The other two flea traps arrived today, so I started the testing at 3PM CST.

I deployed all three, putting them in places that my ‘bare shins’ test [standing in place while wearing shorts] indicates there are infestations.

I’ll leave them in place to see how they do for several days.

Oklahoma City just can’t catch a break. They got nailed again with a cluster of twisters tonight. I have part of my extended family living in the area, so I check on it.

This year has been strange with a group of tornadoes in the Plains in January, then the traditional time for the storms was quiet, and now they have been occurring daily.

Watching them was weird. At one point the radar indicated that a tornado made a right turn to the south. Tornadoes normally head to the northeast. Things are not acting properly.

The warm moist air for these storms is being pulled out of the Gulf, so we have periods of cloudiness and rain in the forecast, but it still hasn’t happened here, it is flowing to the Plains.

The Gulf will be replenished by the flooding that is occurring at various places in the Mississippi watershed. Rains this heavy aren’t breaking the drought, they are washing away the topsoil.

Update: NBC reports on the multiple tornadoes that hit: 9 confirmed dead, flash flooding taking place, baseball-sized hail, I-40 is littered with overturned vehicles, and a Weather Channel crew found out what it’s like to be inside tumbling dice.

The local NBC affiliate, KFOR, has experienced tornado teams, and one almost got wiped by the twister that suddenly turned south.

Busy, Busy

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[Editor: Froggie pauses on her hunt for something to chase, to see if I’m doing anything interesting.]

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