Topic: How I love Oklahoma

[Captain Krenn]

NOT!

Ah, the spring time thunderstorms, the rain, the clouds,

THE FREAKING TORNADOS THAT MISS YOU BY JUST A FEW FEET AND DO $3200.00 DOLLARS
DAMAGE TO YOUR BARELY BROKEN IN TRUCK BY THROWING HAIL STONES AT IT!!!

$%&*(#$&$%)&*$#$()&%!!!



 

[Sirgod]

Dang man, Check your PM's here in a few.

stephen

[Stormbringer]

That stuff missed the town I'm staying at by meters. Softball sized hail, 60 mile per hour gusts. But I've been in buildings where the roof was torn off by tornadoes. I looked up into the devastating tornado that destroyed a large portion of Moore. I watched as a huge wall cloud stopped over my barracks at the NCO academy and a funnel dipped down for a moment right over me within 15 minutes of me arriving for BNCOC. Oklahoma does not mess around when it comes to severe weather. But I miss the spectacular lightning storms that were frequent here 25 years ago. Those topped any 4rth of july fireworks display ever concieved by man.

[Musashi]

One night in '72, Mom listened to the 10:00pm weather report and got a little worried.  She crawled into bed with Pop, elbowed him in the ribs to wake him up and asked him to go look at the coming storm clouds.

Pop, the Family Civil Defense Director,  got out of bed and walked out on the front porch in his underwear.  He was out there about 30 second.  (There is still a debate on whether he ever actually opened his eyes.)  Anyway, he crawled back into bed and (before he went back to sleep) he told Mom:  "Well, .... it's gonna blow."

15 minutes later, all of the windows on the south and west sides of the house desintigrated and all of the drapes were pasted to the ceiling.  mo-Ron and I ran out of our bedroom and crawled into bed with Ma and Pa.  

The rough part probably lasted just 5-10 minutes.  However, 5-10 minutes is a LONG time to sit and wonder if the house you are sitting in is going to blow away.

We were pretty lucky.  The next morning we had a couple of mangled trees, a damaged roof to replace, a little barn damage, our 35' tv antenna was sticking out of the roof like God had stood across the road and shot us with a giant bow and arrow,  and a missing metal water trough for our horses.   (Tthe water trough was a mystery for a long time.  "God stole it." was about the only explanation that made any sense.  We found the trough a few years later when we had a dry year and the ponds got low.   It had made a hole-in-one in a pond 1/4 mile from the house.)

I've got more tornado stories, but i will not bore you guys.  It gets kinda interesting around here during Tornado Season.  My Crazy Uncle Larry ,1/2 mile down the road, has the right approach .... he built a 84'x32' underground house (bermed).....  8" steel reinforced exterior walls and a 6" center-line wall ....  A tornado could set down in his front yard and he could sleep right through it.  Even though he is crazy, he's quite popular with his neighboring relatives when the sky gets ugly and giants are roaming the Earth.  (Sure, we all have cellars for emergencies but, if you can make it to Crazy Uncle Larry's, you can sit on his couch and watch TV while everything blows away.  )


Mush the Family Assistant Civil Defense Director

[Sirgod]

LOL, that's pretty funny there Mush.

I can recall back around 75 we had a big one hit up at Verdigris OK. It was kinda funny in retro spect. I had a new swingset out in the back yard, and this storm comes along, Rips It out of the ground, Takes It over the roof of our house, across the street, Picks up the nieghbors truck, puts the truck on top of the swingset and leaves.

I also recall a story about a House being torn to shreds, except for the porch and a mop leaning against the Door jam. The mop had never even moved.

Stephen

[Khalee]

I know you dont like thunder boomers and Hail But Neither do I, so keep this stuff down in your state. Damn it rained and hailed so hard around noon couldnt hardly see accross the street , And I know my basement is flooded. Street flooded all the way across when that one came thru, and now its raining again.  

[Khalee]

Know I got a lake in my back yard, and the crows and going after the worms and bugs that were forced up.
 flooded almost up to the house this time, been a while since its flooded that bad. And that means ill have at least 6 inches of water in the basement. the most we ever had was a foot, came over the very bottom step.

[Captain Krenn]

Well, situation is resolved

I took the Insurance check to the dealer, gave them half of it

Then got a new truck!  

My payments went down by about $4 a month and I got a
brand new '04 Dark blue metallic Avalanche to replace
the Arrival Blue one.  

Heh, bring on the Thunderstorms!  

(j/k in case anyone here actually controls them   )  

[Stormbringer]

You rang?

[Sirgod]

LOL, well that is good news Kreen. I'm happy for you Bro.

stephen