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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWill someone please stop doing rain dances in Oklahoma!
I am so tired of the rain. Before today we only needed about 1/4" of rain to set a new all time record for the rainiest month in Oklahoma City. I think that we can say that the record is officially blown. It has been raining for only about half an hour and my backyard is already flooded, a good portion of my front yard is flooded. The vacant lot next door is flooded. At some point I will need to turn on the pump to pump out my crawl space.
Rain chances for tomorrow is 90%, 60% for Monday, 40% for Tuesday and Weds. The first day in the forecast for no rain might be next Sunday.
Please send out prayers to the sun god to return to Oklahoma!
yellowdogintexas
(22,274 posts)We have had the rainiest April in years and are running headlong to the rainiest May... now considering the serious drought we have been in and how low the lakes had gotten, this has been more or less a good thing.
We are now getting your storm in FW and I know when I look out at my yard there will be standing water.
I think the rain dances are going on in California and the rain gods have been asleep so long they have no sense of direction
update: I just looked at the radar and we are in for a long and very wet night. This thing runs all the way from Oklahoma to the border and is moving roughly south to north on the animated radar instead of west to east.
avebury
(10,952 posts)Oklahoma City is having really bad flooding right now.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I have a good friend in Dallas area, been watching those storms and tornadoes for weeks now, and cannot believe how much rain can center itself in that area going day after day after day.
Really glad if it breaks the drought, but no sense in filling up the rivers if it is just gonna flood away.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)we've had a lot of red flag days this spring. No where near as bad a California but we could really use a nice solid rain.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)I think they must have visited North Florida for the last several years - we still have very high ground water from the two years of constant rain in 2013 and 2014. It's good they moved on - we didn't need any more for a while, though we could use a bit of rain for the grass to green back up.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)I was going to say, we (Californians) would give anything to have your precip!!!
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)there was a huge inland sea stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. Around 75 million years ago I believe. [URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)But CO2 levels were extremely high and there were no ice caps at either end. Imagine an earth without ice caps.
Seriously. When Australia and India were connected to Antarctica dinosaurs lived there! There are the fossils to prove it.
sakabatou
(42,176 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)The flooding has been really bad in OKC from the news I watched.
avebury
(10,952 posts)round to come in to the OKC metro area in the next couple of hours. There was a small tornado near Blue, Oklahoma (east of Durant) not too long ago.