TULSA, Okla. – With Tulsa buried by its snowiest winter on record and few snowplows in sight, an army of citizens has stepped in where the city failed, putting plows on their pickups to clear streets, checking on senior citizens and even lining up behind stalled cars to push them up highway ramps.
The city has been hit by three winter blasts in less than a week, and many streets are still choked with snow. With cleanup efforts moving slowly, if at all, ordinary people took matters into their own hands to help dig out.
Other drivers put slow blades on their trucks. And on the slickest roads, it was not uncommon to see drivers pull over, gather behind a stalled vehicle and attempt to push it out of the snow or up the next exit ramp.
In the wake of the latest storm, icy temperatures descended on the Plains and parts of the South on Thursday, leaving ranchers and farmers to fret about the welfare of livestock left outside in up to 2 feet of snow.
The thermometer read minus 31 degrees in Nowata, Okla., breaking the state's previous record low of minus 27 degrees set in 1905 and matched in 1930.
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Well, here's an interesting case. Perhaps some of the PO.com forum dwellers from this area can tell us if this is actually happening....
but it looks as though some people are helping themselves, and each other, rather than waiting for some munificent force to swoop down and take care of them.... and they appear not to be busting into stores, and burning the place down in the face of disaster... There is no "mad max" scenario. Apparently just the opposite.
This looks more like "social cohesion" rather than "societal breakdown"...
Maybe it's just too cold. Dunno what to make of it.
