Woo Hoo!! Tornado sirens going off.

[RoadKingLarry]

Tornado sirens going off all around and just lost power.

[RoadKingLarry]

Worst of storm has passed. No obvious damage. Son has trees down on his property. Son in law's mother in Tulsa has siding and roof damage on her house.

[RocketMan]

Sorry for your relations property damage.  Everyone is okay, no injuries?

[Ben]

Glad you're okay! Property damage sucks, but it's better than person damage. 

[grampster]

Glad to hear you're OK.  I hate tornados and derechos.  Up close and personal too many times.

[RoadKingLarry]

Power still out, gonna be hot today.
No word of any major property damage or injury from any of my clan so far.
Most scary event so far was my wife trying to find her ancient stove top coffee pot. It was found and employed so still safe.

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Power still out, gonna be hot today.
No word of any major property damage or injury from any of my clan so far.
Most scary event so far was my wife trying to find her ancient stove top coffee pot. It was found and employed so still safe.

No problems here West of Cashion, but I certainly understand the importance of a stove-top coffee pot! We keep ours in our safe room.

Woody

[RoadKingLarry]

Finally drug out my generator. Needed to run out the old gas anyway. Hadn't touched it in at least 8-9 months but it started 1st pull. Got it running 2 refrigerators a box fan and a couple of phone chargers.
Half expected the power to come back on as soon as I set it up.

[RocketMan]

Finally drug out my generator. Needed to run out the old gas anyway. Hadn't touched it in at least 8-9 months but it started 1st pull. Got it running 2 refrigerators a box fan and a couple of phone chargers.
Half expected the power to come back on as soon as I set it up.

It's a proven fact that firing up your own generator speeds the utility repair process.

[RoadKingLarry]

Hasn't worked so far. Still no power. Pretty close to being the 2nd longest outage we've had in the 28 years I've been here. 13 hours and counting, 14 will be a new 2nd place. Longest was 6 days after an ice storm in 2007.
At least it isn't stupid hot today.
I'm a little embarrassed to admit it but I got caught with no gas on hand. I'd emptied two 5-gallon cans in the last 2 days mowing and forgot to refill yesterday evening.  Power came back in town so I was able to fill up all 4 of my cans. Lesson (re)learned.

I've gotten reports that there is quite  bit of damage at the marina where my boat is. They are asking people to hold off coming out to check their boats to let them get the docks stabilized and safe.

[Perd Hapley]

I am sorry to hear that you have experienced climate change.

[RoadKingLarry]

Power at my place was restored about 8:00PM.
I am now currently in a deeply physical relationship with my air conditioner 

Drove down to the lake to check on my boat but wasn't able to access the docks yet due to problems with the docks and walkways. I talked to the marina owner as well as the service manager and both said that their appears to be no serious damage to any of the boats.
On the drive to the highway there was about a mile long stretch along the county road where the transmission line power poles were all snapped off right above ground level. I'll try to get pictures tomorrow.

[RoadKingLarry]

Missed by a mile.
National Weather Service is reporting 2 EF-1 tornados in my AO Sunday morning.
One went just south of the Oologah Lake dam missing the marina by about a mile.
Another went just about 3/4 of a mile south of my house.

Public Service of Oklahoma and the various electric cooperatives are still reporting over 185,000 without power and we are currently under a heat advisory.
Some estimates are saying as late as Saturday afternoon before service will be restored.
https://poweroutage.us/area/state/oklahoma

[RoadKingLarry]

Gas is getting hard to come by in the Tulsa metro area.

https://www.newson6.com/story/64911baf8ef63f742a6128f3/drivers-struggle-to-find-fuel-as-green-country-gas-stations-face-outages

[JTHunter]

Larry - glad to hear everything is back on for you.  You are lucky as you were only out less than a day.  Back in mid-April, we were out for 2 days and I had to get a neighbor's help to get my generator in the back of my p/u and get it to the house.

Ain't Life GRAND?? 

