Oklahoma

One of the highlights of our trip to Oklahoma was a visit to Tinker AFB and the static display of planes there. RK's father in law flew B-52's in 'Nam and told us all about his career and B-52's. He actually flew this one (and every other one that was made!).

We saw an Air Force A-7, a Normandy C-47, B-47, F-4, B-29, B-52, F-105, and a B-1.

I wish I had taken some pictures of the rain & flooding we experienced on our trip. Oklahoma City had 18 straight days of rain and received over 10 inches in the month of June. Their normal rainfall for January-June is only 13". The entire area was green like a jungle and completely overgrown from all the moisture. We were in Edmund where the land is hilly (and RED) so there was not much flooding. Each storm that passed filled the creeks to the top and drained away within hours. The low country suffered as the rivers jumped out of their banks and flooded the floodplains.
The storms we experienced were part of a low pressure system that would not move out of the area. It looked like a hurricane on the radar - just continuous bands of thunderstorms spinning around a non-moving center. It rained the entire time we were in Oklahoma. We were glad to see blue skies when we got home to Nebraska.