Listen to our storm coverage OR YOU WILL DIE

[heironymouspasparagus]

I was sitting in the old Pagoda restaurant the evening of the June 8 storm, eating dinner - anniversary dinner.  And yes, it was an omen of things to come.  They closed the big heavy curtains over all the windows about 1 1/2 minutes before the tornado hit and blew them all out.  Every power pole from south of I-44 about 3 blocks to about 3/4 mile north of I-44 was blown over.  

Didn't even get a free dinner out of it!  No particular reason I should have, but hey, what the heck...why not?

Anyway, still can't post a picture.  They are too big (3meg) and I can't figure out how to decimate them yet.  Will keep trying, even though they are rapidly becoming obsolete.

[dbacks fan]

The June 8th '74 and the December 5 1975 are in my mind forever. The June 8th my dad was the person in charge of the Pony/Colt games at Reed Park. The weather was getting bad and they cancelled the games for late Saturday afternoon. He came home with a player from one of the teams that did not have a ride at that time. About 7:15 channel 2 went off the air which was about the time that area was hit. I remember the sirens going off and looking out our backyard and seeing that god awful pea green color in the clouds, we were just west of the old MA-HU mansion and the tornados had lifted from Brookside and then touched down again around 21st and Garnett. The Dec 5th storm I saw the funnel come down on the Plaza 3 center area from the field of the old mansion. I remember the fact that it was white until it touched down. That day was bad to begin with, IIRC it was cold in the morning, but buy the late afternoon it was spring like.

[heironymouspasparagus]

We used to play around MA-HU a lot.  Back when they were still alive and living there.  Hugh kept longhorn cattle and we would make a game out of going into the pasture as far as possible, then running when the cow came towards us.  Of course, the biggest idiot (who got closest to the cow) was the winner.

There was a little pond at the southwest corner with a concrete building (pump house??) nearby.  The urban myth was that alligators lived in the pond.

I attended the fire when the old barn burned, singeing a couple of those houses just north.  That was impressive, but sad.

They used to give out silver dollars at Halloween there.

Shame they wasted that wonderful tract of land with that sorry little housing addition...

[Hoss]

This is some funny crap right here!...LOL!

[sauerkraut]

Busting into a TV show for weather hype is uncalled for and dangerous, the steady crying wolf by TV weathermen every time a dark cloud passes by will make people tune out. Here's my idea- Break into a show for 15-30 seconds and anounce the weather problem and then tell the viewers go to station 2.2, or 6.2 or 8.2 for more info & details if you wish. There is no call to keep crying wolf and telling people run to their tornado shelters if you live at such & such a place, or keep showing weather maps and radar all night long. This goes not for tornados, but for  spring rain clouds, spring thunderstorms and winter snow or snow storms. They did alot of hype for a coming 6" of snow and Tulsa only ot a dusting one weekend in January... 30 years ago we did not have have all this weather hype about storms and we got along fine and lived thru it. In Cincinatti Ohio it got so bad that people started to call snow "white death" because the weathermen went so bonkers- and it's even on google, "white death cincinatti Ohio"- It's out of control.

[Hoss]

Busting into a TV show for weather hype is uncalled for and dangerous, the steady crying wolf by TV weathermen every time a dark cloud passes by will make people tune out. Here's my idea- Break into a show for 15-30 seconds and anounce the weather problem and then tell the viewers go to station 2.2, or 6.2 or 8.2 for more info & details if you wish. There is no call to keep crying wolf and telling people run to their tornado shelters if you live at such & such a place, or keep showing weather maps and radar all night long. This goes not for tornados, but for  spring rain clouds, spring thunderstorms and winter snow or snow storms. They did alot of hype for a coming 6" of snow and Tulsa only ot a dusting one weekend in January... 30 years ago we did not have have all this weather hype about storms and we got along fine and lived thru it. In Cincinatti Ohio it got so bad that people started to call snow "white death" because the weathermen went so bonkers- and it's even on google, "white death cincinatti Ohio"- It's out of control.

