Everybody stay on guard this afternoon and night.

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

DRC458

Sharpshooter
Supporting Member
Special Hen Supporter
Joined
Mar 1, 2006
Messages
11,903
Reaction score
11,545
Location
Enid, OK.
We're 8 miles N/W of Bristow off Hwy 16. Texted my parents a pic of the radar of the storm coming in from the West. Seemed like it was between Chandler and Stroud. Told them got about 45 minutes before it gets to us. It wasn't but 15 minutes and all hell broke loose. Was the hardest rain and lightening storm I've ever seen. Was really worried about our "second home compound" that consists of a newer mobile home, 20x50 RV carport, detached 2 car garage, 12x16 shed and 6x6x8 well house. I figured it was all gone or blown over. Some how it all survived without any damage. I have my 24 cargo trailer in the RV carport with a couple other vehicle we are storing for friends this summer. By trailer blew off its wooden trailer tongue support and shifted and came within a foot of our friends Tacoma.

We did have two real big blackjack oaks blow over and a large limb of another bigger blackjack break off in our pasture. I guess I'll get some good wood out of them. Bristow's power was out so went up to Cushing to find a cafe and their power was out too. One cafe had its own power on and it was BUSY. Really good breakfast though. Very interesting night to say the least.


Welcome to Oklahoma!!!
 

Shinneryfarmer

Sharpshooter
Supporting Member
Special Hen Supporter
Joined
Oct 10, 2020
Messages
2,916
Reaction score
12,211
Location
Western Oklahoma

SoonerP226

Sharpshooter
Special Hen
Joined
Jan 1, 2013
Messages
14,378
Reaction score
15,868
Location
Norman
Most signal lights now days has a battery back up system and the lights will operate like normal for a certain length of time and then go into a flash til the batteries are completely dead and are recharged by some means.
This morning, the stoplights at the BA and Aspen were out, as were the lights at Aspen and Albany. When I just went through a few minutes ago, they were all working. Around 1pm, the only lights I saw working normally on 61st were at Garnett; the rest, from Aspen to 169, were either flashing red or out completely.

Kinda makes me wonder what kind of Charlie foxtrot it’s going to be around 5pm…
 

rickm

Sharpshooter
Special Hen
Joined
Aug 14, 2012
Messages
3,325
Reaction score
4,540
Location
Durant
We use to take generators around and charge the batteries up every so often but we never had as many to go down at one time like some of the bigger cities and usually they were back up after 4 hours except once had one down for 12 hours due to lines down and another for 16 hours due to truck wreck and burned all the wiring inside the pole so had to wait on a crew to arrive with new wiring and replace it and get everything wired in.
 

OKRuss

Sharpshooter
Special Hen
Joined
Jan 12, 2017
Messages
2,366
Reaction score
5,210
Location
Tuttle, OK
We use to take generators around and charge the batteries up every so often but we never had as many to go down at one time like some of the bigger cities and usually they were back up after 4 hours except once had one down for 12 hours due to lines down and another for 16 hours due to truck wreck and burned all the wiring inside the pole so had to wait on a crew to arrive with new wiring and replace it and get everything wired in.
Now you can take your generators around and charge all of the EVs that are dead! Gotta be a few Tesla owners saying "you mean I can't go anywhere?" Nope. If out of gas, get your buddy to bring you a can then drive to gas station. Good luck with your buddy bringing you a EV charger!
 

Perplexed

Sharpshooter
Supporting Member
Special Hen Supporter
Joined
Apr 7, 2009
Messages
16,309
Reaction score
11,965
Location
Tulsa
Now you can take your generators around and charge all of the EVs that are dead! Gotta be a few Tesla owners saying "you mean I can't go anywhere?" Nope. If out of gas, get your buddy to bring you a can then drive to gas station. Good luck with your buddy bringing you a EV charger!

In ten years, that will be less of an issue.
 

Latest posts

Top Bottom