The Okie Legacy: From Tornadoes To Snow

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Volume 10 , Issue 21

2008

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From Tornadoes To Snow

Some of us have been panting like a short-nosed Pug in this warm, humid Oklahoma Spring climate. Other two legged creatures have experienced the itchy eye syndromes of the weed/tree pollens that are high around northwest Oklahoma this time of year.

It was early last Monday, May 19, that we left the cool, dry air of SW Colorado and headed East towards NW Oklahoma. Arriving in Alva early that same evening after about 12 hours of driving following hwy 160 through Colorado, Kansas and picking up hwy 34 to the eastside of Buffalo, OK and catching Hwy 64 on into Alva, OK.

While this NW Okie was in Alva this week, a lady I asked me while we were taking our evening meal at the Alva Bowl Cafe, if I had run across anything on a 1924 fire at Whitehorse, Oklahoma that killed a person.

If anyone out there has any information or memories of this Whitehorse fire of '24, please contact NW Okie at mcwagner.lk@gmail.com or Helen Barrett at the Alva Review Courier. Thanks for any help that might shed some light on this story!

Towards mid-week, little did we know that strong winds would hit through Northwest Oklahoma and scattered tree limbs and destroy farm sheds a few days before the Tornadoes kept the Oklahoma weathermen busy broadcasting warnings and pictures of wall clouds spotted around Kingfisher county, Hennessey and headed NE up through the Southeast parts of Garfield County, near Enid, OK.

Roy sent us some storm information from around the Perry, OK area that occurred Saturday, May 24 and into the earlier morning hours.

We did get about 9-tenths inch of rain out at Fairvalley, OK Thursday night. Haven't checked the rain gauge since then, though.

It is about that time of year, though, isn't it? The golden shades of Wheat are just beginning to appear as it begins its ripening journey towards "Harvest Time" in these parts. The pastures have taken on a nice coat of lucious, thick green tint with the moisture they have received around here.

Meanwhile... back in the SW Colorado Rockies, in the higher elevations, they have received 4 to 7 inches of snow. Some mountain friends sent me a snapshot of the May 24, 2008 snowfall that occurred.
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