Jump Into The Fire……
I’m sure at least some of you are familiar with this classic song by “Harry Nilsson”….. If you were in Oklahoma yesterday, you would have been trying to do just the opposite – Jump Out Of The FIRE!…… We had wildfires all the way from the Texas border to the Kansas border!….. One of the largest was in the SE area of Oklahoma City less than 4 miles from MR Central’s Oklahoma HQ…… J.J.’s abode was within one-half mile of the action……
Over one hundred homes were totally destroyed (the official count has not been determined yet), along with an equal number, or more, damaged from the fires….. I can’t think of a worse way to lose your home….. In a tornado, you at least have a chance of some of your stuff surviving, but, in a fire – it’s all TOAST!…… The constant winds we have this time of year (actually we have them year round in Oklahoma) was the major factor, along with super low humidity, pushed the fires to the limit….. To be more accurate, we always have Texas blowing and Kansas sucking, or, Kansas blowing and Texas sucking…… Yesterday we had both!…… Texas started it with winds up to 70 mph out of the south, then about 9 pm last night a front moved though, and Kansas started blowing between 35-50 mph which changed the direction of the fires….. It was not a pretty site……
I really, seriously, think I need to “get outta this place” (The Animals)…… We’re already had a tornado in February and now a firestorm, both within a few miles of MR Central….. Mother Nature has MR “bracketed In”, and, the only place I have to hide is in Prairie Dog Bob’s ample underground bunker……. I’m moving all the important stuff there before I leave to visit the Seattle MR Central HQ this following weekend…..
S-o-o-o, If you’re looking for a “Hot Time in the Ol’ Town” – just come to Oklahoma for a visit, but, remember to bring your flame retardant shorts and a map of the nearest tornado shelter….
April 10th, 2009 at 11:33 am
“OOOOOOH, the skies are always blue in Seattle.”…….Sung by Tony Bennet
April 11th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I’m not looking for blue skies, Anon, we have way too many of those sunny bright days here in Oklahoma…… That’s why we’ve got wildfires everywhere….. I’m wanting to see some clouds and rain….. We are supposed to have rain most of the day tomorrow, which is Easter….. Nobody here is complaining about a washout for Easter as we still have wildfires burning in the SE part of the state……
I see there’s rain in Seattle right now on the TV weather…… Maybe Mr. Bennet had jet lag and just thought he was in Seattle when he sang that number…. eh?…..
April 11th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
The Chamber of Commerice or somebody paid Tony for a song about Seattle. The right amount of money can buy blue skies I guess. It’s raining. I’ll never believe Tony again.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Either Tony-boy or the C of C ran out of money in their “Blue Skies” fund…… Maybe El Tone-e-o should have left “always” out of the blue skies line…….
It’s a rainy Easter here, and, everyone is happy with it. Well, maybe not the kids or the Easter Bunny, but, the rain has finally put a stop to the firestorms….. We still had fires rekindling yesterday, causing more evacuations and damage….. That’s a full three days of Oklahoma Burning…..
BTW, PD Bob was deemed a hero, as he saved an entire community of fellow Prairie Dogs by jumping into the fire and leading them to safety without regard for his own safety…… Of course, and this is off the record for security reasons, he had on his super protective fire retardant PDB suit that he fashioned out of an old NASA Apollo space suit so he really was not in any danger, but, that didn’t stop him from accepting the “PD Oak Leaf of Merit Award (with double peanut clusters) for Bravery….. PDB promptly ate the clusters and used the oak leaf for a tablecloth…… PDB has no shame…….
April 12th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
It took a day or two but the news finally reported your fires. The one near you was set??
April 12th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
BTW
I was researching prairie dogs and discovered the sport of hunting prairie dogs. Is PD BOB aware that he may be in some ones sights? Do prairie dogs taste like chicken?
April 12th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Don’t know about chicken. However, visit your favorite Chinese restaurant & you are probably eating it, whether you know it or not. And this is coming from someone who loves Chinese food.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
That’s correct, Anon, the fire in SE OKC (Midwest City) that almost got J.J.’s abode and was too close for comfort for the MRC HQ is suspected arson….. Kids were seen leaving an old school bus that had been converted into an RV of sorts which was located in a salvage yard shortly before the fire was seen…… It was determined that the bus was the ignition point of the wildfire….. J.J. said he is fairly sure that he knows the culprits…… He said they are two of the grandson’s of the salvage yard owner, and are quite worthless young bozos, who were probably smoking dope in the bus….. It’s not known whether they started the fire on purpose or it was an accident, and, I haven’t heard if they have been picked-up yet….
PD Bob says PD hunting is NOT a sport – it’s serious business….. You remember his PDB flak jacket he always wears, also, that’s why his HQ is a fortified base camp with razor wire, sandbagged overhead cover, electronic people sniffers, and hidden cameras everywhere….. You have to go through 4 checkpoints just to get with 30 meters of the entrance, which he changes daily…… And, NO, he doesn’t taste like chicken, and, he wants your address, but, I’m refusing to give it to him…..
Don’t worry Sunn, after reading your comment, PD Bob is deep into investigating every Asian food supply and outlet in the OKC metro….. He said, “If they’ve been serving a Blue Plate PD Special, they won’t been doing it much longer”……
April 13th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I’m not a prairie dog hunter, but there’s generally not much left to eat after getting shot with a typical varmint rifle (.22-250, .243 Ackley, etc.; any cartridge driving light bullets at high velocity).
April 13th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Stew? Sorry PD Bob. Just kidding. Probably full of herbicides anyway.
(I moved. No forwarding address.)
April 14th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I don’t know, HS, PD Bob’s fairly big and pudgy…… He’s much larger than a normal prairie dog…… A lotta meat there….. That’s why he keeps all those defenses up and running…… PD Bob said he wanted your address also because of the “varmint” comment….. I’m not furnishing him any info, but, you might follow Anon’s lead and move with no forwarding address…….
Oh yeah, PD Bob also told me that he knew for a fact that, “Humans are the ones who taste like chicken”…… PD Bob has a warped sense of humor, and, I hope he was kidding, but, you never know with him…..