if you loose power and you have a battery operated laptop
or cell phone and you want to find out the weather information you can browse to this web address for your areas weather information.

http://www.wunderground.com/wxradio/smallplayer.html?stationid=STILLWATERTOWNIE|648|2986

here is a list of stations

http://www.wunderground.com/wxradio

good luck

Those can be handy links. I personally use NOAA on my computer. In the upper left corner you will see a search box that will give you the weather for your home town. Otherwise I have a physical weather radio that carries weather watches and warnings, with an alarm in case of bad weather. All are good ways to keep up.

I have my browser home page set to look at the local weather radar from NOAA. That way I get a quick look every time I open the browser.

Bill Gill

I must admit when I saw the videos of the snow in OK
I became a little concerned , but your an old hard ass so
I suppose it would take a lot more than a few feet of snow
to do you in.

how many bags of beans have you got tucked away?

And what does this have to do with my response to your original post? I was just pointing out that there is one more option.

And I will now quit feeding this troll.

Bill Gill

Maybe he's trying to up his post count?

...wait, did I just do that?

I pictured some sorta Nikola Tesla super villain shooting electricity from his fingers.

Another good way to stay up to date with the weather is to take a look outside.

If you want to get very technical, they have this new device that is extremely accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock

Yea, but who wants some clunky mechanical thing like that when you can have a super-duper high technology gadget that works almost as good.


Bill Gill

This is true. Something I deal with daily. Working in the tech industry build amps for accelerators and other high tech gizmos, while I tool around in a 30 year old truck, sporting a flip phone that can't receive most data from them new fangled touch screen doohickies.
I like collecting 100 year old blow torches, model steam engines, and the like. I enjoy things from a time when they were built to last, not built to be thrown away and replaced in a year or two.

Red Green once did a write up in one of his books about building a weather station from crappy Christmas gifts. It was a joke, but still brilliant in it's own right.

I'd trust a good solid rock to do it's job over any technology... period. Less parts = more reliability. Plus, I was a boy once; a stick and a rock was all you needed to wage war against everything from hostile aliens, to cootie ridden girls.

I guess I was concerned for you and your family because
you live in Oklahoma.

the videos were saying the roads were closing.

that's why I asked about the beans ( stored food )

BTW , your reply lends support to my use of the descriptive
term ( hard ass ) also.

I thank you for your concern. Fortunately here in Tulsa we didn't have all of that snow. Our official snow fall was less than a half an inch. The heavy snow was in Western Oklahoma and on into the Texas Panhandle. They did have heavy snow and problems out there. There was a story on TV about a couple who headed out on I-40 to go to New Mexico to ski. They were trapped on the interstate just this side of Amarillo for 17 hours before help finally got to them. I'm not sure if they were still up for playing in the snow after they got out.

Tulsa has had heavy snow. 2 years ago the whole city was paralyzed for almost a week when we had so much snow that they just couldn't get it moved out. Our street department has snow plows and salt spreaders, but the snow was too deep for them to do much good. It took 3 days before the neighbors across the street came out and worked their way up to the corner by shoveling and wallowing their pickup around. That took them about 3/4 of an hour. After that everybody got out and shoveled their drives and finally started getting out. I was extremely popular right then. I was the only one who had snow shovel. I loaned it to everybody up and down the street.

Bill Gill

Bill G, you should've charged rent on that snow shovel. You could have earned, enough to get another one and charged rent for that one too. You could've been a real entrepreneurial snow Baron.