All of us love a good thunderstorm and severe weather gets us really excited. We all love to watch Val Caster chase the tornado's and shout, "WE HAVE DEBRIS!!!" Gary England is a God, we all love him. Springtime really is a lot of fun here.
I want everyone in Oklahoma to make a mental note: Please don't go on the news talking about the storm that took out your grille. Don't let them film you saying how scared you were and how it sounded like a freight train. You make the rest of us look like idiots. You can't even fix your hair before you go on camera? Please. Just skip it. It always turns out bad. "I sawl it! It wuz headed right fer us. I tole Momma to get down in thu cellur!! But I wanted to get it on the cam corder so I could give it to Gary."
I can't even watch storm chasing and storm footage anymore. BLM is obsessed with "the cold air mixing with the hot". She asks me almost every other day if the cold air is mixing with the hot. The wind blows and she wants to know if the cold is mixing with the hot. Thank you, Kindergarten, for putting my daughter in the boys bathroom during the tornado drill. Yes, it is necessary but it sure conjured up a lot of questions and concerns at my house. We can't talk about anything JUST ONE TIME. We have to have ongoing discussion about every single topic. It doesn't matter what the topic is, we have to talk about it 16 times and in 16 different ways. It makes me tired.
Looks like we made it through the day without any "official" tornado action. Too bad. I really would have come home to watch the coverage. It's fun.
EDITED TO ADD:
5-11-08
We went to Soldier Creek on Lake Texoma this weekend. The marina suffered some tornado damage a few weeks ago, and the "debris" is still in the water. It is a twisted wreck of a boat dock, with boats upside down under the water. Since the Big Lil Mama was with us, we had to refer to it as "wind damage" so that she did not hear the T-Word.
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Quote from a Mississippi tornado victim on a very popular national cable network:
"My house was completely defecated."
Seriously. You think you've got it bad. This is humiliation at its best because people already think we're uneducated. Geez.
The woman didn't even realize the word was not the one she was trying to communicate.
Afro, that's bad. But it's funny. I think we should integrate "defecated" into our vocab.
I am in West Siloam Springs, and we got hit pretty hard last Friday morning with straight line winds. Of course the worst of the destruction happened in the trashies trailor park in town. It is also called "Choice" trailor park. I think ABC news went thru the park and picked the most uneducated person to be interviewed for the evening news.
We rarely get Tornadoes here, and we're not supposed to have Okie accents, but I SWEAR whenever we do, it's the exact same scenario you described.
And LOL at BLM wondering how the air is mixing. Maybe she'll be a weather girl! Thanks for the giggle at work. :)
Oh hell. Remember the days of watching the 'does that came every.other.day in Ada? I remember my dad standing outside watching the one that hit The Brook.
And I too am a Gary Girl and LOVE Val Caster and his debris. Have you heard the Gary England song on 98.9? Holy hell it's a riot. It says "Jump back Loretta" about a million times.
I miss Gary and Val. I miss thunder and lightning. I miss tornadoes.
I miss seeing those ungroomed ratty-haired women on tv wearing their common-law husband/live-in boyfriend's muscle shirt with the big armholes and no bra.
Living the Northwest sucks sometimes.
I saw a lady being interviewed this morning and I was thinking "God Love Her... maybe that tornado took her make-up and hair products away."
Holly-
I am liking your new siggy on OBBC.
Do y'all have tornado sirens near your house?
I haven't lived in Oklahoma for 8 looooong years. I'd almost forgotten about tornadoes...you brought it all back to me in about 30 seconds. God bless you, Haulleeeee. I was having a really f'ed up day until I visited your blog. Now it's tornadoey-licious. Yay.
I live in Tulsa and I HATE the 'wicked weather' *that's what good ol' Travis Myer calls it here*. They cut into my favorite shows, then replay them at weird times and my DVR doesn't pick them up. My call in complaints do nothing, something about the safety of the state??
I like your blog, I came over from the Closet. I have a Dr. in Tulsa who will prescribe what you want (from your other post). But girl, you have got to learn how to spell your meds/alcohol!
Love this post-in TN, we have lots of people on the local news saying, "it sounded like a freight train coming down the hallway." Gotta love local news. Afro, too funny about the house being defecated!
A California Girl here....I think a tornado would make me mess my pants! Give me an earthquake any day to "surf". I am an expert at duck and cover though. Does that knowledge transfer?
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