Living in Oklahoma
Just suppose for a moment that you have lost all memory of where you are. It doesn’t matter how this happened — maybe you were hit on the head, or perhaps you overindulged on Oprah reruns.
How do you tell where you are?
Here’s my favorite method:
- Wait for a tornado warning to hit and the storm sirens to sound.
- Run outside your front door.
- If everyone on your block has also run outside and is looking in the direction of the oncoming tornado, you’re in Oklahoma.
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Another sign is when a tornado is coming, your family is stuffed in the bathtub, and your Dad is standing outside. Oklahoma and Tornadoes. They go hand in hand.
Arkansas, your close neighbor, has some of the same signs…..But some of the dunces here also take their cameras and camcorders with them, and talk like absolute hicks in the background as they film the tornado coming toward them. Now which home video do you think the Weather Channel and the Learning Channel will choose to publicize umpteen times…….The idjit hick’s, or the professional storm spotter from Pennsylvania with the generic accent? Congratulations, you win the booby prize!
People seriously do that here, too. I live in an apartment complex, and it’s not unusual to look out when a warning is issued and see 5 or 6 people gathered on the parking lot looking at the clouds. Even worse–These apartments are for elderly and handicapped only…..So we’re talking about Senior citizens for the most part. Dips are dips not matter where they dip, LOL.
I do it when the tornado is in El Reno, and the siren is going off in Oklahoma CIty
Extra points for someone in the group pointing out “That stormchaser’s full of crap; the circulation’s over THERE!”
You know we’ve had too many tornadoes when we start outguessing the stormchasers.
It’s amazing how we can drop terms like wall cloud, circulation, and hook echo into conversations without anyone so much as waggling an eyebrow.
Of course, we also make regular use of terms like whoop-ass, so I try not to read too much into it.
We have the same kinds of conversations here, tornado terms and all, it’s a part of living in tornado alley, I suppose.
Our “whoop ass” usually comes in cans—-What containers does it come in there in OK?
It’s rumble time if someone threatens to open up a can of that stuff here. LOL 
“Whoop-ass” is what tornadoes do to people and property here, even though there are those who feel like the watching tornadoes from the safety of the front porch is some how not stupid.
We know all about tornadoes here, too. Check out some of these pics. This was only about 15 miles or so from where I live. It’s much worse than it looks in the pics. Only about 10% of the towns buildings had no damage. Most were completely destroyed or damaged beyond repair. It got the city hall and schools, too. Sad, and there were a few deaths and several injuries, too. Life goes on, though. Just a part of living in tornado alley. Here’s the link if it works:
http://ryansmorningblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/pray-for-marmaduke.html
There are a few more pics of the tornadoes in the post before this one.