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Originally Posted by AFCM
What all has Oklahoma experienced, natural or manmade, say...over the last 100 years. Off the top of my head, I came up with the following:
Dust Bowl
Tropical Storm Erin
Fastest recorded winds on earth and countless tornadoes
Murrah bombing
Several earthquakes
Severe Floods
Have I missed anything else? It seems Oklahoma has been affected by nearly every calamity known to man. I'm surprised the 10 Plagues of Egypt and the dinosaur-ending asteroid didn't happen right here in our great state. What else have I missed, and what do you guys remember from the 1980 eruption?
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Well, obviously we're prone to huge ice storms like the one that devastated central Oklahoma last winter.
We're also subject to huge weather changes like the infamous "Blue Norther" on November 11, 1911. It's the only date left in the record books on which the existing record high and record low temperatures were recorded on the same day. An Arctic front roared into the state and plunged the temperature reading at Oklahoma City from an afternoon high of 83°F to a midnight low of 17°F. The temperature fell to 14°F on the morning of the 12th - a drop of 69 degrees in less than 24 hours.