Good thing you're not providing that service, non-res...

Oh, and thirty years ago, we didn't have the technology for meteorology we do now.

Oh, but I am talking to a dude who is perfectly content on watching the news on his 13" portable Zenith TV...

[Breadburner]

Good thing you're not providing that service, non-res...

Oh, and thirty years ago, we didn't have the technology for meteorology we do now.

Oh, but I am talking to a dude who is perfectly content on watching the news on his 13" portable Zenith TV...

Black and White no less.....

[Hoss]

Black and White no less.....

No, I'll give him the color part, BB.

He does 'claim' to live in Tulsa, dontcha know..

[dbacks fan]

Living in Arizona for the last twelve years it's interesting the number of people that I have met that have never heard the storm siren let alone the attack siren, and the fact that as I have traveled all over the state in the last 12 years, the only place that I have seen a CD Siren was at the Titan Missile Museum and the only time it would sound was if they were going to launch.

[Conan71]

Living in Arizona for the last twelve years it's interesting the number of people that I have met that have never heard the storm siren let alone the attack siren, and the fact that as I have traveled all over the state in the last 12 years, the only place that I have seen a CD Siren was at the Titan Missile Museum and the only time it would sound was if they were going to launch.

They use them to call in volunteer firefighters in rural parts of Pennsylvania.  I was at an antique motorcycle show in Oley, Pa (near Reading) about 9-10 years ago and it was a pretty dark, coudy day.  I heard the sirens go off and started looking in every direction.  I was talking to a local at the time and he asked what was wrong, I told him I was trying to see where the wall cloud was, he just laughed and said someone probably had a lame cow on the road or trash can fire and they were calling in the VFD.

[dbacks fan]

They use them to call in volunteer firefighters in rural parts of Pennsylvania.  I was at an antique motorcycle show in Oley, Pa (near Reading) about 9-10 years ago and it was a pretty dark, coudy day.  I heard the sirens go off and started looking in every direction.  I was talking to a local at the time and he asked what was wrong, I told him I was trying to see where the wall cloud was, he just laughed and said someone probably had a lame cow on the road or trash can fire and they were calling in the VFD.

Would much rather hear them for a storm, or your description then what was possible to come out of Little Rock or Kansas in the 70's and 80's.







The second pic is the former Mrs. Dback and myself standing infront of a deactivated warhead from a Titan II. The kid in the background, no idea who he is.

[Townsend]

The kid in the background, no idea who he is.

Little ratbastard is a nuclear photo-bomber

[patric]

I wish someone would make or maybe already has made a map of the locations of each of the sirens in Tulsa.  I remember seeing one of the old 1000Ts when I went to elementary school (it was actually located on the property line between Lindbergh Elementary and Eastwood Church) but don't see one there anymore.

The city's map.  You can look up the number of the malfunctioning siren and call it into the MAC.

[Hoss]

The city's map.  You can look up the number of the malfunctioning siren and call it into the MAC.

I found it...KTUL did a story and had this map.  The sirens at Mitchell and Lindbergh (which they moved from when they had the old 1000 which used to be situated in the eave between Lindbergh property and Eastwood property) are the closest and both look to be Whelen 3016.  The one at McClure died of a lightning strike evidently, and it's one of the new 2910s that cost an arm and a leg.

[Conan71]

Living in Arizona for the last twelve years it's interesting the number of people that I have met that have never heard the storm siren let alone the attack siren, and the fact that as I have traveled all over the state in the last 12 years, the only place that I have seen a CD Siren was at the Titan Missile Museum and the only time it would sound was if they were going to launch.

Interesting you brought that up, Anthony Bourdain had a segment on his show last night from that museum.

Here's interesting background on a missile silo once owned by Todd Skinner of Tulsa in Wamego, Ks.  The story got the attention of Rolling Stone Mag.  He was the self-proclaimed king of LSD.

http://cjonline.com/indepth/missilesilos/