Severe Weather & Heavy Rain Threat Eased Locally

The storm system that's been bringing severe weather and flooding from the Northern and Central Plains is disorganizing to re-organize.

Severe weather is still expected today over many of the same areas mentioned above however.

One to two inches of rain are still possible over the next 5 days (through the Memorial Day weekend) in Metro Kansas City - but the threat of any organized severe weather or flash-flood events - at this time - has lessened considerably from 24 hours ago.
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Auntie Joann's Gasoline Price Protest

The dear lady is a spark plug. Since her 3rd husband Hank passed late in '05 - Auntie is a weekly casino-goer enjoying her retirement as a registered nurse.

Cutting to the chase - Aunt Jo - in her late-60's and does not drive - is recruiting older ladies to picket some hapless gas station at some undetermined date in the near-future.

I keep telling her - you can't even get more than 50-percent of registered voters to do so - how is one day picketing or driving but not filling up helping?

Nothing short of a 1-2 day national strike - everybody stays home or parks it - might do anything. Everybody meaning maybe 75% (gotta have cops, fire & EMS).

More realistic is usage. I have nursed Harry's nearly-full tank for a month now. I cussed having to put that much in at $2.69 a gallon. You bet I've had to sacrifice going places and seeing people since to keep the gauge right around the three-quarter mark now.

Folks can and will do what they want about these outrageous price rises in petro.
I figure if I can get away not paying the price of a product through non-usage - THAT's the ticket!
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Bombs For Christ

Maybe this young man was trying to eliminate the Scourge of (Kansas) Topeka - High Priest Phelps.
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Tennessee Highway Trooper Blows Job

Maybe more correctly the headline should read The Blue-Movie Lady Did It....
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Double Bogey?

The AP reports a golfer doing a Griswold off a cliff.
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"Illegal Immigrants" Arrested Near Springfield, MO..

Our sneaky INS got 100 at a chicken plant in Battlefield- near Springfield.
Witnesses and video show INS officers in- around and on top of the plant itself during the raid.
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Kansas Turnpike Tolls To Increase

This 5-percent increase scheduled to go into effect July 1, 2007.

The Kansas Turnpike is I-70 west from Bonner Springs to Topeka- I-335 south to Emporia - then I-35 from Emporia to the Oklahoma state border.

Tornadic Supercells In N.W. Kansas

Here's a screen capture from my weather radar program. The purplish triangles are tornadoes indicated by the radar - this one in Goodland, KS..

The image below are wind velocity radar scans - red colors are winds moving away from the radar- green is winds blowing toward the radar in Goodland.
You can see the circulation of a visually-confirmed tornado on the ground southwest of Hill City, KS..


Visible weather satellite picture of the above areas.

Increasing Threat Of Severe Weather Across Kansas Wednesday

The NWS' Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK has the entire Kansas City MetroRegion under a "slight risk" of severe thunderstorms on Wednesday.

Inside that corridor is a "moderate risk" area that stretches from south central Kansas into extreme southeastern Nebraska.

There is also a good risk of heavy - possibly flash-flooding rains with any of the stronger thunderstorms - especially if storms continue moving over the same areas as is possible.

Stay tuned!

More Flooding Rains Possible In The Central U.S.?

The following graphic was just issued by the Hydrological arm of the National Weather Service.
Valid time frame of this graphic being 6am this morning through 6am Sunday morning - much of the Kansas City MetroRegion could experience heavy and possibly flooding rainfall.
Bear in mind- these are forecasts - lighter or heavier amount areas could shift. (Click on image for higher resolution)
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American Occupation Of Iraq Continues To Go Well

Just pay no attention to that man behind the curtain is all...
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