We got RAIN, then we got RAIN and more RAIN!   This is all wonderful!  My SIL and nephew were out for round one.  It was great, over an inch.  Made for a muddy drive out, but hey!   We were really getting dry.  

Big kids when to their house.  We went to bed.  We woke up and it was lightening in the distance off and on.  The power was also going off and on.  About 2:30 I woke to thunder.  I jump out of bed and pull up the radar.  Scanner is quite and when it FINALLY comes up the rain hits about the same time!  DOWNPOUR of rain!   Still nothing on the scanner so we go back to bed.  My son calls in maybe 5 minutes on the radio wanting to know if I saw the Tornado?  HUH?   "What Tornado?"   "The one that took our roof off"  This all in calm voice.  I ask if he was kidding.  He DOES have a warped sense of humor.  No he assures me he isn't.  They are OK, but could we please come get them.  DH takes the excursion over to get them.  All the trucks are tucked under barns and overhangs everywhere from the earlier storm so they don't have a way over but to walk.  It is POURING.   The water is over half way to their knees in front of their house.  This is near level ground, but getting run off from the hill.  

Did you know the original Star Trek comes on at about 2 AM here?  We didn't either until last night.  We watched it while we calmed down enough to sleep.  This morning clean up started again.  Well, most of it had to wait while we got another .75 of an inch of rain.  Our 24 hour total is over 3 inches. 

For a blow by blow account here is my DIL's blog account: http://bsjonesjourney.blogspot.com/

This extension cord was on the ground between the house and the power line.  See it draped over the line? 

They ONLY lost 5 sheets of plywood, and most of the tin.

If that wasn't enough excitement for one day about 3 my son comes in making sure kids are all inside. ?????   One of the dogs just got rattlesnake bit.  I ask "where"?  On the face?  NO WHERE?  On the NOSE!  NO!! Where did it happen?  OH?  no clue!  We are drawing meds up as we have this disjointed discussion.  Off to give the dog a shot of dex.  We keep it just for these situations.   We both walk the yard, and everywhere around, no snake.  Oh did I mention it is only 54 degrees, and very very wet everywhere?  The 54 was the high for the day at that point.  Finally just give up.  Warn the kids that there is a rattle snake IN the yard and go on with life.   Is the snake in the yard?  We don't know, but we will plan that it is.  Poor puppy seems to be doing well.  I went and took these pics a couple of hours later.  I also took his collar off.  He was wagging his stub tail and wanting out of the barn.    

While I had the camera out I took these pictures of the water around here.  This is out front:

I walked toward the middle pond, which is deep, but yesterday evening had about 6 inches of water in it.  Today it is running over and around.  We have only saw it this deep a couple of times in 11 years.  

I turned and looked back toward the house and took this picture of water still draining into the pond.  The white you can see is the back of the pond at the house. 

Life is never dull around here!  Oh the kids are worried about the snake.  NOT! They are happily playing in the front yard in the mud.  As if we didn't have enough mud I caught T carrying a bucket of water to add to her "lake" she was building.  I nixed that right quick :)