Tornado Watch and Flood Warning. for KCMO.

[leftyladyfrommo]

Storms are just the other side of Topeka now.

I think they are mostly worried about heavy rain.

I am worried about my neighbor's tree. It is a soft maple and branches break and come down over my power line. He won't have it trimmed.

[Sherman A1]

1. Good luck

check the flashlight batteries and candles in case the tree branches do come down.

[hatrack]

2. And this is the day our pink dogwood hit full flower . . .

I guess I'd better enjoy it for the next hour or so.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Oh, shoot.

These storms wreck so many of the flowering trees. They have been so pretty this week.

[Yonnie3]

3. Good luck

I live near KCHO and had to scroll back and reread your title.

I have a maple behind the house. The shade is lovely, but its roots have played havoc with the sewer pipes and sidewalk. It drops limbs on the house from time to time.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. People plant soft maples because they grow fast.

But they also break in our thunderstorms.

[hatrack]

6. And they grow with big crotches near the ground . . .

Great place for rot, great place for limbs to split off.

Could be worse, though - could be Bradford Pears.

[imanamerican63]

7. Just a month ago there was a snow storm here!

Thanks for the heads up! Tonight, I could only make it to the Petro in Oak Grove and I have shut down for the night! The clouds are getting pretty dark too!

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Just looked at radar...

The line of storms seems to be taking the old “Tonganoxie split”.

Storm line seems to be weakening into a rain blob. Pretty scary clouds in the Independence area right now, though.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Here she comes.

Raining pretty hard and thunder.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. Shit. The sirens are on. Not mine but close. nt