jdmidwest Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 I was jolted to life last night about 1 am when the NOAA weather station belched out a tornado warning with a path about 3 miles north of us as the crow flies. Stepped outside and watched the show. Nice light show put on by the lightening just to the north of us. Neighbor bugged out with his kids and wife in jammies and pillows in a mini van as I watched. My kid and stepkid both calling to report sirens going off in town, wishing me well out in the sticks. Storm front hit about 1:45 with a roaring wind. Tucked back inside and watched it from the kitchen window. Trees bowed pretty good and we sustained a good inline wind followed by a nice pouring rain. Skyline had a nice backlight from the lightening show and cloud layers were clearly visible, no funnels. Wind subsided and I retired back to bed with over 1 hour less of sleep to face a Monday. Today, around 9, we had a drizzling rain. I noticed when I put the wipers on, a muddy water formed on the sides where the rain gathered from the wipers. Seems like the rain had alot of dirt and sediment mixed into it, probably something gathered up in the front as it came thru and precipitated out as muddy rain. Talked to a friend about 1 hour NW of me and he reported the same muddy discharge over cars in his area too. It looked like my truck had spent a day on a dusty gravel road and a small sprinkle had spotted it up. Yet, when I parked it this morning, it had been scoured clean by the torrential downfall last night. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Trav Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Same here....was glad I keep my boat in the garage... "May success follow your every cast." - Trav P. Johnson
flytyer57 Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 According to the news at KSPR, that mud came from Texas. Got picked up in a dust storm and the jet stream carried that dust all the way here. The rains we got brought it down. Seen that once before up in Wisconsin. Supposedly the same thing happened with some dust storm in New Mexico. There's a fine line between fishing and sitting there looking stupid.
exiledguide Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 According to the news at KSPR, that mud came from Texas. Got picked up in a dust storm and the jet stream carried that dust all the way here. The rains we got brought it down. Seen that once before up in Wisconsin. Supposedly the same thing happened with some dust storm in New Mexico. My sister in law called early this morning and said they had a bad storm over by Lake Springfield that had left mud on the north side of house porch . Jan told her that it probably was dust as we had had our house and yard covered with mud rain from Oklahoma a few years back when we lived in Benton AR and there was no heavy rain at the end so I got to clean it up.
denjac Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 We had the mud rain here in Joplin also. Dennis Boothe Joplin Mo. For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." ~ Winston Churchill ~
FishinCricket Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 STILL scrubbing it off of the cars on our lot here in Lebanon... Sure don't make it any easier to show one.... (The GMC/Buick/Cadillac lot at the 127 exit on I-44) cricket.c21.com
flytyer57 Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 STILL scrubbing it off of the cars on our lot here in Lebanon... Sure don't make it any easier to show one.... (The GMC/Buick/Cadillac lot at the 127 exit on I-44) Why show a car with the showroom floor look. Show them as the way they look after people buy them so they know exactly what they're buying. There's a fine line between fishing and sitting there looking stupid.
FishinCricket Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 Why show a car with the showroom floor look. Show them as the way they look after people buy them so they know exactly what they're buying. Wow, you must be a salesman, eh? cricket.c21.com
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