The deep thoughts and life philosophy of sumsoonerchick

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#328
SumSoonerChick said:
Sit outside and watch the show… 😜
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That's no joke. When I was in Abilene (NW corner of Taylor Co), you could sit on an upper apartment balcony and watch twisters drop 45 minutes out in the same dang county, and not a cloud over you. We were on one balcony and a twister came over and dropped on hte other side of I-20 and rolled on. That West TX weather was weird. Blizzards in February, and very next day in the 70's and sittin by the pool. There were like 27 twisters in Taylor county one day, and none even close to us in town. But, we could see funnels bounding like jumping beans.

I think one reason weather was so weird in town was Abilene sat NE of Dyess AFB. All the hot air drafts from the monstrous tarmac at the AFB would literally split the storms and skirt the city on both sides.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
I've been twice to Oklahoma. One was driving through on way to Tempe after 98 season. I remember the hotel in Elk City had it where you could put quarters in for the bed to vibrate.

The other time was visiting some of spouse's family who lived between Norman and the TX/OK border. They had a shelter but no tornadoes.
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I think you can draw a line right along the I-35 north and south, and 98% of the state population is east of that.

My observations as a teen and young adult when I was a road warrior travelling to school and such (being single):

*My exposure to pine trees seems to be illegal west of Dallas
*The wind never stops blowing in West TX.
*Don't run out of gas in Texarkana (TX or AR). Not being able to decide what state a city is in really eff's it up.
*Montana is the bomb. I don't care what anyone says. Except the locals. They don't mind telling you to have a good time, but don't get comfy.
*Utah only looked good coming in on the plane.
*A hidden steak "barn" in a one block Montana ghost town had the best steak I've ever eaten.
*It's really hot in the Arizona desert on a lonely highway between the border an I-10 when you're dumb enough to take a girlfriend you'll never see again home to Long Beach, and your car overheats.
*Yuma ?! Who forces you to live in eff'ing Yuma ?!
*I don't know why they have state boundaries out west. It all looks the same.
*There is a whole lot of nothing running up the middle of the country. A lot of missing people can probably be found there.
 
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Winter break 1976, I was among six students carpooling west. Two of us were stopping in Colorado. The others were headed to Wyoming. We traveled through Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and the northeast corner of New Mexico. We traveled through Oklahoma and Texas in the dark. When dawn broke, I was driving. Sunlight touched the tops of the Spanish peaks. The world was dark. The sky was turning from black to purple, and seeming to float in the sky were the sun kissed tops of the Spanish peaks. The grad student seated in front at the passenger side door lit up a joint. The smell was pungent.
 
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