We are getting that tonight, though it has been blowing 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph, all day. We are supposed to get 4-6" of rain over the next 12 hrs. with gusts to 60 mph and pretty much the entire state of Mississippi is under a flash flood warning.

Yikes, that sounds like a whole lot of rain!

By the weekend we will have some whopping winds and rains. Hopefully this tropical storm will not hit us directly.

Hopefully not, for sure!

Wow! That sure is one late comer for the season on your side of the Pacific, KD! Hope it will not hit you directly, take care!

Winter is coming (sooner or later) !

Weedwhacker said:Must be the "gales of November" !! (should be a really nice day for deer hunting....)

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 40 years ago last week. OMG I AM getting old.

We had that weather a few days ago - gusts up to 60 here. Blew over 30 feet of my neighbor's 7 foot wooden fence.

Weedwhacker said:Winter is coming (sooner or later) !

LMAO - those not from Michigan probably do not and cannot fully understand.
I loved Da Yoopers - particularly Second Week of Deer Camp.

drdawg said:We are getting that tonight, though it has been blowing 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph, all day. We are supposed to get 4-6" of rain over the next 12 hrs. with gusts to 60 mph and pretty much the entire state of Mississippi is under a flash flood warning.

We got that over the past few days - over 2 inches of rain (finally) in the past day. Good luck Ken.

DavidLMO said:
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 40 years ago last week. OMG I AM getting old.

We had that weather a few days ago - gusts up to 60 here. Blew over 30 feet of my neighbor's 7 foot wooden fence.

It also amazes me that it can be that long ago...

David, you may be the only one here (or at least a very select few) that "get' the Yooper cartoon! (Say "ya" to da UP, eh?)

Weedwhacker said:
David, you may be the only one here (or at least a very select few) that "get' the Yooper cartoon! (Say "ya" to da UP, eh?)

Ya. I do. And ya I do say eh to nother Yooper. Eh ya hosehead?

[Peeps are scratching their heads saying WT? are these two talking about!!]

Up at 1:20 this morning with tornado sirens wailing. It has been raining cats and dogs all night and still is pounding us. The rain gauge says 6.25". At least the damaging storms/winds have passed (I hope).

I promised a lady I would get her orchids shipped out today but I may have to break that promise. The forecast is for heavy rain to continue all morning and if I can't get the plants inside for packing and out for pickup by 10:30, I will have missed my opportunity.

That's an awful lot of rain to come down in a short time period, Ken! (I think you would be completely justified if you aren't able to get those plants mailed out )

David --

Besides, two of the plants are terrestrials and are still outside. Talk about soaking wet. I don't like to ship sloppy-wet plants.

6.25 inches - yikes.

How much rain have you been getting, David? They were showing flooding in MO on the Weather Channel this morning

Only about 2 inches or so here in NW MO. Good thing it was slow. We needed it so bad. They got a lot more down South and in the SE part of the state due to the way the weather pattern came thru. Of course with flooding of the Missouri & Mississippi rivers, it is what happens North of us that is far more important.

Weedwhacker said:Hold onto your hats... we're supposed to have 50 mph winds tomorrow! (and something like 1.5 inches of rain... but at least it isn't snow!! )

Oh oh.

Well, we definitely didn't get that much rain, and I don't know if the wind speed lived up to the predictions but it has been really windy out today; we're at least half a mile away as the crow flies and i can hear L. Michigan roaring! (but the temp was around 50 all last night and today -- winter is getting shorter by the day here!)

Rained all night and has rained all day, moderately heavy with flash flood watch up and flood advisories in effect until 4 pm. We had about 15 inches of rain so far this month. Apart from a few sunny mornings its been raining continuously for a week. This area of rain is forecast to move Northwest up the island chain, give some heavy rain to Oahu and Kauai over the weekend and then come back to us on Monday and Tuesday.
The one bright spot is the temperature which is near 70f.
We have to put up with this to maintain our reputation of living in a rain forest.

This was our back yard about 2 weeks ago during the last rain storm.