Okies in the BYC The Original

[jimd]

OK, as one who travels all over the country to help with such things, here's my take.

Chances of acutally getting hit by tornado - very low (although I've been hit 2 times personally) And you can easily hide from them.
Chances of getting hit with huricane. If you are a coastal state 100%.
Ice 1 times a year, and not normally every year. And it's gone in a couple of days.
Snow, minimal.
Floods, no different than anywhere else.
Earthquakes. Just a novalty. Though we do have the largest fault in the US, and it runs right under the largest maze of oil and natural gas lines outside of Alaska.
Extreme temps? Just move 100 miles north or south and you will get the other end of the thermometer.
I've sweltered in the south and froze in north. Was hit by a tornado in KS on the way to Minnisota. Next day was in the 70's. Then the following days it sleeted all day.

Nope if it gets bad here, I just hunker down and wait it out. They got real problems everywhere else.
JimD

 

[chickensandmore]

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Read my Sig Line

Don

 

[HennyPennies2007]

I'm with ya Jim... Can't beat Oklahoma. I tell Hubby... I might consider a move east to get MORE storms, but I ain't leaving. I think God raised me up to move me here. I never fit in in California. Now I'm up to my neck in chicken krap, carrying water, shoveling hay and getting enough dust in my nose to fill a six foot hole every day. I sweat in the summer and freeze in the winter and gripe about both. Then I sit on my porch with a good chardonnay (still some calif. left in me) snd think this is the life. Jim if ya promise not to tell anyone on here...(I have an image to maintain) there have been times when I have gotten on my knees in my chicken coop and thanked God for bringing me here. I pray that I will live out my life here... and be buried in the red dirt and somewhere someone will say, "Well she wasn't born here, but she was truly an okie at heart".

 

[Stimpy]

I agree. I've been around the world a few times and I always come back to Oklahoma.

I do love me some Rocky Mountains. I could relocate to Colorado for awhile, but I know that I would never truly feel at home there.

When I was a young man, I'd get happy feet now and then. I always wanted to see what somewhere else had to offer. But in the end I always came back home.

I'm kinda glad all that is behind me now. I used to love week long road trips just to see the fall foliage in other states. Now I refuse to go anywhere that requires that I sleep anywhere besides my own bed. Man, when did I get old?

-Stimp-

 

[bethinoklahoma]

Oklahoma is a good place... We moved here from California also and I have got to say I am at home and at peace here. I have my chickens, horse never ending supply of neighbors dogs and I just love it all. I miss alot of things about California but gee I'll take that in on Vaction. Home is here...

 

[Stimpy]

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I have some for sale, are you looking for babies or adults, I have both.

What does a baby fainting goat go for these days?

-Stimp-

 

[Dandelion007]

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I have some for sale, are you looking for babies or adults, I have both.

What does a baby fainting goat go for these days?

-Stimp-

 

[poultryand bees]

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I moved to Oklahoma in January 1976 and found Oklahomans to be among the friendliest people I had ever met. After 33 years in Oklahoma, I consider myself a native Okie.

 

[Stimpy]

Hello GB,

Thanks for the reply. I should have known that, as much time as I've spent in southeast Oklahoma. Tho, in my defense, I spend most of my time in Pushmataha County.

I might have to get me a couple of those fainting goats.

-Stimp-

 

[doubleostud]

Stimpy, honestly fainting goats are great, they are smaller so you have to feed them less in the winter, but they will clear off a pasture during the summer in no time, and when you scare them they fall over....an added bonus.