I’m a News and Weather kind of person. I been watching the snow and ice storms all over the U.S. Its been so bad in so many states. We have lucked out here at Ardmore, Oklahoma, only about an inch of ice and snow. But as of this morning, my loooong driveway is still solid ice. Suppose to get up to nearly 50 today, so should melt fast, I hope.
I don’t know if I’m doing something right, or doing something wrong, or people are just bored during this ice storm and surfing the net. My website is up dramatically the past 30 days
Below is a photo of Turner Falls 18 miles north of Ardmore from 2 days ago, icey, icey, icey.
I took this picture looking out from our front porch at the sleet and snow last Saturday. As of this morning, its still here, but should melt fast with expected temperatures to reach nearly 50 degrees today.
When I lived in the NE part of Ardmore around 19 years of age, sometimes I’d stop by Carl Rhodes Photography Shop at 800½ 8th Street Northeast (not L Street as Google AI says). Carl would help me with the 35mm Kodak camera I had at the time. One had to enter settings like distance, focus, shutter speed, etc., manually before taking the picture. Wish I still had that camera.
Reese Hotel in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
I used AI to convert this old 1910 photo of the Confederate Home on South Commerce in Ardmore to color.
HAM Radio Talk By Butch Bridges KC5JVT
Allstar node # 58735 – Echolink # 101960 – HamsOverIP # 103010
With all the ice storms, Mississippi was hit really hard with inches of ice. Power lines down all over the state. Over 100,000 people without power in that state alone. I talked to my HAM radio friend Mike (using my Hams Over IP) in Huntsville, Alabama and he’s doing ok, no power outage. My Cisco IP phone with a special HAM line worked perfectly and crystal clear.
“I remember an ice storm in Ardmore sometime in the 1970s. I was working at Adventist Hospital. You were working with the ambulance service. My 1970 Oldsmobile 98 slid down into the grassy area west of the hospital parking lot when I was attempting to leave for home. You and someone else pushed me up the hill and back on the pavement yelling at me not to stop until I got home. I didn’t stop again but kept giving gas slowly until I arrived home. Remember that?” -Dorothy
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” — Sara Raasch
See everyone next week!
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore Oklahoma
580-490-6823
https://oklahomahistory.net