our local tv stations were on for over 62 hours with wall-to-wall coverage and I don't think they ever had less than 6 polygons going at one time and that was just inside our broadcast area of halfway to Jonesboro to halfway to Jackson, Tn and the edge of Mississippi down to Tunica. They went to regular broadcasting yesterday morning and thought it would be calm until last night but alarms were going off and they were back on air in 1.5 hours. We have had a brief respite today. The sun even came out for a short time, but to our deterrent, it just heated the temps back up. Lower temps is what kept the tornado count down yesterday even though we had several clouds with rotation, especially at night.

We have street flooding and were told not to leave our homes. They got out with pump trucks this morning while it was calm and pumped the worst of the water out of the streets but they are saying that we have at least 5 more inches today and tomorrow. And. More. Tornados. I am so tired and I know everyone else is too, especially the weather people. One station's weather people couldn't even leave because of the flooding. They would just take turns taking short naps in their offices and be back on air, for three days straight. They finally went back to regular broadcasting in the wee hours of the morning and I hope with the reprieve that they got to go home and get a shower and sleep. Hopefully, for them someone else can take the helm this afternoon and on.

Our daughter made a picture of a tornado that just popped suddenly and was coming right at her house just hundreds of yards away. They took cover and didn't see or hear anything but a bad storm. Other people behind it said it just went back up in the clouds but caused lots of intense lightning, rain and wind. All of our rentals are in danger of flooding, it has been up to their doors and any traffic would have sent it through the houses, but they aren't the only ones. One reason we are not to leave our houses. Praying that the levees hold the river since it is getting so much flooding from north of us.

We have been told that if we can sleep to sleep in our street clothes with shoes nearby and have our ID in our pockets as well as an emergency bag We have had so many weather alarms and sirens going off that when I do drift off I hear them even when they are not there. If I am doing anything in the kitchen that makes any kind of noise I hear them and have to stop. Sometimes it is real, sometimes it is not. I will probably be hearing weather radios and sirens going off for weeks to come. This is the fourth weekend in a row that we have had this type of weather but this time it started on Wednesday and will last through the weekend. packed in case we have to be rescued by boat.

Sorry, Diddn't mean to get so wordy, just stream of consciousness and nerves.