Considering a move to NE Oklahoma any advice?

Originally Posted by vanet

We live in the mountains of AZ. As for the weather, I looked at the average and record temps for the area in and around Tulsa, and the 20s are normal lows for the winter and the low 90s are normal highs. I realize all places have freak strorms, but when we have a freak cold spell it drops to 30 or 40 below 0, and regularly gets below 0 at least 20 times a winter. You mention a drought that you down 11 inches a year in rainfall. We only get 11in total. The area I reasearched in OK says average of 36" a year in rainfall, with almost none of it coming in the winter. So even in a drought, you are way ahead of us. I plan on diverting my grey water, and catching rain water just like I do know. Just hopeing for a LITTLE help from mother nature.

One thing my wife is worried about is tornedos. To me they would be preferable to our spring winds, which start in late Feb. and go through June or July (they really never stop, just reduce) pretty much blows 20 to 30 miles per hour all the time with gusts over 100 regularly. My business has plate glass windows rated for 150mph winds, and they have been blown out 3 times in the last 16 years. What other people call a hurricane, we call spring. LOL The joke around here is the early settlers stoped in this valley and hunkered down to wait for the wind to stop blowing and they are still waiting.

Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

Im glad alla thats not here/ Chickens seem to keep ticks down all around the barnyard, and im too old to walk the woods anymore. Ankles wont stand it. Flys wernt no great bother either. I didnt get bit by skeeters but maybe 3 times last summer. I guess alla the water sources were dried up for 2yrs running kept them down. There is a chicken farm around 10 miles away. ONLY ONE. There is NO hog farms within 20 miles I know about.

We didnt get nothing for rain last year, OR the year before, BUT last year, there were people getting 2 cuttings of hay.
I think tim,es a changing. They usta measure rain in a way that somehow accounted for the runoff.. In other words, 5in rain 5or more years ago does as good as a 1in rain or less now as the rains arent as hard and every drop soaks in.
Unfortunatly, for those of us that have ponds, we count on that runoff to keep them full, and for the last 3 yrs that kind of rain has been nonexistant.

Originally Posted by francismilker

I'm with Callie, I've been here most of my life but have traveled enough with former jobs that I HATE Oklahoma. The weather regularly goes from 40 during the night to 85 in the day. (and that's in January). Then, for the last 3 years we've been in a record setting drought. Some parts of the state had over 60 days last summer with 100+ temps. Then, when you factor in the red clay, the dopeheads, the methlabs, ticks, chiggers, copperheads, and did I mention red clay!!!!

If my wife didn't have family members to take care of and tie her down here I would move in a heartbeat!!!