70 to 0 Welcome to Oklahoma

            Oklahoma is in general a unique place, but more so the weather. From the years of my experience I have noticed that Oklahoma is a surprise everyday! I remember in high school a day it was 70 degrees perfect; I excitedly put on shorts that morning. In high school you’re stuck in that dang building for hours and cannot even leave till the bell rings. I walked passed these long windows we had in the third floor hallway and when I looked out it was snowing. Really snow!?! It was 70 degrees and now I have to go scrap snow off my car. Welcome to Oklahoma.

            The 70 degrees to snow is really my favorite thing about Oklahoma. It does what it wants when it wants. With the recent weather that we had it made me think back to that day. A couple weeks ago we had that amazing weekend which was 70 degrees the sun was shining and a couple days later, a blizzard to Oklahoma standards hit and school was cancelled; again welcome to Oklahoma. I really love hearing people’s comments about the weather in Oklahoma if they did not grow up here. “What is this really happening?” “Was it not just 75 degrees the other day?” Well my friends this is the amazing place of Oklahoma.

            The weather we had the past few weeks I know it is winter but if you look outside right now you will realize it is once again 70 degrees outside. OH NO! Will we have another blizzard? Please please no! I think our environment here enjoys playing games on us. Like this week’s weather prediction is AWESOME with a little wind on Thursday but who knows about next week, everyone maybe rushing to Wal-Mart again and make it look like Hurricane Katrina is about to hit. Oklahoma’s environment is just crazy. I feel like living through the crazy weather is a great thing. Tomorrow is always a new day in Oklahoma.



Maxwell Shrader digs snow out from
 around his car near
 15th Street and Yorktown
 Avenue on Monday.
MIKE SIMONS / Tulsa World



            Unlike the weather I think our nature is a very unexpected also. Some plants, flowers, and trees that are not suppose to survive the insane weather we have. The plants, flowers and trees end up battling it out and making our state beautiful once the snow, rain or droughts stop. The snow storm we had a couple years back that made all of Tulsa’s power go out and snow was on the ground for weeks there was this little spot of grass in my mom’s yard that was still somewhat green. Now how in the world does that happen? The miracle of the snow, I am not sure but it still happened, the Oklahoma patch of grass survived INSANE.

            In all I have learned, is that when you are living in Oklahoma you better be ready for anything. Even in the summer you may want to keep that snow shovel available, you never know. People can blame in on global warming and green house gases and I am a firm believer in all of it, but I somehow see Oklahoma with a bubble around it and our state does whatever whenever it feels like it. For those people who are looking into moving to Oklahoma I think we should have a brochure called 70 to 0 welcome to Oklahoma weather it’s a surprise.