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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4278094" data-attributes="member: 26737">I remember the Memorial Day storm of &#039;84. We stayed at my mom&#039;s folks&#039; place out in far east BA the night of the storm, and my dad and I stayed up late watching the coverage on the little TV in the kitchen (which was odd, as my dad was always an &quot;early to bed, early to rise&quot; kind of guy). The guys on the TV were talking about how the radar said the storm was moving to the east at whatever speed, but it was building to the west and dissipating to the east, so it was effectively just sitting over Tulsa and dumping rain.The next day we drove through Tulsa on our way to the annual get-together with my dad&#039;s family at Cleveland and Keystone, and you could see the high water marks on the walls next to the highways. Some of them were about eight feet above the roadway. There was one particular underpass with an abandoned late-&#039;60s/early-&#039;70s drop-top Corvette with the front of its convertible roof partially open. I thought it looked like he&#039;d driven into the water at speed and the water had peeled it back, but it seems more likely that he opened it to get out, because, based on the high water marks, the car would&#039;ve been completely submerged.That was one wicked storm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4278094, member: 26737"] I remember the Memorial Day storm of '84. We stayed at my mom's folks' place out in far east BA the night of the storm, and my dad and I stayed up late watching the coverage on the little TV in the kitchen (which was odd, as my dad was always an "early to bed, early to rise" kind of guy). The guys on the TV were talking about how the radar said the storm was moving to the east at whatever speed, but it was building to the west and dissipating to the east, so it was effectively just sitting over Tulsa and dumping rain. The next day we drove through Tulsa on our way to the annual get-together with my dad's family at Cleveland and Keystone, and you could see the high water marks on the walls next to the highways. Some of them were about eight feet above the roadway. There was one particular underpass with an abandoned late-'60s/early-'70s drop-top Corvette with the front of its convertible roof partially open. I thought it looked like he'd driven into the water at speed and the water had peeled it back, but it seems more likely that he opened it to get out, because, based on the high water marks, the car would've been completely submerged. That was one wicked storm. [/QUOTE]

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