Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Wore loafers for many years. Switched to low cut hiking boots for more support when I started waking up in the middle of the night with my feet hurting.

After going through the nail thing the doc set me up with some very expensive custom fit orthopedic shoes, $400 for a pair of shoes! They are very plain black oxfords, ugly as all get out, but man, they are the most comfortable shoes I've ever had.

The shoes I have with the loooong laces are Propet and 11 5e.

[Flieger]

I usually buy the cheapest running/walking/athletic shoes from Big 5 as long as they don't look terrible and are not uncomfortable. Almost always they have obscenely long laces. I always just buy new laces and swap the ones that are round (string covered in fabric) for more durable flat braided ones. But this time the laces just barely squeaked by so I left them. Partly because they were blue and went with the shoes better than my normal flat white laces.

I still need to tie the right laces lop-sided so as to keep them out of the grease on my bike chain wheels.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Rick V

I can not imagine living in an area where a bomb shelter from mother nature is a normal thing, although I do know mother nature can be a wicked, cold hearted beiotch. I hope you never need it Glen (or anybody else)

I have lived in Oklahoma since the late 70s and I have only seen one tornado in person. That was just a medium little F2. It was almost two miles away from my house. My grandparents on both sides lived here since the early 1900s and never had any tornado damage at all. Same with my parents. Tornadoes really are rare, even here.

[porsche4life]

Unless you live in Moore...

[HHI944]

Pissed off some yankees....oh well, damn coon shouldn't have been walking towards me on my patio...almost certainly rabid given behavior

[RKDinOKC]

"It's comin right at us! Bang Bang Bang..." —Uncle Jimbo, Southpark

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Unless you live in Moore...

Moore got hammered twice by the biggest baddest tornadoes possible. It was still just a small strip of land that was hit. The center of the destructions was utter and devastating, but just a couple of blocks away was fine. No doubt Moore got hit hard, twice.



That storm was predicted a week before it formed. The day before the forecast was for a big storm and the warning to be weather aware was repeated over and over. That afternoon we watched on live TV the storm form up 100 miles away. It was broadcast live on at least three TV stations as it hit the ground and came northeast. It was like listening to the Storm Trooper music from Star Wars, it was coming and there was nothing to do but get ready. We watched it on TV at our house and we were relieved it was going to south OKC and not even close to our part of town. We never even lost electricity in our part of town. The city mobilized and the help poured into Moore. 36 people died in that one. Most of them in their cars or under bridges. That is the wrong thing to do.

[Jim Richards]

I've had a couple of near misses with tornadoes. Luckily, the worst damage was a bend window screen and a tree knocked down into our yard.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all.

[GH85Carrera]

I heard a meteorologist once state that every county of every state in the Continental US has had at least one tornado. No one is totally immune, but they are indeed really rare in some parts of the country. I would imagine Death Valley and the desert southwest don't have many. Normally May is the biggest month for tornadoes in Oklahoma. This year we have only had three. One of them was a F0 that was gone in under 60 seconds. It knocked over a BBQ grill and moved a round bale of hay.

[Porsche-poor]

they have had a few here this year but really wimpy ones. The kind that rip up car ports and kid toys.

[RKDinOKC]

Sharknado 2 is coming!

[RKDinOKC]

Okay, NOW it feels like Thursday..

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Sharknado 2 is coming!

I heard they were working on combining sharks and earthquakes next.

[RKDinOKC]

Shark Happens

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Shark Happens

Not around here!

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have lived in Oklahoma since the late 70s and I have only seen one tornado in person. That was just a medium little F2. It was almost two miles away from my house. My grandparents on both sides lived here since the early 1900s and never had any tornado damage at all. Same with my parents. Tornadoes really are rare, even here.

I have seen three, two at my parent's house in Hazel Green and one near Dekalb in the car. That one was a bit scary.

[RKDinOKC]

Got an invite. Andy Brant is putting together a track day at Hallett on a Wednesday the end of June. 15 cars, cost is $350 for the day. Not very interested since I can't heel and toe yet.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Got an invite. Andy Brant is putting together a track day at Hallett on a Wednesday the end of June. 15 cars, cost is $350 for the day. Not very interested since I can't heel and toe yet.

You can still drive it using two feet and have lots of fun.

[flipper35]

Left foot brake and match revs to shift without the clutch?