Posted on 01/01/2006 4:38:15 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe
Breaking on CNN live right now.
Aaaawwwww. Every little OklaTex girl has to have good boots! Miss Enid loved Nocona and didn't want to move to FtWorth. And thus, the world got to choose between Justins and Noconas till sometime in recent years, when they became one, once again.
My farm is just a few miles from where you live. I've never seen it this dry, although 1980 came close.
That drought broke with a nice 10 inch rain the last weekend in September. Ten inches, no runoff, just absorbed fully and gratefully by a parched land.
North or South 50th. From other descriptions I would think North. South would be right by Tinker AFB, and near the offices of the company I work for, although not at that location anymore.
ROFLMAO at your characterization of our lovely Katrina evacuees. On a more sobering note, our neighbors were shooting off fireworks into the air tonight. I know I've said this before, but why couldn't the county close the fireworks stands these past two weeks?
There are two 50th and Sooner intersections. One North, One South. South is near Tinker AFB's western boundary. North is 100 blocks, about 7 1/2 miles, north of there. This appears to be North, from other descriptions, and that agrees with your I-35 and I-44 intersection.
Probably because it's a minimum $250 fine, right into their pockets if you just drive back into HarrisCo with anything at all in your car. Depending on how much you bought, it can be $$1000s. Don't ask me how I know this. :}
And hey, we won the "Bush Bowl" today! One reason I was a little embarrassed at our being "Texan of the Year" - who wants to claim our sorryazz football team? They played their hearts out for the CELLAR so they could draft Reggie Bush! We need some of those NOLA Saints' fans' "unknown fan" paper bags for our heads.
Fireworks have always been illegal here in the city, but last night was the first time that I have not heard any on a New Year's eve.
I second that!!
Not quite, part of the west boundry of the base is Sooner Road, but that far south it's a bit farther east than sooner. (just barely to about 47th, Sooner remains the boundry) However as someone else has pointed out, there is no S 50th at Sooner, 48th runs just south of the base on the east side of Sooner, but only for a few blocks. The south boundary of the base is pretty "ragged" at that point. You'd be amazed at what strategically important assets are just on the other side of that ragged boundary. But I'm not going to say what they are.
Need some of that rain from California and yes I guess I need to water the slab soon too.
I read earlier here on FR that one county in TX had a $5K reward for turning in anyone shooting or doing fireworks !
You okay? I had no idea it has been as dry as it has been down south. Here we are starting to be pretty dry as well, so things may spread to the north.
I'm south of you in Killeen. Plenty dry here too. Folks in the neighborhood setting off fireworks last night made me really cringe. However they did not use any bottle rockets, the aerial ones were star shell types that burn out completely in the air, and if they set of firecrackers, they did so on driveways and the street. Not much wind here at midnight either, and I guess we dodged the bullet, for now.
Actually, that was my post and it's a reward offered for turning in someone who shoots off a GUN on New Year's Eve. Problem is, to get the reward, you have to have info enough for an arrest and conviction. That's usually impossible, unless you're with the perp.
Wish they'd had it in OKC when I lived there; could've collected on that one!
That is how national news needs to cover breaking news like this....use LOCAL reporters.
They live in the area and know how best to report the story.
A quick search turned up the top 3 in land area:
Sitka, Alaska 2874 square miles (took the record in 2000)
Juneau, Alaska 2717 square miles (record holder 1970 -2000)
Jacksonville, FL 758 square miles (largest in lower 48)
OKC is fairly small, at only 607 sq mi
Damn cheatin' Alaskans! Cain't never trust them suckers!
Please send the Fires to Detroit. It needs a good cleaning.
"At least a dozen wildfires were burning across Oklahoma. In Texas, more than 20 fires sprang up, including a 22,400-acre blaze threatening 200 homes near Carbon, about 125 miles west of Dallas. [Update: three homes had been destroyed by evening]
Crews flying over the Texas communities of Ringgold, a town of about 100 people near Wichita Falls, and tiny Kokomo, near Eastland, reported both had essentially been wiped out by flames, officials said. ....
Carbon is just northeast of Cross Plains, where more than 90 homes and a church were destroyed in a raging grass fire last week.
"We just took up money for the folks in Cross Plains at church this morning, never thinking it would be us in just three hours," said Mallory Fagan ...
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Another news story said Ringgold only had 100 population. I can't believe that--thought it was a more thriving community. It used to be one of our stops on our frequent trips to "grandma's" in OK from SE TX.
A favorite part (because it was a break in the scenery) was the stretch from Bowie to Ringgold, where there were large fruit stands all along both sides of the road, which had grown to nice enclosed markets by the last time I drove through there.
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