Thoughts on living in Tulsa, OK

In My Humble Opinion
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Had one miss my place by about a mile and a half - while family and I were at neighbor’s tornado shelter ready to duck in if need be. Just this morning I drove up I-44 Turnpike from Chickasha area and saw what (storm-chaser verified, fwiw) multiple ‘local’ funnels can do to things. For a few miles just north of Tollbooth near Newcastle/Tuttle, in several ‘strips’, EVERYTHING was torn apart, caught in fences that were blown down…a few trailer-homes were pushed off the road (at least what remained of them, that is). I saw several semis ripped to shreds on roadside, etc, etc… Some areas got over 9" of rain rather fast - hard to imagine so much water, and radar shows a lot more ready to fall, ugh.

Probably observation bias, but where I live is where so many of the 'nados that head to Tulsa area originate. They seem to just march right up I-44 or thereabouts.

Just today/tonight there is/was more HEAVY rainfall yet again, with multiple wetherguys saying the next two days will be, most likely, funnel-likely producing weather. Just did not get quite warm enough today to get the updraft going, but lots of downdraft (windy!) I have never seen the Candian River at the level it was today as I crossed it. There were literally rapids I wished I could’ve ridden upon (from white-watering in Idaho for years) due to so much rainfall. Its been really harsh weather…and the summers DO get over 100 regularly, and for seemingly endess periods. When in Army in Lawton, a lot of training gets put off if temp is around 100, and its taken into account overall as it is so predictable.

I know from personal friends that a lot of Tulsans/Tulsa does noy consider itself not really part of Oklahoma, but ‘Tulsa, America’. HUGE difference between Tulsa and other areas, IME. But just my opinion.

Balance: Tuttle is nowhere near Tulsa, fwiw. Its a bit SW of OKC. All animals recovered safely, so I heard.

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Animals are all in, yep. A friend of mine’s aunt lost her house down in Tuttle.

Not Tulsa, but part of the same general year to year pattern. Only Qs are usually about what quadrant of the state will the really severe storms fire up. And, why am I in Moore? (if in Moore)

Some years, it’s Lawton, some OKC, some Tulsa.

Right now, another long afternoon of severe weather in the SW to NE OKC metro.

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I am aware of that, actually, having been around the Tulsa area a good bit. I just couldn’t resist the jokes. (And hey, once you’ve got your bad sci-fi movie gimmick, the distance involved is no object. :D)

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Closer to Tulsa than Massachusetts is! :stuck_out_tongue:

Seriously, tho, it does seem that this I-44 corridor of Oklahoma is a real storm magnet. Some years, it IS Tulsa. In fact, a couple of months ago, it WAS Tulsa. Right now, it’s Moore/Norman again.

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I don’t know the name, just that it’s one of those weird End Times churches. If you find one whose leader is a white man in his late 50s who grew up in West Texas, then that’s probably him.