If you choose to flee in your car, make certain you are not driving into another storm or putting yourself in more danger!If you choose to flee in your car, plan for and anticipate traffic jams and blocked roads, hail, heavy rain and flooding.If you choose to drive away, let someone know where you are … Continue reading TORNADO SAFETY TIPS!
Month: May 2013
GRLevel3 Tools
So I have come up with a few tools that I find very useful.Useful Sites: http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~slincoln/GRS/shapefiles/ http://www.redteamwx.com/grlevelx.html http://www.tornadocentral.com/grlevelx-placefiles.html http://cswxcenterandthc.weebly.com/grlevel-x-placefiles.html Mesonet Placefiles http://scripts.redteamwx.com/mesonet/ok.php - (Oklahoma Mesonet) http://scripts.redteamwx.com/mesonet/ok_full.php - (Oklahoma Mesonet Full Plot) http://scripts.redteamwx.com/mesonet/west_tx.php - (West Texas Mesonet) http://scripts.redteamwx.com/mesonet/west_tx_full.php - (West Texas Mesonet Full Plot) http://scripts.redteamwx.com/mesonet/ks.php - … Continue reading GRLevel3 Tools
Storm smashes through town
Hot on the heels of last week’s stormy weather, spring continues to roar through Southwest Oklahoma as heavy rains and high winds powered through late Wednesday afternoon leaving a wake of damage and electrical outages.A windy and humid afternoon in Lawton developed into strong gusts of high winds and a short burst of rain which … Continue reading Storm smashes through town
Waste of money for Furlough Notices
So you may think that this sequestration and government furloughs are saving the government money. Well think again, as many workers are receiving their furlough notices this week, they are reporting copious amounts of waste. The average furlough letter is three pages or two pieces of paper, so each employee is required to sign a … Continue reading Waste of money for Furlough Notices
Furlough notices to Department of Defense civilian workers
Furlough notices are set to go out this week to civilian Department of Defense workers, setting the stage for 11 days of unpaid leave to start July 8.Furlough proposal notices are set to be delivered through June 5 triggering the 30-day notice required by law before leave can begin. The furloughs are part of the … Continue reading Furlough notices to Department of Defense civilian workers
Lawton, area communities send prayers, aid to Moore
While people from far and wide are anxious to try and help the victims affected by Monday’s disastrous tornado in Moore, some of Lawton’s finest have already been there and are waiting for their call to go back again.According to various wire reports, the tornado resulted in over 200 injuries or fatalities and left a … Continue reading Lawton, area communities send prayers, aid to Moore
Yahoo redesigns Flickr, adds 1 terabyte of free storage and more!!
Hot on the heels of Yahoo spending a whopping $1.1 billion on Tumblr, the company has just released a huge update to Flickr. And to go along with the completely redesigned look and feel of the photo service, it is also greatly expanding the storage offered to users, up to a whopping one terabyte.Yahoo was … Continue reading Yahoo redesigns Flickr, adds 1 terabyte of free storage and more!!
10 deadliest tornadoes
Here are the 10 deadliest tornadoes to touch down in the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:1. The "Tri-State Tornado" killed 695 people and injured 2,027, traveling more than 300 miles through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, 1925. It was rated an F5 at the top of the old Fujita … Continue reading 10 deadliest tornadoes
Busy Times!
Been busy at work lately with building a Image and Task Sequence for our KIOSK computers. After four days of building and testing, I finally got everything up and running. Now all the other techs just have to image them and that's about it. They don't have to manually configure and set them up, no … Continue reading Busy Times!