Iowa Storms

Storms are fun. Now don't get me wrong the kind that don't cause damage or harm are the fun ones. Tonight just as we were getting the kids in the tub the sirens went off. Great. There goes the early bedtime for the Willis kids. We all got our shoes and headed down to the "tornado closet." All evening the sky was showing God's amazing artwork. Not much came out of tonight's storm in our area. I guess some pigs an hour from us lost their roof on their building but that is about it.

Friday night we got A LOT of rain in one hour. We needed a new rain gauge - it's an Iowa thing to have one. It is the first question our of many people's mouth if they new you got rain. It was never reported in weathercasts in STL. Due to the error of someone that mowed the lawn last year our rain gauge was no longer holding water. Jason and the kids bought a new one. I was quite embarassed by its HUGENESS. In my mind, I picture a old guy with no teeth standing next to it, but I can see how much we got from my window. Friday we got a little less than 2 inches in 1 hour. Now that's a lot of water.

Our neighbors had a lot of water sitting in their yard. The storm sewer got back-up.

We had wind blasts that were strong. It ripped off our playhouse cover. Notice in the back the river running through the backyards - that isn't usually there. That's a lot of water.

In the front yard, there was so much water that it was running OVER the curb. Do you remember a couple years ago when Jason was driving through this with his truck?