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So, Wild Nights
14 years ago
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So for me, I had a great time at the con.
I was a security volunteer, and I hope a few times I didn't come off as an A-hole, I mearely suggested something be done, but if it didn't happen I let it slide. The biggest part of the trip for me tho, was Sunday (which everyone seems to be focused on)
Sunday morning was the marksmanship event. We left at about 10am to make the 30 minuted drive out there. My dumb ass forgot to wait for
Imperiallion (Again, I'm sorry i forgot to wait for yall Leo).
When we got to the area the gun range was at, we couldn't cross a bridge to get there because it was flooded, and I wasn't about to try to cross fast moving water in my Jeep. So we went over to the little park area near the range and pulled out weapons out for others to look at. At this point a group of people decided they were going to head back to camp.
After about an hour out at the little camp, the rest of us packed up and headed back to camp too, but when we got there, the vehicle that left before us hadn't made it back yet, we figured they just went into wilburton to get food.
About an hour later the park ranger showed up and said the vehicle that left first was lost, and asked if anyone at the con had a 4x4 and tow rope to get their vehicle out of the mud they got stuck in. Seeing as i had my jeep, and i was security, I would go.
Pollypuma and 
CJager went with me as well.
We didn't drive far when the ranger pulled off the highway, and here we went up a narrow, oil field road. We in the jeep were thinking there was no possible way the missing van could make it up this road at all, but this was the way the rangers GPS coordinates said the vehicle was. we drove around these road for nearly an hour, turning around several times, going back the way we came and turning down another trail looking for them. Finally we stopped at a spot the ranger called 'The Snow Fields' and we checked my GPS to see where the coord's put them. My GPS put them about 1/2mi away from the gun range!
At this point, the ranger said the gun range was out of his jurisdiction, but he said he would make a call, his office gave him the OK to follow me out to the range. 30ish minutes later we arrived, the creek next to the range was low enough to cross, and we pulled up to another oil field road, this one had a gate across it. The missing group of people could hear the rangers horn and sirens, so they were close, but the ranger didn't have a key to the gate, so his office called the oil company, and they dispatched a truck to us. Another 30 minutes roll by, and the roughneck shows up along with a Latimer county sheriff. At this point, we look to the west and there is a wall cloud heading right at us, the wind is picking up and the clouds have visible rotation.
The roughneck didn't have a key to the fucking gate! The sheriff yelled at us to seek shelter. The 3 of us jumped in my jeep, and I say "fuck this, lets find the side trail to get to them." We drove back around the gun range, but every side trail had a gate! after the third trail, we got a call from our people, saying the sheriff had them, so we turned around and headed back to the highway. We find the ranger and sheriff, and they head out in front of us at breakneck speed, I'm trying to keep up at the speed limit and not doing very well.
We make it to Quinton, and their tornado sirens are going off, but we don't stop to find shelter, and keep going, we get to the other side of town and I just go, we turn on my amber rotary lights and make best speed to camp. We get to camp, and find out that we were just in barely in front of a tornado that was on the ground. I am still in disbelief about that, but we made it to camp. we get another phone call now, and our people are in Wilburton at the sheriff's office, so polly and I jump back in my jeep to go get them, but now OUR access road has 2ft of rushing water over it, and is getting deeper as we watch.
At this point there really isn't anything we can do but wait. In the morning the creek was back down below the top of the bridge, myself and 2 other cars go and collect the 5 people from Wilburton, we pack up, and head home.
There was more that happened in there, the majority of stuff that happened at camp I was not there to see, as I was driving in the storm heading back from this adventure, but you can read it in one of
sangderenard journals. There was also some drama that I refuse to put in that happened during.
Anyhow, this was my experience, and others are sure to post theirs.
