say National Weather Service
severe thunderstorm warning in effect for this area until 6:45 p.m.
he our tornado sirens are currently going off as oh man look holy cow so
there are power lines laying in the [Music] row good morning everybody so uh today
it's about oh actually I should say good afternoon it is about 11:45 and we're looking right around
4:00 to having some pretty severe storms on the map there's like a mass of red and purple orange
and yellow which is like severe storms headed right to us so it is very hot and humid we are
under a heated advisory till 8:00 tonight um I think we're supposed to be reaching up into up
into like high 90s with 100 degree heat indexes I don't know exactly what it's supposed to be yet
I'll take a peek at it and keep you guys updated I am currently just getting some housework done
um we had the cousins here for about 4 days and so now yesterday was Sunday so we didn't really do
much they had gone home Saturday later in the day we had um our other nephew and his girlfriend
and their kids come over so um we just kind of hung out and then Sunday we just took it easy took
our day of rest so today I am playing ketchup and trying to get all the dishes we used paper plates
and stuff but there're still a ton of dishes from the last few days I was like putting loads in and
it just couldn't keep up with it so that's what I'm doing today is playing ketchup I have some
laundry to fold over here um yeah and we'll just kind of keep an eye on what the weather's like
today and go from there look down here you guys so see that pile dug up by my hydrangeas mhm there's
a little chipmunk digging in there I don't know if he's looking for worms or what it is he's looking
for but I'm going to have to go out and fix it and I was looking it up and they say like there's all
kinds of things that you can buy online but none of them really actually work that well to repel
Chipmunks so we'll see I thought about getting a couple of like fake snakes and wondering if that
would kind of help deter him we do have a holy family fake snakes I'm going to walk outside and
have a heart attack were you standing behind me listening anyway we uh put a window air in in our
fireplace room because it's not air conditioned out there and that's where uh our nephew and his
family were staying so we now have a window air in but yeah so I don't know I don't know if I can
keep that little chipmunk out have you guys had that problem and is there any way that you solved
it wow you guys are super loud super loud yeah you guys have babies in there don't you yeah hi
Bermuda Rio's in the nesting box sitting on her eggs hello hello and they're right next
to all their friends in the other cage that way they're they're not they're
not lonely they have each other but their flocks over here hello you guys
were so talkative yeah you guys were so talkative Guyana and Brazil are out
here by Aspen hanging out with him hi buddy hi kyana hi Brazil uh you can
let him out and Mr Monk Is going to hang out with zaye Zayn's doing school in my
room so he always hangs out with Mr Monk when he's in here he lets him on top of his
cage yeah are you excited you're excited look at him he's like yeah I'm coming out I'm
coming out she probably doesn't know what the camera is come on budy come on M come on
come on come on come on come on come on your M oh oh oh he accidentally flipped himself
upside down hey buddy there you go is that better there you go hi
Mr Monk hi Mr Monk you want hello [Music] yeah it's been 4 weeks since you called
and I've been waiting here for you all along I've been waiting here for you all [Applause] alone where you been where did you go I
wonder if you found what you're looking for wonder if you found what you're looking [Music] for I
hope it's not too late I want you back here with me we never should have said it's better this way
I'd rather be with you than someone I don't know now it's like we're living in two separate worlds
come on back to me say that you won't go I can't cope without you and I want to hold you close say
that you won't go say that you won't go [Music] it's been so cold without you
here we barely Sick by before you disappear it's been so cold without without year okay I just finished folding my load of
laundry I'm going to go ahead and put this away and then and I don't know what I'm going
to do next I think what needs the most work is my kitchen it is a disaster I have a ton of
dishes to do Ireland was sweet and unloaded the dishwasher so that was a big help in
the house she is currently trying to get what anyway she is uh currently
trying to get some of the end of her English class finished up and her math
so she's almost done she's finished all of her classes from her freshman year except for those
two things that she has to get done and I think Zayn is at the tail end of what he needs to get
done for his credit so they're close very close [Music] I feel like I've been here before familiar with
the view this ain't nothing new and every time that you walk through the door I'm hit by the
shame or TI Blinded By the Light and I'm going through changes but it's easy with you I'm
going through changes and so are you I find the moments when you're around me I know you've
got Secrets but I can keep on and we're fing in and out together the fs wide open Stuck in the
Moment [Music] you the F wide open stuck in the [Music] morning the F wide open all right so
I got the dishes started in the dishwasher there's not much left a couple of things I'm going to
clean this side out and then start rinsing dishes put them over here and then hand wash a few things
try to get a strainer full this counters pretty much cleared off just needs wiped couple of pans
that need done few things over here and then the table part of the mess on the table though is Matt
just got a new monitor for his work office or from work for his office and so he's got like all
