Volume 8 , Issue 48

Alva's Snow Storm - 11/30/2006

The end of November 2006 made a dramatic exit from the State, Thursday, November 30, 2006. As you can partially see in this view of the Alva water tower on the west edge of town.

During the Thursday snowstorm that was blowing through Oklahoma, particularly around Perry, Oklahoma, one of our readers saw a guy riding a 3-wheeler up and down the street!

Roy says, "It's time to get out the sleds and play. That reminds me, I have a couple of them in my warehouse and this would be a good time to stick them in a display window FOR SALE!"

On this last Thursday Roy mentioned, "Alva's weather is worse than ours here in Perry, but we may get it yet. There were a few small snow flakes beginning about 7:30 to 8 A.M. but lots of wind, which started blowing hard yesterday (Wednesday) morning, and it's still about 30 to 40 mph. Then the snow became gradually heavier until there was a 'whiteout' about 10:15 A.M. BUT... now (at 11 A.M.) the flakes are tiny again and visibility is about 1-1/2 to 2 blocks (maximum)."

We also hear that it was quite a dramatic change from the 80 degrees they had just a couple of days before. All area schools and universities were closed (from southwest Oklahoma to northeast) for about a 50 mile strip diagonally, in the general direction of -- following the H. E. Bailey and Turner Turnpikes (I-44) right on up through southwest Missouri and towards Chicago.

We understand that the towns and cities to the south of Guthrie received freezing rain and sleet first. Several had lost power during this November 2006 snow storm with power going off several times through the night and thursday morning around Duncan, Oklahoma.

On Thursday, Roy was saying, "We're still expecting 4 to 6 inches of snow (total) out of this storm but some cities north of here and north of Tulsa are expecting (perhaps) 9 inches to 15 inches! If we had some hills to climb you could ski Oklahoma this time. Our wind chill may also reach 2 or 3 degrees but hasn't yet so far as I know."

11/30/2006 Alva Snow Storm. In the middle of the backyard (our Alva Home on Maple Street) where it didn't drift the snow measured in at 6-inches. Around the the back porch of our Maple Street home, in Alva, where it tends to catch the drifts of blowing snow, it measured in at 25-inches.
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