Back in Oklahoma

Well we've made a complete circle. Ike did his damage in Oklahoma and has destroyed a lot of track with washouts. Our time at home was cut short, to hours in fact. When we were in Illinois I had decided to come back to Oklahoma with Jim as with Scott in WA at the EWG, our other railroad Jim would be spending another month alone in Blackwell at the BNG. I usually can stand two weeks of absence LOL but by three weeks it begins to suck. So we figured a week home and we'd head out again.

Thanks Ike. We had a week of rain from the other storms then Ike put the icing on the cake. Rivers and streams took over and a lot of Oklahoma was made Disaster Areas by the Governor. Jim had called Terri, our conductor and sent her out to do damage control and the news back was devastating to say the least.

We had to go back to TN to pick up mail, do laundry, etc. So we arrived late Monday at about 11PM and I started doing loads of laundry. Jim hit the post office in the morning and paid our electric bill came home and we went to lunch, visited Joyce, Tracy(our outside kitty sitter) and Wal-Mart and by 7 PM were on the road again for Oklahoma. We were exhausted so we pulled into a rest area around 1AM(after trying three of them looking for room) and slept till 6 AM then pulled out for Oklahoma. We arrived here around 4 PM and after a quick set up ( I had to have internet) LOL Jim went off with another Brent (a possible newby to USRP, the parent company) to high rail the railroad and do an inspection so that he can further relay the news to the rest of the board of directors. I'm afraid it will be really bad and have no idea of the outcome of the BNG Railroad. The worst of it is the engine is here in Blackwell with no way out to the main line.

I know he and the others are going to be devastated if the result of this trip is as bad as Terri reported. We have had wash outs before the last a large one last month but usually it is one or two places, not like this. Makes me wonder if he should have chosen the EWG in WA instead they suffer snow and even forest fires..which they just got over last month..where a good deal of track was burnt up. Sometimes it sucks being a new company one step forward and two back...but these guys are real troupers and determined to give their customers their very best service they can.

Well that's it. I'm back in Oklahoma again in my little house on the prairie...yeah right.