Storm damage

My pictures fail to capture the scale of the damage.  One picture here, another there, fails to give a sense of how pervasive the damage is to the trees on campus.  I’m not sure there are any undamaged trees.  The older neighbourhoods around campus are even harder hit – and not only have their trees [...]

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Felgar Hall oak

South Oval

No handicapper parking

Outside Starbucks (formerly Jimmy John’s) on Campus Corner

Trip onto campus

The trip onto campus this morning was really sad.  Broken trees everywhere.  South Oval is just devastated.  We live in a slightly newer part of town, with younger trees, so I wasn’t prepared for the damage I saw.   It was heartbreaking.

Oklahoma weather

Over half a million people are reported to be without power this morning. Our water treatment plant is apparently without power, and the city is borrowing water from surrounding towns. And now the latest concern – carbon monoxide poisoning from people without electricity trying to heat their homes.  While the ice is probably [...]

Another night of ice

Although the temperatures are above freezing, there’s still a lot of ice out there. The ice brought down a lot of trees – onto powerlines, across roads, into buildings and cars. And as ice-laden as they are, more will probably fall before the ice melts.