Multi Car Pileup on I-44 in Oklahoma

Fox News ^ | 02-23-03 | chantal7

[Osage Orange]

I'm about 15 miles as the crow flies from the KS border...in Osage Co. OK. We have at least 12-18 inches on the ground...with drifts to 36 inches...with very light snow still falling as I type.

FRegards,

[jbstrick]

10 inches here in Ponca City (North-central Ok)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You said it! When we moved to PA we got the same insulting comments about Southerners not being able to drive on snow...... last winter we had a freak snowstorm during the day that stranded hundreds of cars along the highway..... it took my neighbor over 7 hours to get home (less than 30 miles) ........ seems those snow plows and salt sure do help with driving skills.......lol

[savedbygrace]

I'm east of you OO, and we've got about the same. I took a yeardstick out in the front yard and stuck it down in a half-dozen places a couple of hours ago while it was still snowing. It measured over 12 inches in all of them.

It seems to have stopped now. I hope that's all of it. We're about out of food in the house and there's no way we can travel in this. They don't plow the neighborhood streets, just the main roads.

[annyokie]

Isn't that the truth! When I moved to PA ten years ago from San Diego, I got laughed at about driving in the snow. Guess what? I never even had a fender-bender because I knew when to slow down! People in the east are the worst drivers in the world, IMO.

[Conservababe]

I am sick to death of this winter. When I first see a jonquil coming up (I don't care in whose yard) I am going to kneel down and thank the Lord.

When I moved to Southeast Missouri in the late seventies, I did not know anyone or the weather. I was assured by new friends that it never ever snowed in February. On February 24th, it snowed 24 inches eight hours.

And for the next ten or so years, it snowed and iced, a lot. I remember trying to crawl up a hill on snow and ice trying to get to a main street for a ride to work.

Then, for the next ten or so years we had extremely mild winters. One year it did not even snow at all.

So now, this winter has been dreadfully awful to bear, I tell you.

The older folks always told me that extreme weather is in cycles of seven to ten years, and then reversed. Is this true?

[rwfromkansas]

Okla is having a pretty bad snowstorm today.

[PhiKapMom]

Here in Norman, about 12 miles south of OKC, we have absolutely no snow! So many times since moving up here from Texas we have seen snow stay above I-240.

Heard that roads were really treacherous the farther you went north and NE of OKC!

It really isn't the drivers here as much as the fact we don't have the equipment for snow removal. At least here in the OKC area, I haven't noticed bad drivers in the snow even though people like to say that. They are actually worse on sunny days IMO!

[PhiKapMom]

Come to Norman, OK. I have crocus and jonquils blooming in my yard.

[savedbygrace]

Of course, there is always the experience factor. Drivers who don't get the opportunity to practice driving in snow won't be as skilled as those who do.

But you're right about the city snow removal equipment. Cities here just don't have as much, and don't order as much sand, as cities in more snowy parts of the country.

[ChemistCat]

It's the red-light-running that is worst here, with following too close in second place. I don't see speeding or other kinds of reckless driving as much in OK as I did in South Carolina or Florida. However, I wish the people here would learn a little physics. Wet roads are not dry roads! They need to slow down when the coefficients of friction decrease!

[Warriormom]

I'm a Texas girl who was in PA a few years ago. What I found out was that since we Southern folk don't usually have snow plows to bail us out, we are actually better snow drivers. We Texans even know how to drive on ice! Bottom line is that I think we have a healthy respect for the stuff. (I include Oklahoman's in the same category as Texans)

[battlegearboat]

The ones who are having trouble driving here in Oklahoma are the newly arrived refugees from Kalifornia.

No work here for you folks; so just move it along.

[PhiKapMom]

Don't forget stop sign running as well. I got plowed in the rear of my car when someone ran the stop sign coming out on the access road next to Taca Cabana here in Norman. The guy never stopped and did almost $3000 damage to the back of my Taurus. Then he says you don't need to call the cops! Yeah right! Immediately dialed 911!

Ended up with a shoulder injury from the seat belt but not wearing one would have been a lot worse!

It was a bright sunny day -- no precipitation!

[PhiKapMom]

The only place I usually see sand here in Norman is on the overpasses and main roads. Side streets take forever to get cleared -- usually melts first!

[Willie Green]

When we moved to PA we got the same insulting comments about Southerners not being able to drive on snow......

Even if you have snow, there'd be an assumption that you couldn't handle it because you're basicly a flatlander. (I know it's not necessarily true, but that would be the assumption.)

[tal hajus]

A post from a fellow Groveite!!!

Are you ready for the summer traffic?

[Magnolia]

Here in Enid we've got anywhere from 6"-8" of the junk and the drifts are measured in feet. Schools in the area have already announced cancellations for tomorrow. My koi pond looks beautiful though!

[rwfromkansas]

I envy you......we just got 3 inches up here in central KS.

[rwfromkansas]

Today was perhaps the best snowstorm of the year...but still a max of 4 inches for my area (I am estimating 3 though). The only reason it tops the previous 3 incher (which came way back in December) was that this one included lots of drifting.

I am not ready for winter to be over until I see at least 6 inches in one storm...winter is just not the same without that happening at least once. This winter has been extremely dry.