It was a perfect holiday weekend for weather.
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Drove past the area that had the F-3 tornado in Mullica Hill NJ. Imagine a 400 yard wide path where every tree is snapped about 30-40 feet from the ground. Every house had severe roof damage. This one home that has a beautiful lake out front has a metal flag pile between the lake and the house that is bent in half. It’s a shocking image that I’m surprised wasn’t captured by the local news media. We took a different road on the way to where we were going that was a couple of miles north of the damage that I just described and it was the same thing…every home had their roofs ripped off, most covered with tarps, tree trimmers were still cleaning up the mess, cars and sheds tossed around. It’s going to take years for this area to get back to normal. Seeing the damage in person really knocks the wind out of you…not at all like seeing it on tv.
Odds are high that I'll have a nice bloody arrow come opening weekend. That's in the plan anyways.
Weather forecast looks to be absolutely perfect at the moment for me to slide in during the mild rain and get setup for a nice evening hunt on opening day.
Can't wait!
Good luck to everyone else that will be hitting the woods this weekend!
Weather forecast looks to be absolutely perfect at the moment for me to slide in during the mild rain and get setup for a nice evening hunt on opening day.
Can't wait!
Good luck to everyone else that will be hitting the woods this weekend!
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Yep, weather is looking purdy awesome for opening weekend here as well. Won't have the N winds we need to get K on a deer here at the house, so we'll need a different gameplan. We've definitely had much worse weather conditions for the first hunts of the year that's for sure!
You guys that hunt closer to a river/creek...do you see a big difference in where the deer go after a big rain? The area I had planned to hunt saturday is directly close to a river and bean field the deer have been in. I havent seen how bad it's flooded but im sure its pretty bad. Will the high water push those deer out for awhile?
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Yes, the deer will get pushed out. For how long depends on many things, like local cover and how fast the water goes back down.
3.5" since it started raining early yesterday AM....could have been much worse. We were overdue, so as long as it shuts down and warms up like it was supposed to things will recover nicely and the front yard I just planted over the weekend should pop nicely in the next week.
Tornado sirens woke me up about 15 minutes ago. Apparently, there's a tornado warning once again for us this year. I believe it's just now past us, I think.... can't tell what we've got until daylight shows up pretty much. We did have some real strong winds at least.
All is okay!
Just drove around the block in the neighborhood. We have a fair amount of tree debris in the yard, including the other second half a shrub in the front yard that is now finished. The last tornado warning earlier in the year took out the first half of that shrub.
The neighbor on the other side of our creek, just NE of us, on top of the hill, his standing corn took the major brunt of the storm. Nearly all of his corn is sheared in half and knocked over, and his neighbor has a real big tree down right next to the road. Other than that, looks like all the damage wasn't all that bad for the most part. Just some minor clean up.
Apparently, there was a news report of the tornado warning last night in Highland Co., which is just SW of us -
https://www.fox19.com/2021/10/16/nw...do-touchdown-highland-county/?outputType=apps
Our area seems to have a long history of tornados, and I did not know just how prevalent they are for our area until I just looked it up this morning. Below is map of confirmed tornados for the general area of the past. We have been getting tornado warnings at least once a year for the last few years since we've lived here.
Source - https://tornadopaths.org/zipcode/
It kinda sucks cause I had plans of hunting first thing this morning, but instead I slept in and then inspected whatever storm damage instead during daylight. I'll get out this afternoon and hunt the rest of the day within the big woods just south of me, then hit it again tomorrow.
Good luck to whomever is out hunting this weekend!
Wife and kids are safe. Something told me to get out and check on them. Tornado was a few miles from the house.
