Posted: 3/31/2010 6:30:40 PM EDT
Looks like I will be PCSing to Tinker AFB here in about a month. Its pretty short notice so I thought I would check in here and see what info I could come up with. I am in need of a place to live, and just any info on the OKC area. I will look through the firearms related stuff you already have posted, but any info at all will be a huge help. Thanks 
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OKC....meh.............it's the big city.........................who cares?  Well, I know I don't live there now, but I used to and I can tell you DON'T live anywhere around Tinker. Try Shawnee, Norman, Warr Acres, Bethany (at least when I lived there). That is still pretty accurate. I would add Moore as a place to live. It is closer than any of the ones listed above and is up and coming. I live there now and property values have been on the rise along with better shopping. It is also a good location to go to Norman if you are into college type partying or OKC for the bigger stuff. |
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My new office is just a few blocks north of Tinker, but I live on the southwest side of town. I'd add Moore as well, that's not a bad area. Avoid Lawton, people like Chucks1911 live down that way. If you have real class, you'll look up on the northwest side.
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My new office is just a few blocks north of Tinker, but I live on the southwest side of town. I'd add Moore as well, that's not a bad area. Avoid Lawton, people like Chucks1911 live down that way. Thets raht. We dont take kindly to strangers coming down this-a-way. So yu big city fellers stay up thar, lessen yu got a purty mouf
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My new office is just a few blocks north of Tinker, but I live on the southwest side of town. I'd add Moore as well, that's not a bad area. Avoid Lawton, people like Chucks1911 live down that way. Thets raht. We dont take kindly to strangers coming down this-a-way. So yu big city fellers stay up thar, lessen yu got a purty mouf
To add a simple thought to Chuck's comment, if you can play the banjo and only have two teeth, Chuck and his friends would welcome you with open arms. 
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Zoomie = Air Force. Squid = Navy. Jarhead = Marine. Inbred banjo player = Army? Marines = On foreign shores, making mothers out of whores Navy = On ships and boats, making love to sheep and goats Army = A bunch of queers, sanitation engineers
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As long as you don't refer to yourself as "SF", we won't mock you relentlessly. We may even invite you to shoots. Someone has to make us coffee.
Coming from a soon to be recruiter? 
After six months of recruiting duty, your teeth may be stained from all the coffee and your ass will be five sizes bigger from chair spread.
But don't feel bad about it. I beat you to the bigger ass about 10 years ago.
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Quoted: Moore has a way of attracting tornadoes, world record setting ones. I'm only 24, but any of the big twisters to hit the metro seem to make a stop in Moore for sure.Quoted: Quoted: OKC....meh.............it's the big city.........................who cares? Well, I know I don't live there now, but I used to and I can tell you DON'T live anywhere around Tinker. Try Shawnee, Norman, Warr Acres, Bethany (at least when I lived there). That is still pretty accurate. I would add Moore as a place to live. It is closer than any of the ones listed above and is up and coming. I live there now and property values have been on the rise along with better shopping. It is also a good location to go to Norman if you are into college type partying or OKC for the bigger stuff. |
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Moore has a way of attracting tornadoes, world record setting ones. I'm only 24, but any of the big twisters to hit the metro seem to make a stop in Moore for sure.
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OKC....meh.............it's the big city.........................who cares? Well, I know I don't live there now, but I used to and I can tell you DON'T live anywhere around Tinker. Try Shawnee, Norman, Warr Acres, Bethany (at least when I lived there). That is still pretty accurate. I would add Moore as a place to live. It is closer than any of the ones listed above and is up and coming. I live there now and property values have been on the rise along with better shopping. It is also a good location to go to Norman if you are into college type partying or OKC for the bigger stuff. Thats one thing that has my wife worried. Coming from WA we have never seen a tornado. When I rent a place what do I need to look for to keep the little lady safe?` |
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Moore has a way of attracting tornadoes, world record setting ones. I'm only 24, but any of the big twisters to hit the metro seem to make a stop in Moore for sure.
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OKC....meh.............it's the big city.........................who cares? Well, I know I don't live there now, but I used to and I can tell you DON'T live anywhere around Tinker. Try Shawnee, Norman, Warr Acres, Bethany (at least when I lived there). That is still pretty accurate. I would add Moore as a place to live. It is closer than any of the ones listed above and is up and coming. I live there now and property values have been on the rise along with better shopping. It is also a good location to go to Norman if you are into college type partying or OKC for the bigger stuff. Thats one thing that has my wife worried. Coming from WA we have never seen a tornado. When I rent a place what do I need to look for to keep the little lady safe?` Probably a sign that says Tornadoes and Lightning Not Allowed Here 
Seriously, there is not much you can do because there is no predicting where a tornado will hit, just like lightning. If you can find a house with a storm shelter, go for it. But the figures are approximately that only one in 60 homes in Oklahoma has a storm shelter. |
I remember as a young kid in the late 60's, early 70's......we had so many bad-ass, tornado bearing storms come rolling thorough...that my mother redecorated the storm cellar!
