One Reason I Love Oklahoma: Tornadoes!

I just got through blogging about this on my website, but I got to see a tornado in the making today as a funnel cloud passed by my house!  It was awesome and exciting - yet scary to know that it came so fast that we were never in a tornado warning.  The tornado touched down a couple miles from here and I think it hit close to the church we used to attend many years ago.  Well, I gotta get back to the news.  Freakish as it sounds, many people in Oklahoma are mesmerized with watching clouds that can reduce big homes into tiny splinters in a fraction of a second.

May 7, 2008 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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7 Responses to “One Reason I Love Oklahoma: Tornadoes!”

  1. Richard Gaspard on May 7th, 2008 8:28 pm

    Where in Oklahoma do you live? I lived in Tulsa for six years. I was the Chief Audio Engineer at Oral Roberts TV, plus I taught the Jazz Ensemble at ORU for three of those years.

    Small world, bro.

  2. James Dalman on May 8th, 2008 6:30 am

    I live in Yukon which is a suburb of Oklahoma City and an hour and a half from Tulsa. Definitely a small world!

  3. Jayce Tohline on May 8th, 2008 11:28 am

    I live in Tulsa, but was in Memphis last night having dinner in a restaurant when the call came from my family… Sirens were going off. They were in the closet with the dog, and trying to hear the TV updates through the closed door.

    No tornado (at least where we live), but lots of rain REAL quick. Rivers in the yard.

    I’m constantly impressed, though, by the television coverage of heavy weather. Their technology is amazing. Coupled with on-the-ground spotters I feel relatively safe in the midst of it all. A few years ago I turned the TV on in the afternoon to check for inbound thunderstorms and caught live shots of a tornado going through southern Oklahoma City.

  4. James Dalman on May 8th, 2008 12:16 pm

    Jayce,

    Yeah, that part of Oklahoma was in a tornado warning for a while and a very large area! I would have had my family in our storm shelter with me on the roof and a video camera. I am glad there were no injuries.

    The technology is amazing though last night in our area the weather changed so quick that the technology missed it. For the most part, we stay very safe and informed…down to the street and time of arrival.

    Back on May 3rd, 1999, I was on a search and rescue team and we were mobilized in Moore and Bridge Creek. It was the craziest thing I ever saw and could write countless posts about what I observed. Though the only safe place from that one was underground.

  5. Richard Gaspard on May 8th, 2008 4:51 pm

    The best part about the whole thing is how they track it on the screen for you. They have this arrow pointing to where the storm is, then tell you where it’s going. I distinctly remember the following…

    - Dick Faurot, TV6 weatherman, “Right here, the tornado is at 81st and Riverside and in a half-hour, it will be at 61st and Peoria…”

    Wait a second! I live at 67th and Utica! It’s headed straight for me!

    I’m a born-and-raised Cajun, so the whole freaked me out EVERY SINGLE TIME! We spent a couple of nights in our middle closet. Me, my wife, our oldest daughter (our only daughter at the time), AND the dog.

    Good times.

  6. James T. on May 17th, 2008 9:11 pm

    I went to one of those drive through animal parks in Oklahoma. It said on the sign that it was Oklahoma’s biggest attraction. Is it really?

    Th go-karts were fun.

  7. James Dalman on May 18th, 2008 9:26 pm

    James,

    That must have been the Arbuckle Wilderness. As far as biggest attraction,hmmm…that depends on whether it means visitors, interest, or size - I don’t think this to be true on the first two. That would probably go to the OKC National Memorial or Cowboy Hall of Fame.

    But what do I know? I don’t get out much and I have never been to the Arbuckle Zoo. :)

    If you like go-karts, you should try the covered wagons! LOL.

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