I know we all have fun with our friends north of the Red River, but thought I'd share a tidbit to their credit.
I live in SA now, been doing a project in San Marcos. On the way home this evening (Wed, 7/23, about 5:45 pm), just about at New Braunfels, I35 traffic came to a near halt. As I came over a hill I saw a caravan of 25-30 big trucks in the middle of the 3 lanes that are I35 at that point.
I got into the fast lane and began passing big truck after big truck. Electric lineman trucks, a few auger trucks for installing power poles, a few bucket trucks to lift workers into place, a few spool trucks with a lot of wire in inventory, and about every 5th truck, a full-sized 1/2 ton pickup full of workers.
All were labelled as trucks from an American Electric Power subsidiary out of Oklahoma, with Okie plates.
I looked up on the horizon to see SA and saw only a dark blue/black curtain of clouds covering SA, thunderboomers on the outskirts, and a quite impressive lightning show going on.
As I continued to pass the caravan, it struck me --- these 150 or so guys were enroute from Oklahoma to the Texas Valley, probably to spend the next 3 or 4 days working round the clock to restore power outages.
One truck had rebar welded on it's tailgate the phrase: "Get er Done!". Another had an old west style longhorn skull on the back. Maybe a Texas transplant, or a fan of westerns, or maybe even a gesture to the great state of Texas.
Regardless, we have a lot of fun on this BBS teasing, haranging, beating up on our neighbors to the north, but on this day, I say God Bless America, God Bless Texas, and God Bless Oklahomans.
I pray they all return to the Sooner Nation safe; it's going to be a dangerous job, regardless of storm category.
Hook 'em
I live in SA now, been doing a project in San Marcos. On the way home this evening (Wed, 7/23, about 5:45 pm), just about at New Braunfels, I35 traffic came to a near halt. As I came over a hill I saw a caravan of 25-30 big trucks in the middle of the 3 lanes that are I35 at that point.
I got into the fast lane and began passing big truck after big truck. Electric lineman trucks, a few auger trucks for installing power poles, a few bucket trucks to lift workers into place, a few spool trucks with a lot of wire in inventory, and about every 5th truck, a full-sized 1/2 ton pickup full of workers.
All were labelled as trucks from an American Electric Power subsidiary out of Oklahoma, with Okie plates.
I looked up on the horizon to see SA and saw only a dark blue/black curtain of clouds covering SA, thunderboomers on the outskirts, and a quite impressive lightning show going on.
As I continued to pass the caravan, it struck me --- these 150 or so guys were enroute from Oklahoma to the Texas Valley, probably to spend the next 3 or 4 days working round the clock to restore power outages.
One truck had rebar welded on it's tailgate the phrase: "Get er Done!". Another had an old west style longhorn skull on the back. Maybe a Texas transplant, or a fan of westerns, or maybe even a gesture to the great state of Texas.
Regardless, we have a lot of fun on this BBS teasing, haranging, beating up on our neighbors to the north, but on this day, I say God Bless America, God Bless Texas, and God Bless Oklahomans.
I pray they all return to the Sooner Nation safe; it's going to be a dangerous job, regardless of storm category.
Hook 'em
