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Ohio

Hope you Circleville guys faired ok in the storm, I seen where some tornado's touched down Atwood lake, (about 3 hrs from me). Right now I'm keeping my fingers crossed and looks like I might get lucky that it doesnt hit me to hard, seems like the storm is staying on one side of I70 and Im hoping it stays on that side!!

6/17/2009 7:17:23 PM

Ohio

wow!, just checked intellicast.com (weather) and it looks like NY and all the neighboring states is getting hammered with storms. Looks like its heading right into RI, ,,,PROTECT YOUR PLANTS AS BEST YOU CAN! Good luck guys!

6/17/2009 7:23:02 PM

Ohio

OK last post,,,, looks like the entire United States is getting its share of rain or storms,,,,,, looks like Ohio is in for some rain for a while,,dayum!

6/17/2009 7:26:06 PM

Ham Lake, Minnesota

The southern part of Minnesota is just blossoming with the first severe stuff of the year right now....

6/17/2009 8:37:28 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

There's ropes of clouds just springing into existance and aimed at us today. One came head on (10 mi wide and 120 mi long!)

Our bad weather like this is usually the first two weeks of May, what gives??? Let the vines get big enough to be a PITA to cover THEN the weather???

Sigh. Gonna be a long year. So far a lot of others elsewhere have had it a lot worse than me, so good luck everyone.

6/17/2009 9:05:28 PM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

Brooks, we got nailed hard here in NY

6/17/2009 9:22:55 PM

Ohio

Just got hit by one 15 minutes ago Tom, steady hard down pour with blistering wind, thunder and lightning, Im half afraid to go out and look at my plants to see the damage,,lol

6/17/2009 10:10:27 PM

Columbus,ohio

We got some down pours, and my 350 gal tank is almost full. No thunderstorms tho.

6/17/2009 10:10:43 PM

Minerva,ohio

yow! Im so glad i left the plastic up on my hoops for one more day, rain all day but this eve we got some pretty heavy rain thank goodness for my lack of energy today or the plastic would have been in the shed and not protecting the kins. Wow Brooks a tornado At Atwood Lake???? Yikes!!!!! thats only about 35 miles south of us, whew !Hope everyone is ok, and hoping the best for your patch Brooks.

6/17/2009 11:48:53 PM

[email protected]

Might be time to build an arc.

6/18/2009 12:33:21 AM

Ohio

went out last night at about 2am to check the patch after the 2 hr downpour , wind and rain,,, even with the wind breaks I had up I still got hammered hard, lost a bunch of leaves on the mains of a bunch of plants, dirt washed completly out frm under some of my plants with nothing but roots showing. I got my work cut out for me getting my patch back in order,,, sucks!.,lol

6/18/2009 6:24:12 AM

Ohio

sorry about running off the mouth in the post,, but its my day off today, so its ether bore you with a post or be out in the patch sinking in 4 feet of mud,,,HA!,
Weird thing about all the damage I received from the storms last night, is the plants that wasn't protected from the wind compared to the plants that had practically the wind protecting force fields around them, the unprotected ones is the ones that faird the best,,lol.

50 % of my plants where hit really hard,,, the most damage I have ever received from a storm before. But all I can do is go with it, and laugh about it I guess. I always put that in the back of my mind at the start of every growing season, that there is ''ALWAYS'' going to be a few bads to deal with growing these pumpkins, always. The bad will happen every year you can count on that,,, LOL.

When I think back to last year and how Tom Bohicas plants where just about destroyed, where almost every leaf was gone off his plants and how he came back like he did, it kinda puts your mind at ease on how these plants will always bounce back.

again sorry for rambling, on and on and on,,,LOL

6/18/2009 7:10:34 AM

Honesdale, Pennsylvania

The heavy rains are digging trenches at my new patch site. Thank goodness my plants are SO small that there is limited plant damage.

6/18/2009 7:36:27 AM

Pataskala,OH

Tommoro we will have worse storms get ready.

6/18/2009 7:51:28 AM

Berlin,mi.([email protected])

I GOT 3.23 inches of rain at my place yesterday. We only had two nights this month that stayed above 50 deg. My plants are the smallest i have ever had at this time of year.

6/18/2009 11:32:11 AM

Ohio

Steve, here is what we got hit with

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/525190.html?nav=515

6/18/2009 6:45:12 PM

Dresden, Ohio

We missed that one here in Dresden, but we've got one coming now. Get ready Ohio!

6/19/2009 7:51:12 AM