I moved to Oklahoma from Colorado in 1995 and this is the first time I remember a blizzard hitting the Sooner State! Now back in Colorado this is not big news. A blizzard gets a crawl on the bottom of the TV screen but here in Oklahoma you can forget about watching any of your TV shows because all that will be on TV is weather coverage! I love a good snow storm so I'm not hating this weather all that much. It makes me think back to my first experience with a blizzard.
We had moved to Walsh, Colorado from Briscoe, Texas when my Mom re-married. My new stepdad owned a huge farm and ranch operation in Baca County. The blizzard hit and it hit hard! The snow drifts were so big our cattle were walking over the barbed wire fences! We had cattle scattered out all over the place! At that point, we had to get horseback! The horse I had at the time was a little mare named Shea. We saddled up and left the barn. The snow was so high the bottoms of my stirrups were dragging over the top of it! I don't know how that horse plowed through that snow all day but she did!
My sister and I have always thought it was funny how quickly the schools in Oklahoma will cancel classes during inclement weather. It took a major storm in Colorado for us to get a snow day! Around here, just the mention of a storm sends people to Wal-Mart in droves to stock up on lantern oil, water, potted meat and beans! My friend Chris works in a liquor store and yesterday morning they had run over $2000 in sales to storm-frenzied customers who didn't want to be without their booze in a white-out!!! Unreal.
The storm de-railed my plans to go to Yukon today to start celebrating Christmas with my family but in the grand scheme of things it's a small annoyance. We are all safe and warm and that is what's really important!
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers!
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