Ice and Snow

Ice storms are no fun.

Last Sunday night the freezing rain started pelting NE Oklahoma. At the time, I think we all thought it would pass. In the middle of the night the cracking and breaking of limbs began. That grew into total destruction of many trees in the area.

We live next to Centennial Park,which is full of large older trees. The sound of trees breaking under the weight of ice is erie. Fortunately we have just one young tree in our front yard, so the damage to our property was minimal. However,many in our community and church were not so fortunate.

Then the power went out. 4 days later there are still nearly 200,000 people who have no power. Most of Owasso was knocked out, especially in the older part of the town. We were blessed. Ours was out 10 hours. At first it seemed inconvienent, but as I have seen others go through days of no power, we got off pretty good.

Our church became a shelter on Monday Morning. Our Staff has done a superb job in organzing and directing the shelter. We did not know what we were doing, but with the leadership skills of our team, we have managed to help well over 100 people. We have had alot of help from church members as well. We have good hearted people who want to serve. What a blessing

Now, we have word that a snowstorm is approaching. It could be heavy, but this is Oklahoma, and it seems after living here for 25 years, Weather experts in Oklahoma rarely know how to forecast snow.

Should be interesting.