[Lowfer] Oklahoma beacon ops How are you?

[mikea]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:12:43PM -0500, Eric Smith wrote:
> UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> 
> All well here, thanks for asking.  I live on the north side of
> Oklahoma City and the worst of this event was on the south side of
> town.  I saw video of cars being picked up and rolled off the highway
> with people still in them, you could see the brake lights.  I mean the
> vehicles rolled over and over, not the wheels rolling.
> 
> On the news today they said there were only three recorded tornados in
> Oklahoma this year until yesterday where something like 21 were
> recorded.

I don't run any lowfer/medfer/hifer gear -- yet. But I live in Norman, OK,
one of the places where Things Got Interesting, about 30 miles south of
Eric. We were very most fortunate that there weren't many more fatalities
and many more injuries.

You're invited to have a look at <http://mikea.ath.cx/tornado.html> for
my perspective on it all. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin