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Don't have any pics really as the front was pretty nasty. We had one come in at about 1:30 today, first a bunch of dust in the air, than trash and thunder rumbling in the distance. Suddenly the wife tells me the bunny cage was kniocked over so I get to run around with trees coming down and branches everywhere saving my daughters rabbits, they rode out the storm in the bathtub. When it was all said and done we got about 1.75 inches of rain in 30 minutes and had trees go down everywere with one laying across a fence. Got enough of it taken apart that the cows can't walk out but I know my job tomorrow. 1) Fix the chain saws 2) Remove Hackberry tree. 3) clean up Silver maples scattered across farm. Fun day but the rain is a much needed thing. Could deal with out the wind that lifted dog food bowls out of the kennels and dropped them in the yard.. I have a piece of plywood in the yard... Trying to figure out how it got there.
 
Did you check under the plywood, there may still be a construction worker hanging onto it. :D

Hope you don't have too much damage.
 
Well, just got a report that we had another tree down at the other house, riped out of the ground by the wind. Same front brought 80 mph winds down to St. Louis. I believe it Never seen wind like that for an extended period of time. Shear gusts at the front of a wall cloud but nothing like this... When the wood dries and the ground is good and wet they are going to see this fire from space.

Got another .2 inches of rain this morning.. The millet field is really greening up, the question is how much is millet and how much is weed... Going to have to spray that sucker.
 
Glad you are safe. Sorry for the wind but glad you got rain. We haven't had a drop here in NW Iowa for so long.Some fields are showing stress. Did you have any crop damage with the wind?
 
There is some down corn but not a lot.. I am very, very surprised be this because usually these wind storms means acres and acres of down corn...

Just was surveying the damage at the old house.. window blowin in on the barn, a couple trees topped and about 1000 apples laying on ground from the orchard. ..

We were curling pretty bad last week Feeder but we had .8 inches of rain here (As much as 4 inches 20 miles to the south) and that bought us some time. This storm probably gave us enough rain to get an okay crop assuming it doesn't get to damaged from the storm. My Dad and Grandfather have land over in Shennedoah (Southwest Iowa) and the reports out of there are after a really good spring the corn is really starting to curl something bad. Haven't spoken to them since than and probably won't for a week or so as grandpa is impossible to talk to on the phone (Scream to might be a better description) and dad is out of the country. Always interesting getting reports out of other areas.


Everything sure looks greener today but we really need more sometime in the next week. 1.75 sounds great but when you are working from a 7 inch deficiet it is just a start. With our luck it will rain all fall so we won't be able to get the stalks baled :roll: God, that would not be good... Millet is really greening up :D
 

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