Tuesday, December 11, 2007

State of Emergency

The state of Oklahoma has been hit by freezing rain and more than 600,000 homes in the OKC metro area are without power at this time. We've been lucky and haven't had anything more than a light dimming, but much of the area is dark. When I went to the doctor's office today the two oncology nurses were without power at home. The roads are safe to drive on, but school has been canceled due to no power. It has already been announced that Chris and Lexie will be off tomorrow, too.

The trees look like a tornado has hit them. Many are split down to the trunk, and some are broken at the root. We have several large brances that are broken, but our tree had no leaves so it wasn't as bad as many.

3 comments:

Becky said...

Glad to hear you too are still electrified!! We've been running off massive generators at work with no heat/air (although all the computers keep us mighty warm!). A little tree damage here, but we had little trees. My daughter's big tree split in 4 directions. It missed the house and cars though! Keep warm.
Becky

Ruth said...

Scary weather. Stay safe and warm.

Anonymous said...

My cell is ka-put so can't call you back and tell you how mean that message was! I am hopeful I will get my new one in the mail any day and then you just wait! But hey, don't you have them allll year?