We liked to all got killed down at Lindsey(visiting my sister) when a tornado came strolling through the edge of town. She didn't have a storm shelter, we spent the storm with puckered ass's and mops! Mopping up all the water that was spraying in under the windows and doors(from all for directions at once)........we were saved by a levee directly behind the house. The big levee forced the tornado into the air....skipped sister's house(except substantial quanitys of shingles gone), then promptly dropped to the ground and shredded everything else in it's path.
Don't under-estimate a tornado...or a damn good Oklahoma wind storm. They can be spectacular(and occasionaly..deadly) !! |
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Moore has a way of attracting tornadoes, world record setting ones. I'm only 24, but any of the big twisters to hit the metro seem to make a stop in Moore for sure.
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OKC....meh.............it's the big city.........................who cares? Well, I know I don't live there now, but I used to and I can tell you DON'T live anywhere around Tinker. Try Shawnee, Norman, Warr Acres, Bethany (at least when I lived there). That is still pretty accurate. I would add Moore as a place to live. It is closer than any of the ones listed above and is up and coming. I live there now and property values have been on the rise along with better shopping. It is also a good location to go to Norman if you are into college type partying or OKC for the bigger stuff. Thats one thing that has my wife worried. Coming from WA we have never seen a tornado. When I rent a place what do I need to look for to keep the little lady safe?` Probably a sign that says Tornadoes and Lightning Not Allowed Here
Seriously, there is not much you can do because there is no predicting where a tornado will hit, just like lightning. If you can find a house with a storm shelter, go for it. But the figures are approximately that only one in 60 homes in Oklahoma has a storm shelter. Yep. When I bought my house in Moore I definitely made sure it had a storm shelter. In my case it is a rather small, unobtrusive one in the garage just big enough for me and my family. Not made to live in, made to save our lives. I sleep so much better with that thing in the house. Haven't had to use it yet and hope we never will. But we have ran through the drill and it works. If you are looking to buy you might consider that as a condition of your new house. I didn't realize I wanted one until I saw it and then it was 'SOLD!'. |
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.....If you are looking to buy you might consider that as a condition of your new house. I didn't realize I wanted one until I saw it and then it was 'SOLD!'. The house I am in now doesn't have a storm cellar. At the old house, I had a 8x12 storm cellar with 6'6" ceiling with a patio on top of the storm cellar. I'm trying to get my wife to let me put one in this house. It's only 5 years old and she's not too hip on changing anything about it. I'll get one in some day, but it's not going to be like the old one. Everybody in the neighborhood knocked on our door at one time or another asking if they could take shelter from the storm. It only took one time for a large crowd in there for me to start saying no to EVERYONE. My sister in law and kids, her neighbor and kids, my in-laws, next door neighbor and her two kids, the old lady next door, etc at one time was too much for that little 100 sq ft storm cellar. Bigger is not better for a storm cellar. Just big enough for your family is just right!!!!!! |
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.....If you are looking to buy you might consider that as a condition of your new house. I didn't realize I wanted one until I saw it and then it was 'SOLD!'. The house I am in now doesn't have a storm cellar. At the old house, I had a 8x12 storm cellar with 6'6" ceiling with a patio on top of the storm cellar. I'm trying to get my wife to let me put one in this house. It's only 5 years old and she's not too hip on changing anything about it. I'll get one in some day, but it's not going to be like the old one. Everybody in the neighborhood knocked on our door at one time or another asking if they could take shelter from the storm. It only took one time for a large crowd in there for me to start saying no to EVERYONE. My sister in law and kids, her neighbor and kids, my in-laws, next door neighbor and her two kids, the old lady next door, etc at one time was too much for that little 100 sq ft storm cellar. Bigger is not better for a storm cellar. Just big enough for your family is just right!!!!!! Yup. Fits me, the Mrs, our two kiddos, and dog with NO more room. As I said, it was here when I got the house but is very unnoticeable. Looks like they just cut a rectangle out of the concrete and dropped it right in. About 3 feet wide and little over 7 feet long. Can pull cars over it and everything. Company is 'Storme scape' (that is how it is spelled) if you are interested. So much peace of mind. Can sit and watch the weather without getting anxious and wondering 'What if'. What if?? I'm taking the family in the cellar is what if. Simple as that. OP, being new to OK, it would take a great load off your mind. ETA: It also flood free being indoors. |
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My old house had a fricken concrete bunker....suitable(except the door) for fending off nuclear strikes.
