Oklahoma Weather Tips (Humor)

e-mail | 5-20-03

[I'm ALL Right!]

I had a friend who used to hide under her bed any time there was a sprinkle. (She moved here from California.) I guess we're just used to it!

[I'm ALL Right!]

Anyone out there know how to ping the Oklahoma crowd? I'd certainly appreciate it if you could (if it's not difficult.)

[UnklGene]

Thanks for the weather tips!

[DallasMike]

Anyone out there know how to ping the Oklahoma crowd?

Sure, just stand on the back porch and yell "Soooowwwwweeeee!"

[I'm ALL Right!]

Bump for Oklahomans

[I'm ALL Right!]

Wow, if'n I had pigs, or if'n any of my kin or neighbor-folk had any hogs, that might work.

[sam_paine]

Anyone out there know how to ping the Oklahoma crowd? I'd certainly appreciate it if you could (if it's not difficult.)

It's not difficult. But you'll have to print this article out and get a bunch of envelopes.......

[honeygrl]

I'm about an hour east of Atlanta, GA and we get a few tornado warnings here every spring a few in the fall usually too and I don't care how many we have I will never get use to it. I've lived here all my life and my parents actually had a company build a storm shelter at her house just because tornadoes freak me out so badly. One year we had one close enough that I could hear it going by a couple miles away and I really thought I would die from a heart attack before anything got near us.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Wow! I've been in OK for 32 years and have NEVER had one come even CLOSE to me. (just knocked on some wood...)

[MizSterious]

Ping!

[dljordan]

My grandmother was terrified of thunderstorms. Every time the sky got dark she would drag me down to the storm shelter with the damn spiders and all the mold and mildew and stay for HOURS! Finally she got a fallout shelter built (this was the early 60's) but for her it was a deluxe model storm shelter with BEDS!

[dljordan]

I got caught in the tornado the hit Nashville, Tn. in 99'. I was on the interstate downtown and saw a funny little swirling cloud and the next thing I know WHAM! signs were falling over, trashcans were flying by and the thing picked my truck up and moved it over three lanes. I floored that sucker and got away but you couldn't have driven a nail up my butt with a sledge hammer! Many beers that night.

[I'm ALL Right!]

"...but you couldn't have driven a nail up my butt with a sledge hammer!"

ROTFLMBO!

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Sure, just stand on the back porch and yell "Soooowwwwweeeee!"

That would attract the Razorbacks from Arkansas but they could probably hear it in Oklahoma, too. They would just ignore it.

[honeygrl]

"Wow! I've been in OK for 32 years and have NEVER had one come even CLOSE to me. (just knocked on some wood...) "

The sound they make is the most eerie noise you'll ever hear.

[honeygrl]

"My grandmother was terrified of thunderstorms."

I'm that way too. My nanny told me a story when I was little about a lady who died on the toilet when lightening struck and I've been terrified to pee during a storm ever since. Can lightening go through windows? I hear conflicting answers to that so never let my kids watch storms through our sliding glass door.

[Humal]

Ditto!! :-))

[jonascord]

And then you have to send them to the Dallas Post Office, who will toss the envelopes out the window with the expectation that someone headed North will eventually pick them up...

[honeygrl]

My silly hubby has no fear of tornadoes or hurricanes. He grew up near Clearwater, FL and actually went out in one of the worst hurricanes they had there back in the 90's to a bar to hang out. He's 6' tall and over 250Lbs and said the wind was so strong he almost couldn't walk. The time the tornado went close enough to hear from my mom's house he and my dad were standing outside on the porch with it hailing while me and my brother were UNDER the house. You would think a man in his 50's and a man in his 30's would have more sense... guess not.

[TXBubba]

You are lucky and you better be knocking on wood. I grew up in OK. We really did stand outside and watch the "little" tornados in the sky...NOT those on the ground. My folks have been at the tail end of both the F5 in 1999 and the latest one. Now THAT is really lucky!