r/kansascity • u/devitolover69 • 1d ago

Weather 🌦️ We needed this rain…

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u/justjoshinaround 1d ago edited 1d ago
  • The plants are going to love this
  • I sure don't want to get stuck in this on the way home
  • It's raining cats and dogs
  • The humidity is going to make my hair freak
  • The roads are slickest in the first half hour
  • I actually sleep better in the rain
  • We're paying for all the sun we got this year
  • The weather just makes me wanna stay home cuddled up with a good book
  • If we lived in Seattle every day would be like this
  • I wish we were allowed one rain day
  • I love the smell after it rains
  • Nobody knows how to drive in the rain

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u/fallensoap1 KCMO 1d ago

What good book are u gonna read?

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u/justjoshinaround 1d ago

Slewfoot

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u/fallensoap1 KCMO 1d ago

I just looked this up. I love dark fantasy. I’m an H.P lovecraft fan

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u/justjoshinaround 1d ago

it's quite good my dude. read it last month and really enjoyed it. currently on little heaven and im thinking it might turn into a DNF for me, just hasn't hooked me. really cool ideas with bad execution

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u/fallensoap1 KCMO 1d ago

Oh so u like the genre. I’m also currently writing a story

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u/justjoshinaround 1d ago

close to finish or deep into writing?

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u/fallensoap1 KCMO 1d ago

Deep into writing and drawing it. I’m currently honing my drawing skills because I always wanted to make a comic. Once my animation skills get their I plan to do some animations too

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u/International_Bend68 10h ago

Try the Wool book series

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u/smuckola 1d ago

i just drove through that water in our mini SUV realllllly slowly with no issue. The other lane had a submerged wrecked car bumper. i got through it and passed an oncoming truck that had stopped to watch me. i hollered "that was a bad idea!" and she turned around lol. i was so stupid but that was the direct path to Taco Bell like moth to flame. Historic Northeast is totally surrounded by overhead train bridges with deep subway streets. While i sat and waited for the food, i called kcpd to report the subway flood danger. I passed that intersection 20 minutes later and and called 911 to report DANGER CONFIRMED! 👺

See the car on the right? With his left turn blinker on? YEP. I told the dispatcher "and we have ANOTHER winner!!!" He stopped in the water to stare at the rear of that car for QUITE a while before reversing.

Shout out to Public Works and to Mark of the Sheffield Neighborhood Association for campaigning so long for these subway lights.

When I bought this mini SUV, I had to do welding repairs on the fully rusted front end underside, so I reckon she's suffering flashbacks tonight. ......DUH!

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u/UncleSugarShitposter 23h ago

It’s ALWAYS the Nissan Altima

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u/thefirstviolinist 17h ago

Frankly, this needs its own post.

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u/schlidel JoCo 1d ago

We needed this

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u/Icy_Category_2275 16h ago

Just for small correction, it is NOT like that everyday in Seattle. I think locals tell people that to keep them out. Its a rainy winter but otherwise their weather is pretty nice.

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u/suomynonaresutsohg 9h ago

Yall really think Seattle rains every day. 🤣 man Seattle has gotten so warm (from there unfortunately) as a kid they said in about 50-60 years it’ll be like California weather.

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u/spinster_maven 1d ago

My plants needed water, but they blew over and didn't get much. I hid in the bathroom, I thought the glass might go. I'm in Gladstone.

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u/lebellacarus 1d ago

I’m pretty sure the wind took off the top of my chimney

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u/Roll-Roll-Roll South KC 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm still trying to figure out what storm you guys are talking about...

Edit: found it!

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u/kmonay89 South KC 1d ago

Yeah it’s a little quiet here in south KC still

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u/ResurrectedMortician 1d ago

Look outside now

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u/Fit_Car948 1d ago

Didn’t need the power out though. Gladstone had serious wind

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u/idtakeitallback 1d ago

been in Gladstone 6 years now, never seen wind like that, trees down everywhere

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u/Secret_Werewolf1942 1d ago

It's been a hot minute. Last time I saw this much damage in Gladstone was when a tornado ripped the roof off the QT on Englewood and punched pool balls through the walls at Side Pockets.