the packaging supplies out here so I'm going to get rid of a few of these after I figure out what
he needs to send his other monitor back but yeah usually what I try to do is if I'm overloaded on
dishes especially like if we had a lot of company um is I will try to get all the smallest things
loaded into the dishwasher first because a lot of times it's the amount it's like the volume more
than the mass that takes up the space so I loaded most of the small stuff now I'll try to hand wash
some of the big stuff and that'll clear things out of the way so probably have one more dishwasher
load yet and quite a few things I need the hand wash so I'll probably just hand wash some strainer
fulls throughout the day today so I'm currently making Ireland and iced coffee and I usually use
a mason jar to do this I just started making these actually hey re did you want the thing for the
hamburger guess not anyway she's bringing up some burger for me I'm going to toss it in the crock
pot tonight and we're going to have crockpot tacos so anyway I'm going to make her some iced
coffee because she went to the coffee shop one of the coffee shops and she paid $6 for an
iced coffee and she brought it home and I took a drink and I was like o it was not very
good so I was like you know I could save you some money and make you an iced coffee
so what I do is I just pour some ice some crushed ice out of our refrigerator into the
cup sometimes I'll fill it up a little Fuller but I usually do about this much about
2 tablespoons of some caramel and then some french vanilla coffee creamer and then a
little bit of coffee to top it off so that's how I make my iced coffee and I told I know it's
cold that's why I told you to take these down here here toss them in there goof ball careful thank
youe don't break the thing all right thanks for helping yeah so I'll show you how I make my iced
coffee I want to watch you want to watch okay they all like my iced coffee you got to shake it down
a little the ice no it's fine it's fine hey do you want to get me a straw though no I so yeah I
use two tablespoons of this thank you you hit the camera and maybe a little more that
wasn't quite i t you love my iced coffee yes little bit of that is there one in here maybe yeah well T's not okay so then I use a little bit
of that and then probably a little bit more ice [Music] I'm going to pour the coffee in hello guys this is hot coffee don't which is why
I added more ice then I just take a straw mix it up nice coffee and you can make it
stronger if you want or lighter a little just depending on how how much coffee flavor you
like in yours but that's how I make mine okay so you got your brother a present didn't you yes
going to on him it says ADHD highway to Hay look a squirrel for Skyler Skyler's going to love that
so I got the hand washing done I have quite a bit of the kitchen completed I have a little bit more
cleaning to do on the uh counters and then [Music] I want to get this stand cleaned up a little
bit and I have this area here in the dining room to take care of when I get the table lay
the table here in a little bit I've got my ground beef thawing out it's starting to thaw um
so I can put it in my crack pot so doesn't take as long to crack poot Burger I may just end up
frying it up on the stove we'll see um but yeah that's where I'm at so far it's nice and sunny
outside but like I said it looks like about 4:00 I should recheck and see so I was just looking
at the map um and we are it looks like let me back it up a little bit so it looks like we're
going to start getting it backed up a little bit was originally like 4:00 now it looks like
we're going to start getting rain right about 5 :00 but then we're going to be in a huge mass
of severe [Music] weather right about a/4 to 6 so and it's a big storm cell so we'll [Music]
see all right well we'll just keep an eye on it I'm going to keep cleaning on this stormy day
so anyway I'm going to keep cleaning and then we'll just just keep watching the weather
and see what happens show you Ireland's cute outfit today doesn't she look adorable
I'm slay she just bought herself that Kirby shirt and look she did the little buns space
buns to look like Kirby and she said these match his feet yeah I got Kirby's feet on
my ears you look really really cute all I'm slaying I'm going to let the sunshine in the day I'm trying to make this Darkness go away I'll paint with colors and I'll sing until my
lungs give out I'm going to let the sunshine in to day and I will leave my windows open so that I can
hear the sound of people talking the wind blowing in the trees [Music] oh I will open up my eyes so
I can see the light oh and I'll try to spread my wings so I can fly oh and the Darkness starts
to fade feels like things are going to go my way I'm going to let the sunshine in the [Music]
day I'm going to let the the past be filled with smoke and I will try to fix what has been broken
and take this weight off my shoulders cuz I know yesterday and coming back I'm going to let the
past stay in the cold I sign to the ocean let it's on side words be spoken and I'll let my mind
be carried by the waves oh I will open up my eyes so I can see the light oh and I'll try to spread
my wings so I can fly oh and the Darkness starts to fade feels like things are going to go my way
okay so dining room tables reset I was chasing a mosquito around I don't know if I even got him I
got one but we have been getting bit up really bad and I did see a thing that in like the Minnesota
Iowa area and so since we're so close to Iowa Illinois as well um I did see that there is um a
different like strain of mosquitoes or something and they're much more aggressive um and coming out
in the daytime which that little guy was so we we have found we've been getting bit up while in the
house quite a bit so I don't know where they're getting I think they're just coming in through
