Wow. It's cold, but the sun is shining!

[Eggs4Sale]

Here in Yuma, it's still pouring, the wind is blowing hard to the north, and the rain is slanting in and hitting my windows. The pasture is full of water, the yard is full of water, and branches are starting to fall. The road is pea soup, watery pea soup, and I'm sure someone's going to slide off into the lettuce field before it dries up. The Army base has been closed, the city schools have been closed (county are still open), and many roads and intersections are closed. Our sewer system is not designed to take in more than a gallon a day.

I just looked out the window and saw a branch lying twenty feet from it's tree.

I just looked out again and saw a Eucalyptus branch took out our Saguaro.

 

[rufus]

About those holes in the tin roofing, just put pop rivets in the holes. That plugs them up pretty good.

Rufus

 

[Mahonri]

It seriously feels like all the trees are going to blow over out there.

I closed the windows in the coop and the 7 chickens in the pen are hunkering down on one of the dry roosts.

The run is a MUCKY mess.

I'll bet we have 40-50 MPH winds out there right now. Pretty scary.

As much as we need the moisture, I'm not fond of the extreme hard winds we are experiencing at present, it is just loud outsde.

My BIL got his teeth fixed and headed back north for Salt Lake, I-17 was closed at Camp Verde so he had to go via Las Vegas and that route looked dangerous with LOTS of rain and possible flooding.

Crazy.

 

[LarryPQ]

The DH had an emergency service call up on Camelback mountain. It is all the way up on the top, and I don't like the idea of him trying to get up the switchbacks in his work truck. He has my 4 yr old with him, and I worry to much. The winds are out of control at the house, and I think I need to bring the brooder inside. Anybody want to come over and grab an end? Its mucky, so don't wear heels.

Last time I went out side, there was coop soup. Everyone is packed into the Eggplant, snuggly and warm---buy the chicks are not quite so lucky.

Cheeseballs! **jumps** there went the playhouse, the slide, the doghouse, the chairs, the trailer


HAHAHAHA! The transformers blow pretty often here, but I just watch 3 go...maybe the ones at roadrunner park? really dark over there now. Lighting all the candles for when we lose power too!

DH and DS came home safe. DH helped me tuck in chooks. Bricks on top of the brooder to prevent the "wind sail" effect.

 

[tdgill]

OMG!!!!

stay safe! keep us posted

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

Praying for all the BYCers in the path of this. Stay safe and keep us updated, please, as you can!

 

[Mahonri]

The heavy squall line just went over us. HOLY CRAP!!! We are under a tornado warning right now. A couple of funnel clouds have been spotted down by southmountain. I wouldn't want to live in Scottsdale, Tempe or East Mesa.. it's headed that way and intensifying. Our pool is almost full of water... that's like 5 inches of rain! We've gotten more rain this week than we get during most monsoon seasons. The washes are running like rivers and the rivers are running in torrents. There will be a loss of property up north.

And there is another surge of rain coming!

Interstate 17 has been closed due to rock and mud slides and blizzard conditions up north. I hope the surge I see coming on the radar from the south west stays south of us, it looks extremely intense.

Chicks brooder is under the porch but the porch will soon be wet. I don't know what I'm going to do. I wasn't prepared for THIS MUCH WATER... my front lawn looks like I've irrigated.

Folks from back east wonder what our problem is, Problem is, we aren't used to this and it cramps our style. A couple of large limbs came off my neighbors tree and almost hit the coop. The run is just a mucky mess and the birds look miserable.

YIKES!!!

 

[the Pollo Loco]

yeah that doesn't look good!!!! hang in there, this too shall pass!!!

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

Wow, Mahroni, that looks like it's gonna pass over the whole state!

 

[Mahonri]

Well, I PRAY, the worst is over.

Just spent the last 20 minutes sweeping water off of the back porch. Chicks might make it. Wish I didn't have to work tomorrow, but when I get home at 1PM I'll have plenty of work to do LOTS of cleanup. I imagine we'll spend most of Saturday doing cleaning and such. And the forecast calls for more rain next Tuesday.

Oak Creek in Sedona is flooding and they are evacuating folks next to it... it will crest at 20 feet, there will be some flooded homes.

Tornado warning still in effect for Mesa and Gilbert.

We haven't had winter storms like this since Jan/Feb of 1993. It rained then for weeks...and I didn't have a coop, run, chicks or chickens back then.

New River has received more than 6 inches of rain today. Lots of flooding up there.