Anyone who lived in Oklahoma in 1999 knows the significance of the date May 3rd. On that date in 1999 74 tornadoes rampaged Oklahoma and Kansas, one of which was an EF5 twister in the Oklahoma City area. The strongest of those tracked for an hour and a half along a 38-mile path. The death […]
When Hurricane Katrina passed near New Orleans in August of 2005, it wasn’t the storm itself that took the lives of nearly 1500 people and displaced many more. Although the wind and the rain caused severe property damage, the real culprit was the massive flooding that ensued as a result of the failure of the […]
One fine day in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a child returned from playing at a friend’s house, panic set in when she spotted a fire struck in front of her home. She was relieved to find her family safe, and no signs of fire damage to their home. The real damage was in their backyard, which […]