Thursday, June 05, 2008
We're pullin' our hats down low, holdin' on tight and plantin' our heels in our stirrups for a hell of a ride
Oklahoma weather today:
Earthquakes!
Wildfires! Poor Gotebo (pop. about 230)!
Tornadoes in the forecast! (Don't let the fact that it's just a watch fool you.) It could come a bad-ass situation this evening. We can feel it.)
And the wind has been high, hot, out of the southwest and INCESSANT long enough now to start to piss even ME off -- and I'm not that picky about weather! It's deadly.
WTH's next? Wars and rumours of war? Oh, we already had that. Never mind.
--ER
Earthquakes!
Wildfires! Poor Gotebo (pop. about 230)!
Tornadoes in the forecast! (Don't let the fact that it's just a watch fool you.) It could come a bad-ass situation this evening. We can feel it.)
And the wind has been high, hot, out of the southwest and INCESSANT long enough now to start to piss even ME off -- and I'm not that picky about weather! It's deadly.
WTH's next? Wars and rumours of war? Oh, we already had that. Never mind.
--ER
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The sun is out, the temp is up, but the fences along NW 164th are down like nobody's biz.
And I can't tell if I'm burning the chicken because the smoke usually travels upwards out of the grill, but now it's shooting out of the side of the grill like jet exhaust.
I'd better go check. Now where are my tongs?
And I can't tell if I'm burning the chicken because the smoke usually travels upwards out of the grill, but now it's shooting out of the side of the grill like jet exhaust.
I'd better go check. Now where are my tongs?
# posted by 
: 6:53 PM
: 6:53 PM
SBM, I first read the above blog comment via e-mail on my cell phone (!!) in the backyard with the dogs and a stogie, and I resd "tongs" as "thong" -- and I thought, 1., that is way TMI about yer grillin' outfit; and 2., and yet my p.o.s. fence still yet stands! (I *want* the wind to knock it down so I can get a new one for the deductible).
Then, I thought: This wind rwally can slap ya nekkid! Leaving work, between the building and the car, the wind unrolled my shirtsleeves and untucked my shirt damnn near all the way! ... And the line was still in western OK.
Hoo boy.
And I trust yer grillin' on some kind of digital grill, and not with an open flame! He said sheepishly, admitting that he just smoked a cigar and flicked ashes (very carefully!) outside.
Then, I thought: This wind rwally can slap ya nekkid! Leaving work, between the building and the car, the wind unrolled my shirtsleeves and untucked my shirt damnn near all the way! ... And the line was still in western OK.
Hoo boy.
And I trust yer grillin' on some kind of digital grill, and not with an open flame! He said sheepishly, admitting that he just smoked a cigar and flicked ashes (very carefully!) outside.
Weather story writes:-
At noon, temperatures were hovering in the mid-80s to low-90s at many locations in Oklahoma
WOW... and to think water boils at 100!!! Oh, sorry you use F not C.
I have not idea what temperature that is, but it still sounds warm.
At least all I have to worry about in summer it seems is forest fires and no water (he say's only)
Hope all goes well...
Lee
At noon, temperatures were hovering in the mid-80s to low-90s at many locations in Oklahoma
WOW... and to think water boils at 100!!! Oh, sorry you use F not C.
I have not idea what temperature that is, but it still sounds warm.
At least all I have to worry about in summer it seems is forest fires and no water (he say's only)
Hope all goes well...
Lee
What?!? You're still here? I thought OK had been scooped out of the Earth and cast into the sea by the hand of God himself!
:-)
Seriously, hang on and ride it out!
(we had tonrnado weather up here last night. I was teaching class in a little wooden box in the middle of a big flat feild. Fun!)
:-)
Seriously, hang on and ride it out!
(we had tonrnado weather up here last night. I was teaching class in a little wooden box in the middle of a big flat feild. Fun!)
# posted by : 7:03 AM
: 7:03 AM
Frenzied: LOL. OK, OK, not an earthquake. An earth-twitch!
Lee, 95 here would be 35 there.
Hey, where I lived in Texas, one summer the high temps were over 105 (about 40 there) for 30 days in a row.
Lee, 95 here would be 35 there.
Hey, where I lived in Texas, one summer the high temps were over 105 (about 40 there) for 30 days in a row.
BTW, if you dont mind a little self-promotion...I've discovereed YET ANOTHER way that I am evil and doomed to hell.
http://www.anomalousdata.com/Yet+ANOTHER+Evil+Thing+I+Do.aspx
What can I say? It's a gift. I don't even TRY :-)
http://www.anomalousdata.com/Yet+ANOTHER+Evil+Thing+I+Do.aspx
What can I say? It's a gift. I don't even TRY :-)
# posted by : 7:06 AM
: 7:06 AM
Hey, where I lived in Texas, one summer the high temps were over 105 (about 40 there) for 30 days in a row.
30 days? We get the 40’s over here, but only a few days here and there in the summer (and we shit ourselves about fires)
30’s are nice though… love it (apart from no water as I said My lawn just dies every summer)
Lee
30 days? We get the 40’s over here, but only a few days here and there in the summer (and we shit ourselves about fires)
30’s are nice though… love it (apart from no water as I said My lawn just dies every summer)
Lee
I think after a week of that hot wind, the line of storms was a letdown. Kind of fell apart just as they got here.
What a gyp! But hey, the season is young.
What a gyp! But hey, the season is young.
Here's Teresa's full link (copy and scrunch and paste):
http://www.anomalousdata.com
/Yet+ANOTHER+
Evil+Thing+I+Do.aspx
NOW I know what kind of fiddle the devil played when he went down to Georgia!
http://www.anomalousdata.com
/Yet+ANOTHER+
Evil+Thing+I+Do.aspx
NOW I know what kind of fiddle the devil played when he went down to Georgia!
The Garber-Wellington Fault extends
north/south through the middle of Oklahoma. It is an ancient fault. It is three times older than the San Andreas and twice as old as the New Madrid Fault. For it to move at all is significant.
The records being set in Eastern Colorado and New Mexico, plus the Texas panhandle are breaking those set in 1930. The weather profile is fighteningly similar ot 1930. Now will get to see if those 75,000farm and ranch ponds/tanks in Oklahoma will make a difference.
May you live in interesting times.
north/south through the middle of Oklahoma. It is an ancient fault. It is three times older than the San Andreas and twice as old as the New Madrid Fault. For it to move at all is significant.
The records being set in Eastern Colorado and New Mexico, plus the Texas panhandle are breaking those set in 1930. The weather profile is fighteningly similar ot 1930. Now will get to see if those 75,000farm and ranch ponds/tanks in Oklahoma will make a difference.
May you live in interesting times.
E.R. writes...
And I trust yer grillin' on some kind of digital grill, and not with an open flame!
Now to say that without providing a link to where I can get one is just downright wrong.
And I trust yer grillin' on some kind of digital grill, and not with an open flame!
Now to say that without providing a link to where I can get one is just downright wrong.
# posted by : 11:42 AM
: 11:42 AM
Re, "The weather profile is fighteningly similar ot 1930."
Kind got that sense myself. I happened to be reading -- and have now finished -- Timothy Egan's "The Worst Hard Time," history of those who stayed behind in the Dust Bowl. Excellent, excellent piece of historical writing.
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Kind got that sense myself. I happened to be reading -- and have now finished -- Timothy Egan's "The Worst Hard Time," history of those who stayed behind in the Dust Bowl. Excellent, excellent piece of historical writing.
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