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Our area of West Texas has had no measurable precipitation for January-April 2022. This is the driest start to a year in the record books. We have had rain in the long range forecast for today. As it grew nearer to our rain event, we were told it would likely be severe. The storms are forming and forecasters are predicting up to 4" hailstones and isolated tornadoes.

My go-bag, purse, and computer are in my safest room to ride out the storm. We need the moisture. We just don't want the severe stuff. Now we have to wait to see what develops. The severe weather box is in the lower left corner of our TV screen with warnings to our west.

[4kitties]

Hoping you only get the much needed rain with no damage!

I am in Central Illinois and we had a tornado watch all afternoon yesterday.  Thankfully we only got rain.  Had a lot of wind but no damage.

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@4kitties wrote:

Hoping you only get the much needed rain with no damage!

I am in Central Illinois and we had a tornado watch all afternoon yesterday.  Thankfully we only got rain.  Had a lot of wind but no damage.

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I am glad you escaped the tornadoes. I hope we get lucky, too.

[Love my grandkids]

@On It I will echo 4kitties and say I hope you only get much needed rain and no damage but glad you are so well prepared. Be safe, wishing you well. Please update when it's safe to do so.

[Sooner]

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@On It wrote:

Our area of West Texas has had no measurable precipitation for January-April 2022. This is the driest start to a year in the record books. We have had rain in the long range forecast for today. As it grew nearer to our rain event, we were told it would likely be severe. The storms are forming and forecasters are predicting up to 4" hailstones and isolated tornadoes.

My go-bag, purse, and computer are in my safest room to ride out the storm. We need the moisture. We just don't want the severe stuff. Now we have to wait to see what develops. The severe weather box is in the lower left corner of our TV screen with warnings to our west.

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@On It Us too.  It's coming here too.  All next week will be up and down--as is always especially the first week of May.  I dread it so much and pray a lot.

Last year the hail was awful around here.  Friends of ours had their house beaten to pieces.  Some of her neighbors still don't have replacement windows.  

Good thoughts to you and all of us under the gun. 

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@Love my grandkids Thank you. I will update as soon as the storms finish rolling through. It will be sometime tonight.

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@Sooner Thank you for the good thoughts. This is our only chance for rain this week. We don't want to miss the precipitation, but we would love to dodge the severe stuff. I'll be thinking of you all this week. Hopefully, you will avoid the bad and get the good.

[hckynutjohn]

Weather box is in the corner of our screen more time than not. Think our local channels just like taking up 1/4 of our screen to distort the picture. Guess they think we viewers don't remember what channel we are watching. "Possible heavy rain", really?  

"High winds and possible tornado in the area", I get. Possible rain?  Way overdone around here to suit me.

hckynut  🇺🇸

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@hckynutjohn Your weather box does sound large. Ours is small and really doesn't interfere with viewing. There is a crawl in the corner as well that I cannot read without walking over to the TV. Our weather guys are breaking into the golf tournament about every 15 minutes. A TV station here has to service a large viewing area.

[Kachina624]

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@On It    We desperately need that rain but it appears that it will miss the areas that are burning up as the fires rage on.  The huge one that is near the city of Las Vegas, the original Las Vegas, grew by 30,000 acres just yesterday and is threatening Western foothills communities.  Over 160 homes in that area have been destroyed.  They say it may be months before it's extinguished.

Another fire, near Jemez Springs in the Jemez Mountains and less than an hour from me, has also burned a large area and is threatening the Valles Caldera Nation Preserve and Bandelier National Monument, prehistoric Indian ruins.  The Valles Caldera had a devastating fire 4 or 5 years ago, the results of which made me sick.  Its a beautiful place, a 93,000 acre ranch which the government bought some years ago to preserve it.  The mountain ridges surrounding the caldera are now bare of towering trees.  I like to go there to spot the elk herd.

We had smoke and a burning smell in the Albuquerque area for the first time this morning due to a wind shift.  The smell actually woke me up.

The best part of New Mexico is being destroyed.

The Jemez Fire last night.