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^ these pictures were taken on the drive back home Saturday afternoon because it was dark when we drove north...but who knew southern Oklahoma was so beautiful? This is between Ardmore and Paul's Valley in a region known as the Arbuckle Mountains....I will be coming back here to go camping when the weather warms up some more.
It began sleeting just after we got through Paul's Valley at around 1:30am, and by the time we finally found a 24-hour McDonald's (THEY ALL CLOSED AT MIDNIGHT!
) in Norman there was moderate snow falling with a dusting on everything.The forecast was calling for 3-6 inches in OKC proper, with closer to 2-3 inches down by Norman and more like 5-6 inches out by El Reno and Edmond....so I decided to head out on I-40. We were the ONLY car heading west. Signs were posted warning that I-40 was closed at the OK/TX state line so I figured we should stop in El Reno before we reached all the hotels that were full of stranded travelers closer to Amarillo. There was about an inch of snow on the ground there and it was snowing lightly, at about 3 in the morning.
Unfortunately when we woke up there was still only about an inch of snow....more snow than I'd seen in over a year, but not the reason we came to Oklahoma. I was really hoping to get as close to the blizzard as we could without getting stuck in it. So we drove north on I-81 out of El Reno, towards small towns like Okarche, Kingfisher, Dover, Hennessey and Bison, on our way to Enid.
^ If you look closely, you can see the snow still flying through the air in El Reno at about 11am on Saturday.
^ The snowpack got deeper as we continued northward. At times, the snowfall became heavy and reduced visibilities to around a quarter of a mile.
Keeping in mind that I had to be at work way back down in Denison, TX at 6pm, we stopped in Enid at about 1pm. Talk about a winter wonderland! There's a city park at the corner of US 81 and US 412/60/64 and the snow was beautiful.
Ultimately, Enid only saw about 3-4 inches of snow, but it was more than enough to play around in and be little kids. It was great.
I wish we didn't have to leave, but I gotta pay my bills (including the hotel room, fast food, and gas!) so at 2pm we left Enid and drove east on US 64/412 to I-35 and shot back down to Gainesville, and then over to Denison, where there was no snow by that afternoon.