the front door like they see the light and they come in so um I did find a thing of like a potted
plant I had outside that had some water sitting in there and I think it had mosquito larvae so
I dumped everything out and hopefully hopefully that took care of the issue so but yeah he was
pretty big and I don't need any more mosquito bites I have been my legs are so bit up so how
is it in your area do you guys get mosquitoes really bad or if you are in an area where you
have like a high mosquito population are you noticing that it's worse right now I think with
all the river flooding and stuff that has a lot to do with why the mosquitoes are so bad right now
and we actually live really close to the river I can I can see it for my neighbor's backyard so
yeah anyway so that's what I was doing when I was working on the room in there I was chasing
a mosquito around cuz I'm like not today you are not fighting me anyway all right well lots of
work done in here I'm going to check on my burger see if it's ready to go in the crock pot I think
I'm actually going to do nachos tonight instead because I realized we have a bunch of tortilla
chips that need used up so I think maybe I'll get the stuff to do like an ooey gooey nacho
I'm actually going to look up the recipe right now cuz I made it several times and everybody
really likes it I told you my ice coffee is super good mom going to make me some yeah she's
making make me make her some and really cool I started my own Homeschool Group today so I'm kind
of excited about it we actually have some members so that's cool excited yeah and we're going to
do our first event this week so the birds are going mon loud yeah all right I am going to make
her some throw away my pizza box I had leftover pizza for lunch and then I have to update my
calendar because we have a bunch of new events for this upcoming next couple of weeks that I need
to put on so fun and exciting stuff though lots of swimming lots of cool things so I will bring you
guys Along on whatever I can that we're doing in the upcoming next couple of weeks I think it'll
be fun to add to our summer Adventure list I was actually filling out her summer yeah her summer
Adventure book so I even have a summer Adventure book that I filled out or am filling out I need
to fill mine out I'm behind on mine but yeah got one huh I got on mine yeah so we this is where
we're at so far I don't know if you guys can see all the gold boxes the ones that are filled
in but we filled out quite a few or uh checked off quite a few of our summer Adventure list so
it's been really fun doing okay so I just got an alert on my phone and I'm going to show you guys
it's on the phone with my mom but anyway it says National Weather Service severe thunderstorm
warning in effect for this area until 6:45 p.m. uh for destructive 80 mph winds take shelter
in a sturdy building away from Windows flying debris may be deadly to those caught without
shelter from the window so I'm going to Quick go up hold on mom I'll be right there talking to
my mom on the phone I'm going to go outside and I have a couple of things I need to move out
of the way okay before I get caught in these winds but I want to get stuff kind
of backed up out of the way here so it's not flying everywhere oh
my gosh okay I could hear ah oh okay all right yeah I've got a ladder
outside cuz I was taking lights down me P this up like tornado weather yeah no
yeah no dco weather okay so currently we are getting a little bit of rain look
I have all our chairs piled up over there turned the table upside down we took
Mary in the house I moved Matt's Grill I'm hoping that's enough for his griddle but
that is what our sky is looking like right now the sirens were going off where our parents are and Skyler is braxon is
right now cuz he's working [Music] listen to that Thunder I'm a little
stressed right now because Skyler could not make it to the shelter so he is
riding it out in his house but he does not have a basement he does have a shelter
area near him but he couldn't get to it so and braaton is at work so I'm pretty sure
he's getting off soon well right now he just has to stay where he's at sweetheart yeah
I know anyway we've had some pretty good strikes of lightning you can hear the
thunder they didn't turn it on okay it doesn't work so save the batteries throw that
away oh no I have to throw the batteries away with it okay just throw them away throw them
away then throw them away it's okay anyway it is so humid right now it's like I've had my
camera put away in the camera bag so that way it wouldn't fog up when I brought it out here from
the difference of the air conditioning to the outside but it is so humid it's like wet when you
go outside from the rain and now it's not raining anymore okay you guys so I pulled up my phone
we're now at 78% humidity and the temperature I think the temperature has dropped a little bit
the temperature is 83 degrees but it feels like feels like 82 so it says the wind is making it
feel cooler but the humidity is higher so weird so I just have to show you what's going on it
is literally it looks like nighttime out right now my lights have come on that's how dark it is
look at that they're coming on it's only like 6:30 and I was just out here a couple of minutes
ago and it was so much brighter you guys look it yeah that wind is picking up and it is
so dark like over here you can see how much lighter it is look how dark it is now look
at those clouds rolling oh my cow holy cow the wind picked off and it just started yeah
I'm definitely not taking you outside to see what's going on I just wanted you to
see that little bit there that is oh no it's not oh it just got black wow
the birds are freaking out right now nobody's upstairs are they I don't think
so okay it's a Tre were to come down no he School make sure he's not plugged in
what is Guyana do he's scared look at the clouds Matt's calling and checking on braat
