of us.

We are good here in Midwest City. Got some rain, some hail, have not checked on the garden yet, but it missed us by a few miles.

I'm keeping an eye on it here in southern Cherokee County.

Charlie

We're back and safe. More later.

We're fine. Lots of hail, straight-line wind in the 50s, some funnel clouds, some touchdowns, some damage to structures, trees, power lines, etc. and up to baseball-sized hail, but NOT at our house.

I believe our only damage that I have found is some tree limbs down.

Yellow Cat, who was a feral wild thing for 10 years and then retired to our house to live out his retirement years sleeping in a house and eating canned cat food, is a great storm cat. He sat on top of the tornado shelter and storm-spotted with me. When he felt threatened, he took himself down into the tornado shelter alone and then screamed for me to join him. He is great in the tornado shelter as long as you don't try to close the door! (I closed it anyway so he had to sit in my lap then and cry like a baby. I opened the door and he was fine.) We both survived our quiet, dark time in the tornado shelter together.

One advantage of being a member of the volunteer fire dept. is that you have your county radio and can listen to all the emergency personnel and storm spotters, so I always knew exactly where every funnel cloud was and where the hail was falling. Even if they didn't report their location on the radio, I knew the voices so knew where they were! The bad part of that, of course, is they are our friends and it made me nervous to hear them say things like "this funnel is coming down right on top of me".

All in all, Love County came through it all fine. We're mostly rural so the countryside may be torn up, but not many homes were.

Dawn

Small squall line with some intense red centers on the radar moving into western edge of Love County, so I think we're likely to head back to the tornado shelter in a second, just as soon as the first storm spotter out west hollers "Go!". Marietta and Thackerville just opened the storm cellars back up again and spotters are positioning themselves north and west of town.

Dangerous activity continues in Bryan and Marshall County.

New Severe T-storm Warning. Bye bye!

Dawn

Susan okay - tracked North and South of me, as they usually do. Of course, there is always that element of anxiety.

Susan

I've been watching the tornadic storm that started in Norman all the way along I-40 into Arkansas. The storm spotters for the Tulsa stations got some amazing pictures of the tornados. Lots of damage all the way across the state. I certainly hope everyone is okay and am feeling guilty because we dodged the bullet here on Grand Lake with storms going north and south of us.

They're now saying another round could be cranking up tonight. Keep your heads down everyone and stay safe.

Marcy

The second line passed through with hail that was from pea-sized (at our house) to quarter-sized (2 miles north of us).

It is quiet here and currently nothing on the radar near us but we remain under a tornado watch until midnight. During this last round, a large tree fell on a house near McGeehee's Catfish Restaurant but no injuries reported.

Glad it is over.

I was in Tulsa, and waited till the rain just about quit before driving home. Channel 4 is reporting 4 people died.

Only got almost 2/10 of an inch of rain here at home.

Gotta go, want to see the news tonight.

Moni

I'm SO glad Paula (and everyone else) is ok...I really worried when I heard how bad things were down her way...we went to "Code Black Level 2" at Baptist Hospital...moved all of the patients out into the hallways, pulled out the flashlights "just in case", etc., etc. Our director's brother took a hit at his home east of Norman and that really fueled my concern for Paula. I'm thankful we saw no hail or damage here in The Village...hardly any rain, it looks like, too :( But...you know this is just another typical spring day in Oklahoma...and it'll all be back!

Sleep well, all,

Sharon

Here in southern Cherokee Counnty, Large hail here, beat my garden pretty bad, strawberries beat to pieces, some tomato plants beat up, don't have to worry about my onions anymore or my lettuce beds.

Charlie

Charlie,

Sorry to hear about all the damage. It is so distressing to lose nice garden plants to storm damage, but the most important thing is that you're OK.

Dawn

I hadn't been around the computer much this evening and didn't realize all the bad weather many of you were having. Glad to see many have checked in and are fine. Gardens can be replanted. I've had to start over before. But like Dawn said most veggies are tougher than we realize. I wouldn't panic yet if you received damage. Hope all the bad weather has moved out for tonight for all of you. Jay

I'm good too. I got home just as soon as the rain started. I listened to the reports, but my area was pretty good. When everything passed, I ran out and planted four more datura/angel's trumpets garnered from the plant swap. I still have a few more plants to go.... :)

I'm glad everyone is doing well!

Lisa

Glad to see so many checking in safely!

Nothing much here but normal rain/wind/very small hail. All's quiet now.

Diane

All is good here in southern Logan County. Everything was building up fast and looking very ominous and the wind was ferocious just as I made it home from work. I was putting chairs in the storm shelter when a little downburst of rain and small hail started and I thought 'uh oh, here we go.' Our kiddos (son, DIL, grandkids) were on the way to our house to ride it out in the shelter. But thankfully as fast as it blew up, it blew over, and we didn't have to actually use it. We've been watching the news coverage all evening. Areas around Norman, Choctaw, and Tecumseh took some major hits. Lots of damage, not just from tornadoes and wind, but also huge hail. The film footage on channel 9 from Mason Dunn in his helicopter was amazing ... he's either an awfully good pilot or had an Angel watching over him or both, because a tornado was actually forming right over him as he was filming. Just incredible to watch!

Suzie

I haven't been here in a long time, but wanted to check in, as we drove from Tahlequah to Dallas tonight. We got off to a late start, which turned out to be a good thing as we were heading down 69 in between the storms that passed through Atoka and Durant. What a light show! The lightning was spectacular.

I'm worried now about our place in Tahlequah.

I hope it's okay. Sorry to hear about all the damage. DH's sister and father and family in Moore had softball size hail, damaging their brand new roof and 3 of their cars.

Sally

We received a call, around 8 PM from friends who were concerned for us, as the weather maps showed very severe weather in the Tahlequah area. Apparently the worst was to the South and West of Tahlequah. I have to look around outside, but I believe we escaped serious damage here, just to the North. I have to trust someone to wake me, if something really serious happens, as I'd probably sleep through a tornado... at least until it was too late.

George
Tahlequah, OK

So glad to hear you all are safe. Gardens in the scheme of things aren't as important as homes and you and your families lives.

My area of sw Missouri dodged this one. We had lots of wind and that was about it. I was worried for my poor half peach tree but I think it survived this time.

Keeping my fingers crossed for the rest of the storm season for everyone.

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