Cheap Flights to Oklahoma
June 15, 2005
We’ve had a rough couple of days here in the Ozarks as far as the weather goes. For two days straight, I’ve been disturbed by the wailing of tornado sirens and the gawd-awful sound of the Emergency Broadcast System interrupting my evening of baser television entertainment. While I don’t believe any tornados actually ripped through Springfield, the weather was scary none the less.
Lightening… thunder… rain… hail… wind… tornado sirens… flash floods… not exactly what you’d call get-outside-and-enjoy-it weather, right?
So why is it, when I looked out the window of my apartment the last two evenings, I saw more than half of my apartment complex standing outside looking up at the sky? Seriously… more people were outside than were probably inside avoiding the elements. What were they looking for? What is it they wanted to accomplish by being outside during severe weather?
When the EBS is telling you to get inside and take shelter, is it code for go outside and get struck by lightening? Is it a government conspiracy to weed out the slow-thinkers from the gene pool? Maybe the airlines are trying to save money by using strong winds and tornados to transport people across state lines for free? I mean… if I could just wait outside for a funnel cloud to pick me up and hurl me to Oklahoma it’d probably save a couple hundred bucks in the long run, right? I wouldn’t get any free peanuts or mini-bottles of Jack Daniels on the trip, but I could very well get impaled by a fence post… and that’d be worth the money I saved on a plane ticket, let me tell ya!
You know people smack-talk the weather folks for being wrong so often. But when they tell you to stay inside and seek shelter, they’re not wrong. It’s not opposite day and you shouldn’t say “I know you are but what am I”. Close your door, walk inside, and take shelter. Or don’t. But at the very least, call me when you land in Oklahoma City… I want to know how long it took to get the tree branch out of your butt…
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