calling any one from missouri

[karenerwin]

Daughter's dog Rudy found a really pretty box turtle today... It locked itself safely in its shell. Rudy didn't try to hurt it.
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That turtle is lucky Rudy found it and not our previous dog! She was bit by a snapping turtle as a puppy and had it out for all turtles after that.

 

[SueT]

Its 48 and raining here...

 

[Gray Farms]

Radio said this morning that southern MO is to get high winds today. 60+ mph it said. Hope everybody has their hatches battened down.

 

[SueT]

It's windy but not that windy...

 

[jthornton]

I think that weather person was standing in front of a fan maybe... pretty calm here in Swamp East Missouri.

JT

 

[SueT]

the clouds just before sunset look like pink whipped cream

 

[SueT]

Suddenly severe storm warning.....we are watching it pass just south of us. Several counties, including ours, are under a tornado watch.
So, @Gray Farms was right, 60 mph winds across areas of SW MO right now.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Had hail here!
Scared the hound half to death.

 

[SueT]

We watched that storm system pass south and east of us with constant lightning. It stretched all the way from down in OK to Stockton MO as it moved NE. We had stars overhead, it was surreal. There was another diagonal line of storms north and west, parallel to the other. We were in between. Did any of you get these storms?

We had a little possum come thru the cat door a couple nights ago. He was trying to get the cat food down near the doorway. We chased him out and I was hoping we scared him enuf to keep him away.
But last night around 1 a.m. I heard noises, got up, and he was on the kitchen table! I went to the other room and grabbed a pair of welders gloves we use for the woodstove. He was still on the table (eating apples) when I returned. I grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and he immediately played possum but his tail was wrapped around a lamp and I had to unwrap it. I should have put him in a cat carrier while he was paralyzed, but I threw him out the door. I'll have to set a trap. This possum is very small, half the size of our cats.

 

[jthornton]

Once a critter finds a food source it will keep coming back until you give it a new Zip code or as the Missouri Conservation Department recommends kill and bury.

JT