[PhiKapMom]

We didn't even have a tornado touch down here in the month of May in the whole state -- set a record. We have a place to go -- that said there is an old Indian legend that the buffalo all gathered in a buffalo wallow at the river on the westside of Norman whenever there was bad weather and protects the town of Norman. Legend or not, Norman, knock on wood, has never been hit by a major tornado or much of anything until you get south of HWY 9 or out by the lake and even then they have been small tornadoes.

North of us about five miles, tornadoes from the southwest go into Moore right at the knee of the river -- three major ones since we have lived here BTW.

I will take my chances here with a tornado since Norman is home to the National Weather Center and Storms Prediction Center which means we get all the new equipment for warning, etc. There is plenty of advance notice as well for people to take action as the storms are tracked minute by minute.

[Coldwater Creek]

My Husband is from the city. He loves to tell about when he was a little boy,on the day that Roosevelt died, there was a major fire at Tinker and a devastating tornado all in one afternoon. He was at home alone as his mother was at work at Tinker and he

had his little radio on and was hearing all of the news. He said it was the most frighting day of his life ever.

His brother lives out off of I40 and Choctaw and they are subject to wild fires a lot.