we did ok here but other people are without power today and there might have been a few tornadoes (not verified yet). i checked how things looked last night right before going to sleep and the storms looked to have lost a lot of their worst by the time they got over to where we're at. i unplugged things and turned off the AC to prevent problems or damage from the lightning or the power going on and off and went to sleep. woke up, no power issues and the roof did not leak so i'm glad for that but also sad for others who have to deal with this today and possibe damage or cleaning up.
since i won't be doing much gardening today i can do some black ant tracking, baiting and caulking gaps shut if i can find where they are using them to get into the walls of the house. not a very fun job to do and it takes patience and repeat efforts to make sure to keep them all sealed out... there's a lot of parts to these walls... but it has to be done or they can cause a lot of damage.
the local town did take some damage from the storms last night, big trees down and power out. i'm not sure if there was any tornadoes involved in that or not. i didn't even know there was that kind of damage until i signed on the check the weather radar for this early evening - i have some things outside drying in the sun and hoped they'd have another hour or two...