[230RN]

We came close a couple of years ago and that prompted me to get a propane camp stove out of storage plus buy extra torch tanks.   At least I'd be able to make cowboy coffee with the water I have stored around the house and heat the freezer food and the many Hormel Compleat dinners I have.  (Though you can eat them cold... calories is calories.)

Right now I'm running a little short on batteries and adequate battery-powered lighting.  Will "do something" about that shortly.  Tornado-wise, the weather is usually warm enough, and in winter power outages I've got plenty of bundle-up clothes to stay warm.

So we'll see.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Hope your boat is as OK as they're talking about and all APSers are OK.

Terry, 230RN

[JTHunter]

We came close a couple of years ago and that prompted me to get a propane camp stove out of storage plus buy extra torch tanks.   At least I'd be able to make cowboy coffee with the water I have stored around the house and heat the freezer food and the many Hormel Compleat dinners I have.  (Though you can eat them cold... calories is calories.)

Right now I'm running a little short on batteries and adequate battery-powered lighting.  Will "do something" about that shortly.  Tornado-wise, the weather is usually warm enough, and in winter power outages I've got plenty of bundle-up clothes to stay warm.

So we'll see.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Hope your boat is as OK as they're talking about and all APSers are OK.

Terry, 230RN

Same here.  I have a gas grill outside, a dual burner "white gas" camp stove, both a gas & propane lanterns, kerosene lamps, candles, flashlights galore, some battery lanterns, a wood burning fireplace, at least 15 gal. of gas for car & P/U, so - - -. 

[K Frame]

I pulled into Sandusky, Ohio, back in 1992 for the National Matches at Camp Perry the afternoon after an evening tornado cut a pretty nasty swath through the area.

Between that and the damage from the 2011 Deracho in Northern Virginia is the closest I ever want to come to an even like a tornado.

[JTHunter]

I pulled into Sandusky, Ohio, back in 1992 for the National Matches at Camp Perry the afternoon after an evening tornado cut a pretty nasty swath through the area.

Between that and the damage from the 2011 Deracho in Northern Virginia is the closest I ever want to come to an even like a tornado.

Around 1970, we had a tornado pass over the house where we lived at the time.  Two doors up, the neighbor's small travel trailer and backyard fence were both blown over.  Half a block east of them, three houses in a N-S line were damaged.  The southernmost was a split level and the roof on the upper section was gone.  The house across the street to the north lost part of its roof and the northernmost of the three had a 12' 2x4 "speared" through their roof near the edge, going through the soffit and not into the house.  There was other  damage to those houses but that was what I remembered as the most serious damage.
Our house and most of the E-W houses across the street from ours had little damage and we were less than 75 yds. from that split level house. 

[MrsSmith]

Glad you're safe RKL. Tis the season.
I'm bad about forgetting to run my generator regularly, in spite of having reminders set. I also have trouble remembering whether I've treated the fuel or not. Called Sta-bil customer service to see if it was okay to add more to gen and to fuel tanks, since I might have, or I might not have - it was 8 months ago and I've slept since then. The guy was GREAT!
Here's what I learned:
-  15 mils per 5 gallons of gas
-  Add to fuel cans and gen now, even if I added it last fall. Sta-bil won't CLEAN fuel, but it will prevent it from further decay. In future, treat immediately after filling cans.
-  Get a can of fresh fuel - add one part new fuel to three parts old fuel (since it's less than a year old and has been properly stored) when adding to generator or lawn equipment to give a little fresh boost to the old fuel
-  After adding Sta-bil to generator, start it and let it run for a while (can't remember how long he said - 15-20 minutes I think)
-  Still okay to use Sta-bil treated gas when mixing with oil 2-part motors
-  Sta-bil is only good for two years from date opened. When you open a bottle, write date on side and don't use after two years. If you don't know when you bought it, call Sta-bil and give them the first 5 numbers printed on back of bottle and they'll tell you what year. (773) 694-4554
-  When storing equipment with Sta-bil treated gas, top off fuel reservoir, then start and run for a 30 - 60 seconds before storing.

Y'all probably know all this, but I didn't, so thought I'd share. Stay safe with all this crazy weather!