During the infamous 'May 3 tornados' it housed three familys...and we had quite a beer drunk going on....didn't know Moore got cleaned out until we emerged from the bunker
I noticed the new house across the street was built around an internal safe room. The house itself is an oddity, basicaly a nice barn turned into a house, but it does have a hell of a sturdy looking safe room right square in the middle. Our new house lacks a proper storm shelter. So we do the 'inside room' thing.....and hole up in the bathroom if it gets close. Think I'm going to build another bunker soon. |
Oh...don't get all skeered! .....We're just telling our tornado storys.
Really quite a few homes have storm shelters, even rent homes. Lot of the older houses had them...more so than some newer ones(except ones newer than May 3 1999 )
If you end up in a house without a shelter, check out your neighbors shelter situation. Don't know what to tell you about apartments? Probably the usual advice...take shelter on ground floor, internal room(generally bathroom/large closet). On a personal basis...you will hopefully find tornados a rather rare encounter...however you hear about them fairly often in the spring and summer. Being in a tornado is lot less likely than a car wreck. Although, it is wise to prepare as much as possible.....including having water, maybe a bit of non perishable food, batterys, lights, etc. Most folks will have a storm kit of some sort...some as simple as a flashlight with dead batterys! 
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I am not sure if I want to buy off the bat. What are my chances of renting a place with a shelter? or what the hell would I do if I lived in an apartment? Not sure what the odds are of renting a house with a shelter. Guessing it is about the same odds as buying one with a shelter. The OKC Metro has lots of 'safe places' for you to go and if it got really bad I imagine you are no more than a few minutes from one just about anywhere you live. The news channels are pretty good about sounding the alarm and giving you plenty of heads up, especially with the newer radars and stuff over the last ten years or so. Heck, an interior room can work in a pinch. This time of year is perhaps the 'worst' of tornado season and as another poster said you are probably more likely to get in a car wreck than get caught in a tornado. It's really not too much to worry about. Just enough concern to keep it in the back of your head but that is about it. I never worried about a shelter or had use for one until I had the kiddos. Then, of course, your priorities change. I lived for several years in an apartment just a mile or so from where the May 3rd tornado hit and don't think there was one siren that entire time. Its understandable to be concerned if you aren't from around here. Completely understandable. But don't think that you'll be running around dodging tornadoes (I have relatives that refuse to visit because they are convinced that we are always narrowly missing getting hit). ETA: Came all the way back to let you know that hail is more of a concern than tornadoes. Get some covered parking!! |
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I am not sure if I want to buy off the bat. What are my chances of renting a place with a shelter? or what the hell would I do if I lived in an apartment? Not sure what the odds are of renting a house with a shelter. Guessing it is about the same odds as buying one with a shelter. The OKC Metro has lots of 'safe places' for you to go and if it got really bad I imagine you are no more than a few minutes from one just about anywhere you live. The news channels are pretty good about sounding the alarm and giving you plenty of heads up, especially with the newer radars and stuff over the last ten years or so. Heck, an interior room can work in a pinch. This time of year is perhaps the 'worst' of tornado season and as another poster said you are probably more likely to get in a car wreck than get caught in a tornado. It's really not too much to worry about. Just enough concern to keep it in the back of your head but that is about it. I never worried about a shelter or had use for one until I had the kiddos. Then, of course, your priorities change. I lived for several years in an apartment just a mile or so from where the May 3rd tornado hit and don't think there was one siren that entire time. Its understandable to be concerned if you aren't from around here. Completely understandable. But don't think that you'll be running around dodging tornadoes (I have relatives that refuse to visit because they are convinced that we are always narrowly missing getting hit). ETA: Came all the way back to let you know that hail is more of a concern than tornadoes. Get some covered parking!! this i didnt know. thanks! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I am not sure if I want to buy off the bat. What are my chances of renting a place with a shelter? or what the hell would I do if I lived in an apartment? Not sure what the odds are of renting a house with a shelter. Guessing it is about the same odds as buying one with a shelter. The OKC Metro has lots of 'safe places' for you to go and if it got really bad I imagine you are no more than a few minutes from one just about anywhere you live. The news channels are pretty good about sounding the alarm and giving you plenty of heads up, especially with the newer radars and stuff over the last ten years or so. Heck, an interior room can work in a pinch. This time of year is perhaps the 'worst' of tornado season and as another poster said you are probably more likely to get in a car wreck than get caught in a tornado. It's really not too much to worry about. Just enough concern to keep it in the back of your head but that is about it. I never worried about a shelter or had use for one until I had the kiddos. Then, of course, your priorities change. I lived for several years in an apartment just a mile or so from where the May 3rd tornado hit and don't think there was one siren that entire time. Its understandable to be concerned if you aren't from around here. Completely understandable. But don't think that you'll be running around dodging tornadoes (I have relatives that refuse to visit because they are convinced that we are always narrowly missing getting hit). ETA: Came all the way back to let you know that hail is more of a concern than tornadoes. Get some covered parking!! this i didnt know. thanks! If you value anything you own make sure it's covered during hail season ( which is coseasonal ((Did I just make up a legit word?)) with tornado season). |