Volume 9 , Issue 34

Last Sunday when we left Northwestern Oklahoma, little did we know that tropical storm Erin would be soaking southern and central Oklahoma with record flooding, rain from tropical storm Erin. Who will get the aftermath of tropical storm Dean?

Yep! It was an historical record for Oklahoma last Sunday with the aftermath of tropical storm Erin. We hear that central parts of Oklahoma were getting record amounts of rainfall, flooding last Sunday, August 26, 2007.

When we left northwest Oklahoma just a couple hours before high noon, it was sunny, warmer than the day before. The day before, Saturday afternoon, in Northwest Oklahoma, the temps were considerably cooler, cloudy. That Saturday evening at the last night of the Freedom rodeo we only got a few tiny sprinkles in the northwest during the evening rodeo while Kingfisher and other central towns were being flooded by rising creeks. We understand that Kingfisher's flooding even reached North to the Pioneer building with 3 feet water-line on the building.

Last Saturday's cool days in the Northwest part of the state was a great reprieve from the "Dog Days of Summer." Thank goodness our creeks were not flooded with tropical storm Erin.

We shall leave you here with the war cry of 1905 that many Oklahomans were boosting for Oklahoma's statehood

"Rah, rah, rah! for Oklahoma we are;
We shine at home, we shine afar;
We will add to the flag the brightest star --
Rah, rah, rah! for Oklahoma we are!"
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