*****EDIT*****
This is a video of the entry to the group camp. sorry about the sidewaysness, first video i have taken with the camera, and i am having trouble converting it out of .3gp to something else and editing it to not be sideways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljsMZi8FrQQ
*****EDIT*****
I was a security volunteer, and I hope a few times I didn't come off as an A-hole, I mearely suggested something be done, but if it didn't happen I let it slide. The biggest part of the trip for me tho, was Sunday (which everyone seems to be focused on)
Sunday morning was the marksmanship event. We left at about 10am to make the 30 minuted drive out there. My dumb ass forgot to wait for
Imperiallion (Again, I'm sorry i forgot to wait for yall Leo).When we got to the area the gun range was at, we couldn't cross a bridge to get there because it was flooded, and I wasn't about to try to cross fast moving water in my Jeep. So we went over to the little park area near the range and pulled out weapons out for others to look at. At this point a group of people decided they were going to head back to camp.
After about an hour out at the little camp, the rest of us packed up and headed back to camp too, but when we got there, the vehicle that left before us hadn't made it back yet, we figured they just went into wilburton to get food.
About an hour later the park ranger showed up and said the vehicle that left first was lost, and asked if anyone at the con had a 4x4 and tow rope to get their vehicle out of the mud they got stuck in. Seeing as i had my jeep, and i was security, I would go.
Pollypuma and 
CJager went with me as well.We didn't drive far when the ranger pulled off the highway, and here we went up a narrow, oil field road. We in the jeep were thinking there was no possible way the missing van could make it up this road at all, but this was the way the rangers GPS coordinates said the vehicle was. we drove around these road for nearly an hour, turning around several times, going back the way we came and turning down another trail looking for them. Finally we stopped at a spot the ranger called 'The Snow Fields' and we checked my GPS to see where the coord's put them. My GPS put them about 1/2mi away from the gun range!
At this point, the ranger said the gun range was out of his jurisdiction, but he said he would make a call, his office gave him the OK to follow me out to the range. 30ish minutes later we arrived, the creek next to the range was low enough to cross, and we pulled up to another oil field road, this one had a gate across it. The missing group of people could hear the rangers horn and sirens, so they were close, but the ranger didn't have a key to the gate, so his office called the oil company, and they dispatched a truck to us. Another 30 minutes roll by, and the roughneck shows up along with a Latimer county sheriff. At this point, we look to the west and there is a wall cloud heading right at us, the wind is picking up and the clouds have visible rotation.
The roughneck didn't have a key to the fucking gate! The sheriff yelled at us to seek shelter. The 3 of us jumped in my jeep, and I say "fuck this, lets find the side trail to get to them." We drove back around the gun range, but every side trail had a gate! after the third trail, we got a call from our people, saying the sheriff had them, so we turned around and headed back to the highway. We find the ranger and sheriff, and they head out in front of us at breakneck speed, I'm trying to keep up at the speed limit and not doing very well.
We make it to Quinton, and their tornado sirens are going off, but we don't stop to find shelter, and keep going, we get to the other side of town and I just go, we turn on my amber rotary lights and make best speed to camp. We get to camp, and find out that we were just in barely in front of a tornado that was on the ground. I am still in disbelief about that, but we made it to camp. we get another phone call now, and our people are in Wilburton at the sheriff's office, so polly and I jump back in my jeep to go get them, but now OUR access road has 2ft of rushing water over it, and is getting deeper as we watch.
At this point there really isn't anything we can do but wait. In the morning the creek was back down below the top of the bridge, myself and 2 other cars go and collect the 5 people from Wilburton, we pack up, and head home.
There was more that happened in there, the majority of stuff that happened at camp I was not there to see, as I was driving in the storm heading back from this adventure, but you can read it in one of
sangderenard journals. There was also some drama that I refuse to put in that happened during.Anyhow, this was my experience, and others are sure to post theirs.
*****EDIT*****
This is a video of the entry to the group camp. sorry about the sidewaysness, first video i have taken with the camera, and i am having trouble converting it out of .3gp to something else and editing it to not be sideways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljsMZi8FrQQ
*****EDIT*****
Maybe this will help to hit home to some people exactly how serious our situation really was.~