Texas Storms

Ugh!!! I am so OVER these storms. I'm in south Dallas county, but it seems like at least half the state is flooded.... And the tornadoes: I've lost count of them all. About 50 minutes ago, while trying to fall asleep, I heard suspicious winds. So I checked it out. Yup, rotation overhead!! Less than ten minutes later, a tornado warning was issued. Aaaaaand, now I can't sleep....

I had to dig a trench through my back yard because it was flooding, it had taken all it could. I had to also pump four inches of water out of my koi pond from one afternoon and its not a small pond. It has really been coming down.

Woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of my phone freaking out due to emergency alerts (which I cannot opt out of -.-) and the tornado siren going off down the road. After that quieted down, it was the thunder and lightning keeping me up. This whole time my husband was sleeping like a baby, of course (he's also slept through every earthquake out here that's happened at night).

Been a weird year here for weather and natural disasters, hasn't it?

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Originally Posted by Daigga

(which I cannot opt out of -.-)

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Its in your settings unless there are other warnings you want to receive.

I was up most of the night with two chicken-bulls shaking at every crack of thunder.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

Its in your settings unless there are other warnings you want to receive.

I was up most of the night with two chicken-bulls shaking at every crack of thunder.

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I've already turned them all off in settings so at least it doesn't give me every warning across the metroplex, but I can't turn off alerts for my immediate area or amber alerts. I'm trying to mess with the weather app settings now (it's a galaxy s5, btw).

My dogs defense mechanism to the thunder is to sit on my head. I guess that's where he feels safest, but a 40 pound furball attempting to sit on you isn't my favorite way to wake up.

I have the S5 too. I use The Weather Channel app. Under setting you can select your alerts. I had the same issue waking me up but it was my S5, Gear S, and my and my wife's Nokia 980 all going off with alerts. It was crazy. I turned them off on the Nokia, reduced them on the S5, and muted my Gear S. Im a heavy sleeper too and actually slept through a tornado once but all the device going off was enough to wake me up.

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Originally Posted by Daigga

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My dogs defense mechanism to the thunder is to sit on my head. I guess that's where he feels safest, but a 40 pound furball attempting to sit on you isn't my favorite way to wake up.

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Yup, I've got an 80 and 60 pounder on top of me panting and drooling heavyily for 6-10 hrs at a time. I'm going many days with little to zero sleep. This has been going on average every 3 out of 5 days for the past 2 months or more out here in East Texas. :taz:

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Down here in louisiana flooding is just part of life! I used to think i would do anything to get out of this humid hell...but after working up north I would not change louisiana for anything, i guess i am just southern born and breed but i love everything from the humidity to the alligators...i mean were else can you walk down the road and be at multiple huge waterways to fish or just sightsee.

If I ever left Texas, which I don't see happening, Louisiana sure would be at the top of the list! Great country and great folks! :)

If you love wildlife...esp. reptiles louisiana has it all!!! No polar bears tho....