First time visitor? Learn more.

Oklahoma Wildfires

by Lance Kates ( 19 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at April 9th, 2009 - 4:20 pm

Oklahoma isn’t on the east or west coast, so I don’t expect the cable news stations to cover this:

Multiple wildfires in Oklahoma, spreading quickly. HIGH winds and dry air are setting the perfect condition.
Velma, Loco and Meridian Oklahoma evacuated. I-35 in Perry Oklahoma is closed. Sparks Oklahoma has been evacuated. Bradley OKlahoma is evacuated.

Citizens are asked to go to Midwest City Oklahoma for a shelter being set up to house them until the emergency passes.

Update 1:

Here is a link to a video feed.

Here is a map with some of the biggest fires.

Update 2:

Hennipen and Tatum Oklahoma have now been evacuated.   Wind Gusts up to 60+mph.  Up to 70mph in some areas.

Update 3:

I was hoping the fire would miss it, but the fire in Choctaw is now entering a cedar forest.  Cedar is more or less Nature’s Napalm.

Tags: ,

Comments

Comments and respectful debate are both welcome and encouraged.

Comments are the sole opinion of the comment writer, just as each thread posted is the sole opinion or post idea of the administrator that posted it or of the readers that have written guest posts for the Blogmocracy.

Obscene, abusive, or annoying remarks may be deleted or moved to spam for admin review, but the fact that particular comments remain on the site in no way constitutes an endorsement of their content by any other commenter or the admins of this Blogmocracy.

We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.

Play nice!

Comments are closed.

Back to the Top

The Blogmocracy

website design was Built By All of Us