Have you ever wanted to be a Hooker worker.?ÿ That is a worker based in Hooker, OK.?ÿ Tri-County Electric Cooperative has a couple of openings and you are surely quite qualified for one of them.?ÿ The job title is Staking Coordinator.?ÿ You must be 18 years of age and possess a valid drivers' license.?ÿ The job description says something about providing maximum service to the membership by providing prompt and efficient responses to requests for electric service.?ÿ Plus lots of other flowery things.
Well, for one thing I'm not 18 years of age.?ÿ I'm assuming they meant a minimum age of 18.?ÿ ;)?ÿ But I have been to Hooker.?ÿ Got friends in Hooker.?ÿ And working OR living in Hooker doesn't?ÿ sound like all that much fun...thanks for thinking of me though.
One of the co-op engineers I work with here in Norman is a local fella, but his wife was from up there.?ÿ She had some crazy idea a few years ago they could "move home" and help her aging folks manage the wheat.?ÿ My buddy actually pulled up stakes and went to work for the co-op up there.?ÿ They lasted 2 years.?ÿ He was able to get his old job back here in Cleveland Co.
Being the old nosy SOB that I am I had to ask him about details of their re-relocation.?ÿ Surprisingly it was his wife that went nuts first.?ÿ Even though she had been raised in Baja Oklahoma, the luster and allure of the area had faded.?ÿ School for the kids was a 20 mile (one way) trip.?ÿ All her friends had moved off and her aging mother drove her crazy.?ÿ My buddy said it was the happiest day of his life when his wife said she wanted to move back to Norman.
I will admit that the panhandle of Oklahoma has a stark and solemn beauty all its own.?ÿ And I enjoy a bit of solitude now and again.?ÿ But living there full time would be some hard work.?ÿ
I spent a summer in Norman when I was 8 or 9.?ÿ We lived in an old army barracks (no A/C), I remember the tar melting in the cracks in the street with the sun beating down mercilessly.?ÿ Being a kid, I was running around playing outside and got heat stroke, thought I was going to die.
I spent a summer in Norman when I was 8 or 9.?ÿ We lived in an old army barracks (no A/C), I remember the tar melting in the cracks in the street with the sun beating down mercilessly.?ÿ Being a kid, I was running around playing outside and got heat stroke, thought I was going to die.
sounds just like Norman.?ÿ It hasn't changed a bit.?ÿ 😉
Technically though I bet it was old Navy barracks.?ÿ In WWII Norman was the home of the largest Naval Air Tactical Training Center in the U.S?ÿ (1942 - 1959). Barracks in town have been used for apartments, offices, schools and even a sorority house.?ÿ The house across the street was cabbaged together from a couple of old barracks.
The last recognizable barracks on what us old timers call "South Base" (now part of the university campus) disappeared just three or four years ago.?ÿ The university's ground maintenance crews used it for storage.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ
Interesting.?ÿ I bet it was the South Base we stayed at, because dad was taking linguistics at SIL.?ÿ We lived for about a year in Bethany OK also.?ÿ Dad had become trained as an aircraft mechanic in Culver City CA, and we set of with a family of five, going?ÿ East in search of a job, traveling along route 66.?ÿ We would stop at local airports along the way to seek employment, but with no luck.?ÿ We were fast running out of money when dad was hired at the airport in Bethany.?ÿ We had enough money left to put a deposit down on a rental, and celebrated by going to the local A&W and getting footlongs all around.
@paden-cash?ÿ My wife and her brother are going to be "visiting" Oklahoma in May.?ÿ They have booked a trip with a "Storm Chasing" outfit.?ÿ They are going looking for tornados.?ÿ Kinda crazy to my way of thinking but they both have it on their bucket list.?ÿ I wish absolutely NO HARM to anyone in Oklahoma but I hope they get to see a storm ..... from a distance.
Andy
May is THE month for that.?ÿ I'm 100% sure they will get to see a "storm", better known as a "meso-cyclone" (a storm with rotation), if they're around long enough.?ÿ Catching an actual funnel cloud is a distinct possibility too.?ÿ Just in my day to day surveying I've seen several over the years without ever chasing them.?ÿ
They're best viewed from a distance...?ÿ 😉
here's one from a few years ago:
@paden-cash?ÿ My wife and her brother are going to be "visiting" Oklahoma in May.?ÿ They have booked a trip with a "Storm Chasing" outfit.?ÿ They are going looking for tornados.?ÿ Kinda crazy to my way of thinking but they both have it on their bucket list.?ÿ I wish absolutely NO HARM to anyone in Oklahoma but I hope they get to see a storm ..... from a distance.
Andy
Well Andy, if they become bored or don't find tornadoes terrifying enough they can book a dive shop to participate in this. ?????ÿ
