April 23, 2022
Down here in Fort Worth, it’s only just way windy-er that it freakin’ needs to be for about the last week or ten days. Up in Oklahoma, though, they’ve got that classic big storm pattern that actually starts around Vernon Texas, goes up through Lawton, right up the I-44 Turnpike up through Chickasha, Norman, Moore, sometimes cuts through Oklahoma City, or veers around it over through Shawnee, up the Turner Turnpike, through or around Tulsa, and up into Bartlesville. It’s the most bizarre thing to watch on radar - it looks like it’s moving East-ish, but it just keeps boiling up right where it is, for HOURS.
We’ve seen this before, and more than once, that same pattern, the Vernon (or sometimes Wichita Falls, but tonight it’s Vernon’s turn) to Bartlesville Express. This one looks like it’s on an all-night bender, too. It came across where my son lives earlier, but I think it’s done there, and he’s okay. Looks like my next sister is okay for now, too, but my youngest sister, her fam, and our Dad are still in the stalled path of weather. Thankfully they have a nice, stout storm shelter if it comes to that.
I went out to the WWW to find the LIVE weather coverage I knew there would be (and of course there was), and just couldn’t tear myself away from it for a couple of hours! Weather Porn! And, man, do those guys get wound up when they’re doing LIVE weather coverage! Looks like they’ll also be doing an all-nighter.
We’ve seen this before, and more than once, that same pattern, the Vernon (or sometimes Wichita Falls, but tonight it’s Vernon’s turn) to Bartlesville Express. This one looks like it’s on an all-night bender, too. It came across where my son lives earlier, but I think it’s done there, and he’s okay. Looks like my next sister is okay for now, too, but my youngest sister, her fam, and our Dad are still in the stalled path of weather. Thankfully they have a nice, stout storm shelter if it comes to that.
I went out to the WWW to find the LIVE weather coverage I knew there would be (and of course there was), and just couldn’t tear myself away from it for a couple of hours! Weather Porn! And, man, do those guys get wound up when they’re doing LIVE weather coverage! Looks like they’ll also be doing an all-nighter.
So we were watching David Payne of KWTV9, in his element, with that red and green Doppler Radar, pointing out the hooks that indicate tornadic rotation, crews out on the road, looking for tornadoes in the dark now, when Mr. Bowers related an epiphany he had when he moved to Fort Worth from Oklahoma City.
He said, “It didn’t take me long, after I moved here to observe that, in Oklahoma City, continuous weather coverage on a night like this is like watching a Big Broadway Production, whereas the coverage anywhere else is more like a watching a little community theater.”
I was finally able to turn off the continuous coverage out of Oklahoma City, and am this moment struggling against the urge to turn it back on for “just one more look.” Weather Porn can be consuming and hard to resist.
Anyway, I wish you a Peaceful Evening, wherever you are, and I pray the Most Benevolent Outcome for my beloved Okies who are in the path, or the midst, of that Vernon-to-Bartlesville freight train of a storm tonight. Be safe, friends.
Blessings
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