and here you guys want to [Music] see come call me back we're in the r no answer yet so
that always makes parents nervous he could have moved them yeah I've been in touch
with the boys you could have moved into the cooler so now probably it's lighter than
it was it's lighter than it was I don't know if you guys can even see that right now yeah
that was weird it got really dark now it's not bad yeah really dark really fast there must
have been a really big cloud that went over I was doing school and I'm like eh I'll come
back to that prob who that was a good flash lightning okay so the wind is picking up
a bit it is way cooler out than it was before look at that woo look at that
lightning focus on this the power down here so all right what's on there's
another set of Lights wait there's wait there's more lights over here what what
just happened there's a fire across the street their power's out they have no power
the freezer went bad the BL the blast frezer oh no okay our tornado sirens are currently going
off I stepped outside to see if that's what was actually happening cuz you can barely hear
them in our house this is so hard because we had our Sirens going off and they were going off
continuously which usually With Sirens if they're going off continuously that's a tornado warning
however we also have accident Sirens here and we're not under a tornado warning we're under
a th severe thunderstorm warning now they've finally gone off so it's kind of like staying
close to the basement just in case and sending everybody down if we need to so the kids
were down there for a short period of time but now the sirens are off so now we're
all back up here we need one but as you can see Matt's listening woo look at that lightning we are where
we live it's kind of nice we're at the bottom of a bluff in the river valley so which is helpful
we actually lived in an area that was surrounded by River Bluffs and that town got hit really hard
do you remember honey there's no ice there's no ice we out but the water's cold out of the fridge
well I question when he gets me ice water because a lot of times it'll just be ice or it be one
Ice Cube or it'll be no ice cubes or it'll be an empty cup the say's like whatever man at least
I brought you some huh one time I almost gave him I told him there was no way one time I almost
gave him water mixed with soda coming I caught it before I handed it to him no yeah he poured it
wao look at that nice curl you got the curly hair oh in the middle of it it's 7:45 we'll be hit
he's sweaty hit found that out that's why you don't touch a grown man aown considering
you're not a she's still looking for one um also what's up with the spoon what were
you doing it was right here so what did you say over there in the dark bed about 30
to 40 minutes it'll be a little rough yet gety what do we do when we're waiting out a thunderstorm what happened to you she she moved
her legs knock mine off and hit the corner of okay so we're driving to pick up Brax and it
looks like we're pretty much out of any severe weather at this point um but they did get hit
hard in debuk yeah so they're still without power at Braxton's work Skyler could feel his
house shaking yeah um but like I said could not make it to a storm shelter because he doesn't
have a basement but there's a shelter area for him to go to but he couldn't make it there he
said he didn't feel safe trying to get in his car and go to the shter area so yeah which is in his
community yeah but but it's like several blocks away from where he's at we had talked he knew it
was coming and he was getting ready he's like oh I got some laundry in he's like I'll get ready he's
like yeah maybe if Grandpa thinks I should maybe I should cuz Grandpa told him he should probably
go to the shelter and he's like well if gra things it might be bad enough maybe I should and then
he called back like not even a minute and a half later he's like oh it already hit and I don't I'm
feel safer inside than I do outside yeah so as we were just pulling out of town lightning just like
shot in different areas of the sky Weir come it didn't look like it came down it looked like it
spider webbed across the sky yeah that was crazy that's how this storm has gone it's been uh
there was one area across the river from debuk so in a place called Keeler Wisconsin which
is really just a few minutes Drive yeah from us yeah from us and from debuk and they lost
one of the places there lost a roof they have such good food yeah it's a place called
uh the village bar and there roof came off so we'll have to see and I don't know what
kind of damage debuk has taken but we're about to go find out guys look at this look at that
rainbow and it's double isn't that neat it's so cool oh man look holy cow they lost a tree in the
storm they lost a tree you guys how cool is this I mean really rainbow look at this you guys
where more trees are down there's a bush no honey that's a tree tree but I don't know where
it came from yeah I think it blew over here oh I don't see what it's snapped off of okay so we
were going to go up to Eagle Point Park and this is the back road but this is a tree across the
back road now we're going to have to now people live up here yeah we're going to have to how are
they going to get out there's no other Road no there's no way in or out that's a big tree oh my
gosh do they even know it's down that got hit by lighting it looks like you better call it in I
bet they don't know it's down so there are power lines laying in the road which is why there is no
electricity to this area here this tree that did it one of the parks there's trees down lines
on that car there's police tape here no the power lines are down though I don't think you guys
can see them but I just called the non-emergency number to let them know the tree was across the
road and so she's going to send Park and Rec out there to see if they can get that cleared up so
there is a lot of damage in the Dubuque Iowa area