May location and other nonsense
- Thread starter Ragman
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Stopped at a service plaza on I-44 in Oklahoma, East of Tulsa, watching a tornado-producing storm coming our way. Waiting here for storm to pass before resuming our westbound trip. Should be over in an hour or so. Softball-size hail is reported in the NOAA weather radio warning. Quiet here for the moment but that will not last. Keeping our fingers crossed and have a ditch nearby in case we need to flee the truck. No storm shelter at this location. Back room of the small building here is where staff people here go for shelter if needed. Our "fire drill" truck evacuation items are in hand for safe keeping. We will take them with us if we have to hit the ditch.
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paullud
Veteran Expediter
You sound prepared for safety, hopefully the storms leave without much damage.
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That's the way it played out. The storm in our path weakened and the warnings were allowed to time out. We are resuming our trip.
Murraycroexp
Veteran Expediter
There is a tornado emergency in st louis at this time and oklahoma city has flash flooding with wind gusts of 87 mph please watch over your trucks!!!
It played out OK for us but not for everyone. When we got to the TA at MM 142 in Oklahoma City, flooding was encountered. We were able to get in and out of the truck stop itself (fuel stop) after driving through standing water but not back onto I-40 at that on ramp. It was totally under water and a handful of cars were washed into the ditch. It took some wandering around on surface streets to work our way back to the previous on ramp and resume the trip. There were several places were cars were partially under water and abandoned.
We were not on the freeway long before traffic stopped at MM 129. A tornado had struck there. About six trucks parked at the closed scale were on their sides, most with their lights still on. Billboards were shredded and debris lined the road. Further south in the distance, we could see the disco lights of dozens of emergency vehicles. This is in or near El Reno, OK.
Checking the news, I see that this storm killed some people. FOX News is reporting five dead and dozens injured.
With the benefit of hindsight, it was a good choice to stop where we did to wait out the storm. May God be with those who fared less well.
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pandora2112
Seasoned Expediter
After Fort Hood drop off got a short run to Laredo...now off again to Alabama! I believe near Gadsden, just following my purple on the GPS! 
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underdog777
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sitting in jackson ms picked load up at san Antonio deliver to canton nissan
You are doing such a fine job of remaining incognito. I am sure Panther has no idea who underdog777 is.
underdog777
Seasoned Expediter
who cares if they knew who I was if you hold a grudge off some site like this what would you do any other time! I think they would be in deep water !!! just saying
underdog777
Seasoned Expediter
oooo yea some more food for your brain who says im not sitting at home posting all this! are maybe ive been haked by the yellow cube truck drivers! just saying dont beleive everything you read or see if you really want to know you have to try very hard to find the answers just like are new prez and the benghazi scandal! do I beleive he knew what was going on yes these ppl where set up to die