Monday, December 10, 2007
Oklahoma City on ice
This is a decent glimpse of what happened here today.
--ER
--ER
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Oh that makes me so sad! I love that neighborhood. It wasn't so very far east of my old neighborhood and you know I spent a lot of time there on various projects. Makes me want to cry. I haven't been out and about in my city because I've been majorly sick (like Linda Blair sick) for the last 24 hours or so.) I do worry about the two HUGE oak trees in my front yard. If they go, they will wipe out some houses. Thanks for posting the video. Love the technology that's available now. Very jealous.
I'm always amazed at the combination of beauty and destruction that ice storms bring.
My folks lost most of two pecan trees in the last big ice storm and they've recovered pretty nicely (granted it's been a few years). So hopefully the trees in the video will recover as well. Trixie's right, though--made me want to cry.
Oh, and Rich: there were a few brief mentions of y'all's hurricane on the news here, but that was on the local news of the three channels I get sans cable. Don't watch the national news.
My folks lost most of two pecan trees in the last big ice storm and they've recovered pretty nicely (granted it's been a few years). So hopefully the trees in the video will recover as well. Trixie's right, though--made me want to cry.
Oh, and Rich: there were a few brief mentions of y'all's hurricane on the news here, but that was on the local news of the three channels I get sans cable. Don't watch the national news.
It does LOOK lovely, in spite of it all. The people in the video seem pretty upbeat about it. I hope they get their power back sooner than later.
Post a picture of your oak tree. :)
Post a picture of your oak tree. :)
# posted by 
: 2:30 PM
: 2:30 PM
Two things:
1) OK has sent IL a Christmas present in the form of . . . an ice storm! It's been freezing rain all day, and is supposed to continue until midnight, before which it will change to snow as the temperature plummets from the steady 32 degrees it's been to the mid-teens. Yea.
2) No bad words or feelings to Kirsten, but please double-check her comment, dude, I think she slipped just a tad. Probably not intentionally or with bad intent, but, you might want to check it out anyway.
1) OK has sent IL a Christmas present in the form of . . . an ice storm! It's been freezing rain all day, and is supposed to continue until midnight, before which it will change to snow as the temperature plummets from the steady 32 degrees it's been to the mid-teens. Yea.
2) No bad words or feelings to Kirsten, but please double-check her comment, dude, I think she slipped just a tad. Probably not intentionally or with bad intent, but, you might want to check it out anyway.
Kirsten is talking to Mr. Bachelor, in response to his comment on another post. This joint can get confusing sometimes.
Sorry Geoffrey--didn't mean to cause confusion through my lazy commenting!
Just saw a picture of the OU campus here: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/winter/2007-12-10-ice-storm_N.htm?csp=34
Oh, that hurts to look at.
Just saw a picture of the OU campus here: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/winter/2007-12-10-ice-storm_N.htm?csp=34
Oh, that hurts to look at.
Yeesh. Looks like that all over the OKC metro area.
What hurts me is to stories that refer to Oklahoma as beign in the Midwest! It's in the SOUTHWEST!!
What hurts me is to stories that refer to Oklahoma as beign in the Midwest! It's in the SOUTHWEST!!
I always thought OK was part of the Plains States, from the Dakotas down to TX (I don't consider Texas to be part of the southwest, except maybe for El Paso and areas roundabout there). I live in the Midwest, but I also live in the Great Lakes region; but I grew up in the Northeast, but also in the Great Lakes region (unless Lake Ontario and Lake Erie don't count as Great Lakes?). Except for New England and West Coast, and maybe Mid-Atlantic, these kind of regional designations tend to be pretty arbitrary, I think.
Sorry myself for the confusion. Kirsten, ER, neither of you need to apologize. Ignorance on my part created an issue out of a non-issue. I hope bygones can be bygones and all that good stuff.
Do you still have power?
Sorry myself for the confusion. Kirsten, ER, neither of you need to apologize. Ignorance on my part created an issue out of a non-issue. I hope bygones can be bygones and all that good stuff.
Do you still have power?
Power still on. No leaks -- keeping fingers crossed.
My oak tree has one big broken limb, up high -- not too terribly disfigured.
My oak tree has one big broken limb, up high -- not too terribly disfigured.
Oklahoma geographically and culturally approximately like this:
Northeast: Ozarks-Upland South.
Southeast: Lowland South.
(BTW: I grew up right in the middle fo eastern Oklahoma.)
Southwest: Texas-Plains.
Northwest: West-Plains.
Panhandle: West-Plains.
Oklahoma is in the South, and the West, and the Southwest -- and central and western upper-tier counties got a little Midwest thing going for 'em.
This is a really good article that splains it:
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/
encyclopedia/entries/C/CU001.html
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Northeast: Ozarks-Upland South.
Southeast: Lowland South.
(BTW: I grew up right in the middle fo eastern Oklahoma.)
Southwest: Texas-Plains.
Northwest: West-Plains.
Panhandle: West-Plains.
Oklahoma is in the South, and the West, and the Southwest -- and central and western upper-tier counties got a little Midwest thing going for 'em.
This is a really good article that splains it:
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/
encyclopedia/entries/C/CU001.html
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