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Oakley, Check-In Please!

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Hey Oakley, after hearing about all the storms in Oklahoma, just wanted to hear from you. Hope you and your family are ok.

And for anyone else affected by the snow storms, derechos, and other bad weather, feel free to chime in on your situation. We in the south are fluctuating between temps in the 70’s-80’s and the down in the 40’s with gloomy, rainy days most of the time. Unusually warm for Feb.

I thought I posted this a few hours ago but the post never showed up. Houzz gremlins didn’t like it I guess.

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blfenton
last year
We got hit with 30cm (12" ) of snow on Saturday. Fortunately it was a weekend as we do not do snow at all well. Thursday and Friday we hit record lows for those specific days. This weather is very unusual for this time of year. We should be warmer and no snow.
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Allison0704
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@Oakley
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Trapped
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I'm not Oakley, but I live in OK. in the North east part of the state which I think is not too far from where she lives.

The damage in the state that was shown on National TV was in Norman which is more or less in the OK City metro. . A little east of OK City and central south west OK also had some damage. The north-east part of the state was very windy through Sunday night, but no damage.
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pudgeder
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I'm in central OK, and the tornadoes missed us. So did the rain, unfortunately. The hardest hit was south of the OKC metro.
nicole___
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Oakley has liked my post on the oil for your hair thread. I'm guessing she'll check in...?

We're expecting snow, 7" this weekend. Colorado.
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