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Construction Skywatch

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One of the churches in downtown Tulsa is expanding.

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They have two cranes on site. I’m the chief sidewalk inspector. I love construction and cranes and stuff like that. Here is what they are working on.

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Somehow, it looks like they are building the new addition up in the air.

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But they are not!

Skywatch Friday

Yellow Skies

Last week we had some storms blow through northeast Oklahoma. We basically went from drouth to floods in a few hours. After it blew through it looked really bright outside even though it was late evening.

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The sky was yellow. It was surreal. We also had mammatus clouds. Wikiepedia says that mammatus clouds are associated with strong storms.

Yellow Mammatus Cloud

What got me was that not only was the sky strange looking but the dim yellowish light made everything seem strange. These are Sweeties normally beautiful knockout roses.

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It was all disconcerting. Eventually everything cleared up.

Oh, well, another day in tornado alley.

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Early Morning Texas Aggie Moon

Texas Aggie Moon

Them Texans sure like to fly their state flags. They fly them more than the US flags it seems sometimes. In downtown San Antonio they were flying the Texas A&M University flag also.

I’ve had a few questions from people who don’t know what Aggies are. Texas A&M is a large state run university based in College Station, Texas with branches throughout the state. It is a great school with outstanding programs in a number of fields including Engineering and Agriculture. They are well known for their Corps of Cadets which supplies the United States Army with a great number of officers.

The students are known as Aggies. Aggie jokes are a staple of humor in Texas.

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