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u/mah_astral_body 23h ago

May 4, 2003?

https://fox4kc.com/news/18-years-later-remembering-one-of-the-kansas-city-metros-strongest-tornado-outbreaks/

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u/Secret_Werewolf1942 22h ago

Yup, that would be it. If you know where to look you can still see the patches in the stucco on Side Pockets.

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u/Zealousideal-Age768 20h ago

Yup, if you know what to look for you can see where the tornado ripped the sidewalk out of the ground in Carriage Hills.  The sidewalks were repaired but the coloring is still off all these years later.

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u/parkerthegreatest Library District 18h ago

I think liberty had a tornado near it

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u/International_Bend68 10h ago

I'm in liberty. Those winds and rain were insane, haven't seen anything like that in decades.

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u/PianoElectronic5885 1d ago

Gee that was terrifying right?? And yeah still no power which.... great 🫪

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u/Current_Animator7546 1d ago

Gladstone is a mess 

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u/parkerthegreatest Library District 18h ago

It was

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u/Zealousideal_Ad_821 Gladstone 15h ago

Still is, downed trees, branches, and power is still out in my neighborhood

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u/mczerniewski Overland Park 1d ago

I work in Gladstone. I was up there this evening when the power went out in our building. Lucky to have gotten home.

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u/deadpanloli 1d ago

We just gonna pretend it didn't rain every freaking day last week?

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u/RecommendationFit844 1d ago

It’s been like…4 straight days without rain. It was practically Death Valley here!

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u/Commercial-Land-6806 20h ago

The great phenomenon of KC. I live on the southern side of the metro in Olathe. My best friend is up north in Gladstone. We were talking about how for him he had rain once a week, if not multiple times a week, for the last couple months. Meanwhile down here it was so dry I couldn't keep my garden watered enough to not dry out and practically die.

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u/KarmaChameleon520 13h ago

That reminds me there was one time that was pretty cool when I was a kid who lived in an apartment in Blue Springs and it rained out back but not out front. Seemed like the strangest thing back then lol. I miss the rainbows we used to get too. I don't feel like i see very many anymore.

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u/BuyLandcruiser 19h ago

lol that’s what I came to say. Rained a lot recently lol

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u/horkyboi_avery 14h ago

It’s been almost two weeks since it rained last in Overland Park…

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u/AcanthocephalaDue715 Brookside 1d ago

It’s magnificent

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u/Master_grader 1d ago

I had one more day of dirt work to do. Damn

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u/kevint1964 15h ago

Now it's mud work.

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u/Specific_Midnight81 1d ago

I found my neighbor's downspout in my driveway.

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u/sdcumb Clay County 14h ago

Flooded neighbor's basement, incoming!

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u/THE_TamaDrummer 1d ago

10th time we have lost power here in the northland this year since April.

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u/Alive-Till5115 1d ago

right? my garden was looking so sad

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u/MuchDelivery8537 Independence 1d ago

Nah bro I’m tired of my grass growing and me having to mow it 🙄😂

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u/videogamejunkie86 1d ago

You’re absolutely right we did need the rain. It’s better than having 115° weather

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u/faithmauk 1d ago

Ok but it knocked down my halloween decorations so I'm kind if mad at it.

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u/Populaire_Necessaire 1d ago

My ass loves the rain. Gimme that thunder and pitter patter!!

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u/sdcumb Clay County 1d ago

We have two trees down in our front yard. We didn't need this firewood.

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u/mczerniewski Overland Park 1d ago

Not like this. I'm lucky to have gotten home from work (where we lost power!).

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u/Brilliant-Tune-9202 Lawrence 1d ago

Didn't need the thunder here in Lawrence to scare my dog, who then woke up the kids... 🙃

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u/Mysterious_Repeat989 1d ago

Drugged my dog as soon as it started lightning 😂

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u/whetherby 16h ago

I did not need the flash flood into my garage caused by road construction removing the former flood prevention.

But I like the rain! and the lack of 90 degrees.

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u/Retiddereromeno 6h ago

I didn’t need the wind though.

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u/Fast-Assistance-8936 1d ago

But the tap water tastes weird now /s

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