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Tulsa Ice Storm – December 2007

13 December 2007 by TQuizzle, No Comments

This year’s Ice Storm has sucked…and I mean sucked big time. There were at one time almost 800,000 customers in Oklahoma without power. In December, that’s not a good thing.

Ice Storm - Dec 2007We’ve been without power since sometime around 2am Monday morning. Since the in-laws have a gas generator, we’ve been staying in their house where the furnace is running at a good 71°.

Working at a hospital proves difficult in these times too because a lot of businesses are closed down due to their own lack of power therefore their work force is at home taking care of business. The hospital never closes and we have our own quite complex power generator backup system so we’re still expected to be at work shining brightly.
I’d really like to be home during the day, cleaning up the house, fixing little problems that this ice storm has caused but alas I sit at work from sun up, to sun down.
One thing this whole experience has taught me is to always carry a lighter in your pocket. Never know when you might need to light a candle.

With this whole power outage experience it seems quite odd to me that we’d actually have people out there who are lighting up their Christmas lights, as if to say “Screw you guys…I’ve got POWER!” This just doesn’t set well with me. With heaps of people without power, you actually have the audacity to not only enjoy your heat, but to gloat about it by “Clark Griswold’ing” your neighborhood.

PGA – Tulsa Style

9 August 2007 by TQuizzle, No Comments

Today Golf’s top Pros from around the world are taking over the most uppity golf course in Oklahoma…the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, OK.

On Monday of this week, I was handed a ticket to Tuesday’s practice round by my boss. It was nice to get the day off and see some of golf’s most talented smash their driver shot from a 655 yard par five tee box. I had the most perfect seat about 10 feet behind the tee box on number five where I sat for hours. These guys are amazing… two shots of my driver don’t equal one of theirs, man I need to practice.

I didn’t see Tiger come through as he was out there before seven o’clock every morning to beat the nasty Oklahoma August heat. Smart man.

Photo courtesy of TulsaRage.