The worst of the storms passed to the south of us. Funny thing about living in Oklahoma – if you live in Oklahoma and have a blog or post on message boards you have to post something the day after a big storm whether you have anything to say or not because if you don’t everyone who’s been in the habit of reading your nonsense will worry that you have died.
Another funny thing – whenever there is a storm or other event anywhere in your state that makes the national news people outside your state think of it as happening to the whole state. They see horrifying footage of one flattened trailer park and think that’s what most of the state looks like. I don’t think any of last night’s storms were bad enough to make the national news but the local stations acted like it was an End Of The World event as usual with non-stop, uninterrupted coverage.
So anyway… just another day in Flyover Country.

May 20th, 2010 - 12:53 pm
What *is* it about tornadoes and trailer camps?
May 20th, 2010 - 3:47 pm
Peter – Mobile homes are notorious for being poorly built, especially older ones. A tornado that would cause some damage to a regular house would turn a trailer house into a pile of kindling, therefore, the news people know the trailer park is the best place to go for good disaster footage.
May 21st, 2010 - 1:43 pm
Not only are they poorly made, they aren’t secured to the ground as well as a normal house. So you get nice vids of them rolling over and over as they blow away.