I was stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in 1953-1955. There was a terrific rain. I know this couldn�t be right but as I remember hearing over the radio there was 7 � inches of rain in 35 minutes. In all my long life I�ve never heard any thing close to that so I no doubt heard it wrong. However the rain was so bad that the helicopters on base were rescuing people from their farmhouses that were surrounded by water. All roads in and out of Oklahoma City were closed. A few days after the rain a group of us drove up to OKC to see what was going on and bulldozers were dozing mud from the still closed highway we were on at the outskirts into OKC.

While stationed at FS I remember a small town in Northern OK by the name of Blackwell I think, that was wiped out by a tornado and finding only a dog alive. That�s my memory anyway. What did strike me back then in the countryside were all the tornado shelters consisting of a large mound of dirt with a doorway going inside.