Glad you weathered things okay, Decrepit, and didn't end up in Oz!

Oh-oh . . . Winter Storm Warning here. We drop below freezing and stay there until sometime Sunday. One to three inches of ice is expected. Last time this happened, back in 2009, I was without power for 5-6 days. I was younger then (duh!), and survived relatively unscathed except for losing two trees. Also, neighbors let me stay in their generator-heated house while they visited relatives who didn't lose power. Those neighbors are long gone. Hopefully, this won't be anywhere close to as bad as it was back in 2009. We shall see, I reckon. <crosses fingers>

Unless something unexpected happens later today, my local area seems to have gotten off easy, winter storm wise. Road icing and closed institutions/businesses seems about the extent of it. Neither my brother nor I lost power. I set out trash yesterday for today's pickup. I don't think it happened. I braved the weather only long enough to check mail (nothing) and bring in the garbage container. Thankfully, other than mail checks, I don't need to leave the house until Monday at the soonest. Which is fine by me

Whew, glad your power's up!

One thing I do miss from my old home was hearing the sound of the rain and wind hitting the metal roof and making that soothing thunderstorm sound. First thunderstorm I heard in the new house I could barely hear it.

My hearing is at the point where I almost never hear rain/wind on the roof, no matter how intense. I was therefore quite surprised yesterday morning when I heard faint muffled sounds of what must have been sleet hitting the roof from maybe 30min prior to 0500 breakfast until a bit after its end. Oddly, a look out the living room window showed only moderate downfall. I at first assumed the sound was part of a YouTube video I was watching at the time, as my PC's audio equalizer is set to slope high frequencies upward to an extent likely considered alarming to those with decent hearing. Not that it helps all that much. But no, the video ended. The sound did not.

Wheeeeeeeeeeee . . .

This has been a rough week, weather wise. Severe storm threats Monday thru Wednesday evening. The last of those threats did a good bit of damage. Luckily, the atmosphere in my immediate area was stable enough that the front did not generate its damaging storms until just after it passed my town, headed east.

Thursday and yesterday were supposed to be safe, with little more than rains forecast for yesterday evening.

Shut down the computer last night around 2000. Retired to the sofa to read awhile before donning CPAP gear. I'd not read long when the town's warning sirens sounded. Turned on the living room TV to KAIT. Was greeted with live coverage of a weather emergency in progress. Tornado on the ground. Large hail. Damaging winds. My town was within the emergency area. The storm almost on top of us.

Pulled on a pair of jeans, to have wallet and keys on me. Exchanged house-slippers to more rugged footwear. Stuck in my teeth. Hoped for the best. (My house has no "tornado safe spot".) Thankfully, the storm's core passed just enough to our north to spare us the worst of the damage. We did get a lengthy, heavy hail pounding. Once the storm was comfortably east, I braved the outdoors to check the car for windshield/body damage. All's well on that front. I couldn't check the roof until this morning. I 'think' it's OK, but need better visibility to know for sure. (The sky remains overcast.)

I've not yet found a post of KAIT's stellar-as-usual storm coverage on YouTube. I did, however, find a record of real-time coverage from a non-local source unfamiliar to me. It begins not long after I turned on the TV. My town is seen within the emergency area.

(video) Live Storm Coverage, evening of 15 April 2022, Northeast AR (video)

Another storm outridden at Decrepit's!


Good to know you were spared yet again

Glad you made it through this one okay, Decrepit.

I have enjoyed them since childhood, but at my now retirement home, they can get a bit intense and (wind) damaging. Lost the wind chimes to just a medium one a few days ago.

We might be somewhat off-the-hook. The atmosphere has remained stable enough to lessen the chance of severe storms from the nasty front moving across the region today. <crosses fingers>

It's one of those days.

I was sitting here at the computer, watching a YT video, as my Paperwhite recharged. All of a sudden, I hear the distinct sounds of a thunderstorm. If I can hear a storm, it's gotta be significant. I fired up the living room TV. Local TV didn't have weather coverage of any sort, not even a scrolling bar. I left the TV on and returned to the computer.

Within minutes I hear hail hit the roof. I return to the TV. Nothing. Looked out the living room window. It's raining cats and dogs. I've had enough dogs today, thank you. I returned to the computer and fired up my online weather channel of choice. It showed my town smack in the middle of a severe storm. Then POOF! Electrical outage.

It was short-lived, lasting no more than five-ten minutes. By the time I booted into Windows and again launched my online weather channel, the storm was exiting my town to the east.

Neither PC nor Paperwhite seems damaged. <crosses fingers>

Checking local weather a few minutes ago, I was greeting with a Red Flag Warning in effect from 1300 until 2000 today. Don't recall ever seeing that before. Here's what it means:

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM CDT THURSDAY FOR
STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY...AND LOW FUEL MOISTURE FOR
PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...

The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a Red Flag
Warning, which is in effect from 1 PM to 8 PM CDT Thursday.

* WIND...20 foot winds between 12 to 20 mph.

* HUMIDITY...relative humidity values below 25 percent.

* 10 HOUR FUEL MOISTURE...10 percent or less

* IMPACTS...any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of
strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can
contribute to extreme fire behavior.

We have those conditions all the time out here in the desert. Fortunately, rocks don't burn and we gotz no treez.