Merry Belated Christmas/ Happy New Year

All:

Greetings from Oklahoma. As you have probably heard, we have had some snow this winter. On 23-24 December 2009,

Nearly a foot of snow fell on Christmas Eve through Christmas Day in the Lawton/Fort Sill, Oklahoma area on 23-25 DEC 09. In an area near the Texas border that usually sees around three inches of snow in an average winter, this created chaos. One of the main issues is that the snow was being blown into drifts as it fell. Therefore, there were locations in which patches of grass were visible between 5 foot high snowdrifts. This resulted in several roads being blocked for up to three days as road cuts were filled in by blowing snow. With few dedicated snowplows available, tractors, front-end loaders, bucket loaders and road graders were pressed into service to clear the snow. Churches cancelled their Christmas Eve services; some churches were then used as shelters for stranded travelers. Four days later, things were finally getting back to normal. The numerous cars abandoned along the roads were recovered by their owners; or at least towed away. The roads were open and power was finally been restored to everyone by the 26th....then there was snow on the 28th and 31st as well.

So much for Global Warming!

God Bless everyone and I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

Sincerely,

Rick