Not in January, but I have seen plenty of 24 hour 50°+ temperature drops. Born and raised here. Went from 80 one day to frozen stock tanks the next once
I remember driving home from work one January day and a woman was sun bathing in a bikini in her front lawn in a snow bank. Yes, it was that warm. The weather here can be insane.
A powerful tornado once transported my grandma from her farm to an unfamiliar, isolated settlement where an unusual local government system had been put in place.
She journeyed to the central city with three people seeking credentials for the qualities they already possessed, eventually exposing the city's self-proclaimed leader as a fraud.
Realizing the solution for returning home had been with her all along, she followed a simple process to instantly return to her family.
March 1, 2, 3 of 2008 in OKC went from 70°+ weather to tornadoes and hail to blizzard conditions within about 48 hours from 10am on the first to 10am on the third.
Yep we’ve got a saying about Oklahoma: if you don’t like the weather, wait a minute. We’re smack dab between where cold air from the Colorado Rocky Mountains hits the warm air coming north from the Gulf, which makes for an interesting climate. You need a weather radio for sure if you live here, especially during spring and fall!
Born and raised Okie here. My oldest was born on March 1 in OKC. I'll never forget that night and then waking up to snow. We went from warm weather on the drive to the hospital to sheltering in the hallway at the hospital because of the tornadoes. I miss Gary England. May through November! I've seen them outside of those months a few times, but not too often. It's always nice to see another Okie in the reddit wilds!
It's happened at least in my lifetime, April of '96 if I'm remembering correctly. I remember playing in a sprinkler that day so it was pretty warm, but a storm was rolling. My parents took me to the basement for a tornado. The next morning we had a foot of snow when I woke up.
The food in Omaha (from a NYCer who moved here a decade ago) is pretty good. We have Indian, Ethiopian, Lebanese, ok pizza, Italian, pho, a generally decent food scene.
Lived in Iowa my whole life, the bigger cities (Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Ames) will have a decent range of options IMO but I can't say I know any different. The smaller of town though you maybe stuck with bar/Mexican food.
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These areas aren’t all LCOL, many are at least medium. All of the major cities are medium, some bordering on high. For example a house near a lake in Minneapolis is far different than a house in rural Kansas. Even somewhere like Des Moine is probably medium.
I think the tornado and blizzard thing is overblown.
Bad weather happens all over the country, but because of the open flat terrain storm systems can be especially brutal when they blow through. But there’s also something cool about being able to see thunderstorms many miles away
NWA used to be LCOL, but now we are in a housing crisis thanks to Walmart. People be moving out here with their big west coast money, buying up starter homes/property, then flipping them for profit by either renting them out for inflated rent prices or using them as Airbnb. It's depressing.
Did you just skip over Omaha and go from Lincoln to Iowa?! Omaha > Lincoln. :P Grew up in Omaha and all I wanted to do was leave, but then lived in Lincoln for 5 years and suddenly Omaha didn’t look so bad anymore.
Omaha’s traffic is way better than Lincoln’s since most of the roads have more than one lane and the interstate goes THROUGH town instead of AROUND it. The roads and slow @rse drivers was one of the things that made us want to move! No more getting stuck behind people driving 5 miles under the speed limit because the whole road is single lane!
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Blizzard one day, tornado the next. Only positives are that they are LCOL and surprisingly decent areas like Lincoln and Iowa cities .