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What a storm!

MamaWick — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:46:58 GMT

Wow! Wow! Wow!

After 8 emergency warnings on my phone, I finally turned it off at 1:49am. PapaWick's phone kept blaring, but he didn't count them and erased them before I could count. All seems okay at our place except some in-ground flat solar lights washing away, and septic alarm (it's okay this morning). Reports of 6 and even 10 inch rain gauges overflowing.

Schools are closed in our county. Lots of flooding in the area.

Hope all my Texas peeps in this path are okay.

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GoneButNotForgotten — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:49:34 GMT

I like the midwest but I'd never want to live in Hurricane Alley.

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KingstonsMom — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:52:22 GMT

@MamaWick

Wow! that's WICKED!

You, Mr. Wick and the herd stay safe!

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riley1 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:05:43 GMT

@MamaWick Glad you and the Mr. are okay. Hope your forest friends are okay as well. Stay safe!

Btw, don't you just love that alarm for the septic system.

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KingstonsMom — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:20:03 GMT

@GoneButNotForgotten wrote:
I like the midwest but I'd never want to live in Hurricane Alley.

@GoneButNotForgotten

No you don't, I'm in SE coastal GA, Savannah, and hurricanes are so, so scary.

By the grace of God I've through too many of them.

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spiderw — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:21:14 GMT

It is so scary and dangerous when these horrible storms hit. I am glad you are well and safe and feel bad for all who are experiencing flooding. In my state we have had some storms recently which caused a lot of flooding, add in tornadoes too.

The weather has definitely changed in my lifetime and not for the best. Between the threat of unheard of tornadoes in my area, strong damaging winds and flooding, it is stressful . I'll leave it at that.

Hope our woodland friends are ok , so many of them suffer and pass from these storms and fires.

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luvzchiz — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:21:32 GMT

@MamaWick Hope the Wick family is safe. Where do the deer hide during storms?

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PARedbird — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:24:00 GMT

We got slammed here last night, Mamawick, but not nearly as bad as you did! I'm in far north S.A.

Some districts closed here as well. What I will never understand are these idiots that insist in driving thru the blocked off areas due to the massive road flooding and then they have to be rescued!!

I hope all the deer are okay!!

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golding76 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:25:56 GMT

MamaWick,

So glad you have emerged from this with minimal losses.

This sort of deluge is unusual in your part of the world, isn't it?

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PamfromCT — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:09:34 GMT

What a blessing that each and every Wick, human and forest creature, have survived and doing well.

It is so frightening when bad storms hit. Makes us realize how little we can control sometimes.

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BlueFinch — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:28:59 GMT

@MamaWick I wondered about you when I saw the radar looking really concerning. South central of you, we fared better, but still had serious flooding and rescues. I had 4 3/4" of rain in about 2 hours. Buckets of rain falling, so it had to run off (if it could), or pool. Mine pooled.

I was pacing watching the rising water in my yard. It actually flooded my driveway and some was coming under my garage doors. Thankfully the rain stopped, just in time.

Glad to see the sun peeking through now and the coming cool front will be a nice change for the weekend. Glad you guys and your herd are okay up there.

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sceniccoast — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 20:26:12 GMT

@MamaWick

So sorry to learn this. Those da*n never leaving storms! I'm glad you both made out ok, but there's always others that are in danger's path.

Please take good care.

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hatetoiron — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 20:34:21 GMT

So relieved for all of you that were in the path of the storm

came thru with minimal damage.

Hope the forest critters fared well.

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Shelbelle — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 20:43:45 GMT

My friends live in San Marcos in an over 55 Community, hope all is well for everyone there.

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ECBG — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:53:25 GMT

Hot hits cold and there we gooooooooo!

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Texasmouse — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 02:15:43 GMT

Wasn't it something? The thunder kept me up for a while, then we lost power for about 30 seconds, just long enough to have to reset all the clocks. Grrrr...

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Spurt — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:31:56 GMT

@MamaWick wrote:
Wow! Wow! Wow!

After 8 emergency warnings on my phone, I finally turned it off at 1:49am. PapaWick's phone kept blaring, but he didn't count them and erased them before I could count. All seems okay at our place except some in-ground flat solar lights washing away, and septic alarm (it's okay this morning). Reports of 6 and even 10 inch rain gauges overflowing.

Schools are closed in our county. Lots of flooding in the area.

Hope all my Texas peeps in this path are okay.

@MamaWick

Quite a storm....oh the lightning!!! I was glad the power stayed on in our area!!! Glad you and Papa Wick are safe!!! I hope the deer friends found shelter...

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croemer — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 04:56:56 GMT

It was scary at our house with heavy rain, lightning, thunder. I had 2 dogs on my head last night...they were so scared.

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77yangya — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:55:52 GMT

This is the same thing that destroyed everything in our basement and caused the whole town to be under three feet of water.

Ten Gs in damage and climbing.....

We got almost 10 inches of rain in a couple of hours.

We are in the NY metro area too....

How many were trapped in the subway systems.

STILL have nightmares about it almost every night....

Caused by Hurricane Ida...

HOPE everyone is safe from the picture you posted.