Man, Oklahoma is getting punished, don't know what we've done.
Late Fall of last year we had the major ice storm.
Destroyed the city riding area and my track behind the shop, trees down everywhere. Then mid Winter we had the choking snow storm that shut the city down for 4 days. Power outages all over. About a month ago we had the giant hail storm. $13,000 damage to my house, holes through the roof and all the windows beat out on the North side of the house. 2 weeks ago a tornado came through the city riding area. 15 volunteers worked 7 hours the first day and only cleared 1 mile of track. This week they went though with chainsaws then ran the tractor pushing everything off of the track. You don't want to over run any of the turns because your crash zone is a mass of cut up trees, limbs and brush. I volunteered Sat. and worked 7 hours cutting face slappers and hanging limbs.
Now we come to the rain storm. From 4:30 this morning to 11:30 we got 10.5 inches of rain. The creek behind the shop is 20 foot deep. Most times it has 4 inches of water about 2 foot across. It dries up in the summer. It spilled out of the banks and washed away about 4 cords of my firewood. It's all over the lot next door. If there is a silver lining, it's the fact that I had not split it yet. I could only watch it float away. I moved my bus and my aluminum quad trailer or they would be gone. The mig welder, tools, steel shot and anything of value we put up on tables in the shop. The water got to the back edge of the shop but not high enough to get in. The deep pictures are after the rain had slowed and the water had receded about a foot. More rain in the forecast tonight and tomorrow. You have to give the firefighters and EMT's a thumbs up for all the people they rescued. I think they should be able to shoot the stupid people that got trapped in their cars because they drove into deep water. The whole storm system is headed up I- 44. Stewart get ready.
