Flood Watch

By DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
United States
May 18, 2026 4:36am CST
It is thundering to beat the band here right now but it isn't raining/storming yet. I'm kinda hoping it doesn't storm/rain today. I guess we'll see... I do have my bedroom curtains open so I can watch the lightning zig-zag across what little sky I can see. I live in Missouri where there is a flood watch (Dark Green) on the map. The two lighter green streaks (one in Kansas to the West of Missouri and one in the Northern part of Missouri) aren't close to my area. (It normally doesn't flood where I live. I live on a plateau at the edge of the Ozark Mountains.) Screenshot is mine
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (52776)
• Mojave, California
8h
i am done, nonsense in play. Do your thing but be safe.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
I hope your area isn't in drought conditions there. Good luck!
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (52776)
• Mojave, California
1h
@DaddyEvil Its actually not to bad but it goes quick here. Once the rainy season is done, this place can go sideways usually does go to extreme conditions. I still wonder how the older generations survived this land. No civil society should live in a land this harsh. But its so pretty, probably how it went too.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
1h
@crossbones27 Oh, I see... We don't have a rainy season and a dry season. We get rain all year round here. A few years ago we had a bad drought here and the grass and trees all turned brown and the leaves fell off the trees. It wasn't until the next spring that it rained again. The brown grass turned to dust before it started raining.
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Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (55923)
• Canada
8h
Stay safe today DE, I hope that you are spared terrible flooding right at your home. We are under a heat warning, with the temperature set to rise to 30C today.
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Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (55923)
• Canada
2h
@DaddyEvil They are calling for rain on Wednesday I believe. There is a nice breeze today, which is totally making the weather tolerable. I wasn't ready for this so soon.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
Thank you. That's the same temp we're supposed to get today and tomorrow here but we have 100% humidity but still no rain yet. Just lots of thunder and lightning. I hope you get some rain soon with that temp. Good luck!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
@Juliaacv We have a 70% chance of storms today and a 90% chance of storms Tuesday and Wednesday. There is a 31 mph/50 km wind today here. (I had to look at the weather map. I haven't been outside today.)
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Amber
@AmbiePam (119410)
• United States
6h
I live in an area that is prone to flooding, but I’ve never had a problem with a flood even when I lived on the bottom floor of my apartment building. I hope you have a great day!
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Amber
@AmbiePam (119410)
• United States
2h
@DaddyEvil Thank you, me too!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
@AmbiePam You're very welcome. If you came over today, Pretty bought some chocolate ice cream and some Vanilla Bean ice cream. I'd share some with you. (The chocolate ice cream is hers but I'd still share some of it with you. )
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
Thank you. Ten years ago we moved from a hilltop to a valley but still in the same city. We haven't been bothered by flooding in either part of the city so far. I hope you get some gentle rain today.
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rakski
@rakski (154441)
• Philippines
7h
I heard the thunder too this afternoon and I thought it was going to rain but it did not
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
We're still getting thunder and lightning but no rain yet 5 hours after I wrote this discussion.
Fleur
@Fleura (34769)
• United Kingdom
8h
Gosh there's a lot going on in that map! Hope you don't get any bad storms.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
8h
The US is a big place. I'm hoping we don't see any tornados this weekend. There's a possibility of some so you never know.
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Michael Duff
@Wrexxo (1182)
•
7h
You are lucky it doesn't flood where you live. I just hope it doesn't flood anywhere
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
Thank you. I hate seeing floods anywhere. Hopefully, we all just get enough rain to keep the grass and trees here nice and green.
rebelann1949
@rebelann (117088)
• El Paso, Texas
4h
At least you get rain, here we're under a fire watch due to the dry air and heat. Thankfully we have at least 25% humidity right now but with the winds due to kick up that'll be drastically reduced. Hey, we could have a giant bon fire ..... thing is there ain't no trees in the desert so that bon fire would have to be in the suburbs where no one wants to see one.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
We have 100% humidity this morning but still no rain. We do have lots of thunder and lightning, though. I'd let you have a few trees if you want them. The back of our yard is a small forest. True, I wouldn't want a bon fire here right now even with the rain we get. The Mark Twain National Forest is very dry and that isn't too far away from where I live.
Four Walls
@FourWalls (86000)
• United States
3h
They were talking about the deluge during the tornado warning coverage in Omaha last night. Hard to get that much rain during a drought situation, because the ground gets hard and it runs off instead of getting absorbed.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
My area has been getting rain/storms while the surrounding areas haven't. Everything is still lush and green here while an hour North or South of us are turning brown from lack of rain.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (134561)
• Marion, Ohio
4h
Hope you just had a nice show and no rain
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
We're still getting thunder and lightning but no rain yet. My area isn't in a drought but other parts of the country are... I hope everywhere gets enough rain without floods.
MARILYN
@Marilynda1225 (90588)
• United States
1h
Hope that you don't get flooded there. I also love watching lightening in the sky even though it can be a bit scary at times.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
1h
There is a 70% chance of storms today, and 90% chance of storms tomorrow and Wednesday... It hasn't even sprinkled here so far. We don't worry about flooding here. We're high enough we don't have to worry about it.
Joanie
@Freelanzer (10757)
• Canada
1h
Good for you watching the lightning, I normally just hide from it. Hopefully the storm doesn't get any worse.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
1h
Thank you. It's still thundering and lightning here but 6 hours after I wrote this discussion, it still hasn't started raining yet.
Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (10870)
• United Kingdom
52m
I don’t like the lightning …..
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
47m
I'm not running outside and holding up a metal baseball bat and yelling at the storm to come get me.
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Thelma
@thelme55 (79031)
• Germany
1h
Keep yourself safe. I hope it will not flood in your area.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
1h
Thank you. Still no rain yet even though we still have lightning and thunder. The forecast is still showing rain today through Friday, though.
jaishankar
@Shivram59 (49674)
• India
1h
The nearest river to my town is 10 kms from here. I had seen the river flooded years ago. The overbridge was sunk and broken. Since then I have never seen a flooded river..And even if the river gets flooded, the flood water would not reach here. Our town is atop a hillock. Stay safe.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
49m
Thank you. You stay safe, too.
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jaishankar
@Shivram59 (49674)
• India
Just now
@DaddyEvil Thank you. For many years the river near our town never got flooded. I'm safe, so is our town.
luisadannointed
@luisadannointed (11504)
• Philippines
6h
Hey! You are back. I hope everything is going well with you and your family. The rainy season is waving in our country, and I don't know what the plans of the government are about flood, since there are a lot of evil people who scam the whole country by stealing and faking the flood control projects. I am really praying that God will save us all from those evil politicians and contractors' doing.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
Hello! Yes, I had problems with my eyes again but am back now. Pretty and I are both doing fine, thank you. I hope things go well there without flooding... Politicians can be the worst kind of crooks, in my opinion.
Judy Evans
@JudyEv (380079)
• Rockingham, Australia
5h
Are you part of the 'Mid West' or are you too far east?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
We're in the Central part of the US. My area is considered South Central. Just South of us are the Ozark Mountains. And yes, we're also called Mid West here.
LindaOH
@LindaOHio (221109)
• United States
5h
We have been getting plenty of rain. Do you have a drought there?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
Not in my part of Missouri but the Northern part of the state is in drought conditions.
LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (43)
• United States
6h
It's going to rain here all this week but not sure if any storms
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DE
@DaddyEvil (173883)
• United States
2h
Same here. I hope you don't get flooding where you live. The weather forecasters are calling for possible tornadoes this weekend here. I hope those miss both of us.
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