The Past Two days in Oklahoma, Prayers for these folks

Wow it started on Thursday

And it still goes on today!!

Prayers for Oklahoma residents are needed

all photos are used off of news channels in Okahoma

I was on the central Oklahoma News Facebook Page on Thrusday

Early evening when a report came on about a Large Wildfire 

burning out of control near Luther Oklahoma

Traffic was backed up from folks attempting to evacuate

My hubby immediately got on the phone to his son

The fire had started less then a half a mile from their home

They were so fortunate

As many were not, someone had started this fire 

throwing burning newspapers out of the window of their vehicle

How sad so many have lost homes!!

Then I look at the news page again and had to

check it to make sure what I was reading was correct

Our Niece and her family were on evacuation alert

They live in another Oklahoma town south of where my Mother lives 

They too are fortunate  

Then last night I look again on their facebook page and they are evacuating 

several northern Oklahoma towns!! Entire towns with walls of flames headed to them!

There are many folks who have lost every thing!!

Please pray for people in Oklahoma, and pray that we get some rain

The entire state is in a Burn Ban, the heat has been HORRIBLE!!

You see I can relate so well to these folks

If you can imagine standing in that second picture and watching a wall

of flames coming for your home, there is just no way to describe how

it makes you feel!! we were in one of the Oklahoma Wildfires 

On March the 1st 2006, I still have nightmares from it

WE had highway patrolmen telling us to evacuate

But my hubby and my son and a friend saved our home and our neighbors

home as well, It was terrifying, they threw me and our dog in our pickup, placed the truck 

on some gravel told me to cover my face with a wet towel and said I had to stay put!!

* One of the hardest things I have ever done!!*

Knowing my hubby and son were in the middle of that fire

fighting the fire with one water hose and shovels!

They had no help, there were structures on fire everywhere and a limited

source of pump trucks, and man power!!

both had been volunteer firefighters so I knew they knew what they were up against

but that still does not comfort the Fear that comes over you!

once the fire burned our entire 2 acres to the side of our home they then

parked the pickup in the burnt field and left me there!!

Well I jumped out once my son and his friend ran down the road

directly to the flames to save a neighbors home

I was terrified, for a few days we had planes dumping on fires from the air

The Oklahoma forestry division were camped out in our tiny town with heavy equipment

parked up and down the county roads!

The next day an Oil tank battery blew up just to the south of us

The ground rumbled from the force of the explosion

Panic set in all over again as smoke plumed up so close to us

*hubby reassured me that everything had already burnt so we were ok*

Hot spots burned for a couple of days in the fields all around us

Our land was burnt up to our home all around it

Yes we lived in a tiny country town

Cows and horses, mules, they were all wondering freely

as people scrambled to cut fences and free them from danger!

So on this Sunday morning please take a moment and say a prayer for 

all these folks in Oklahoma that are setting in Shelters that have lost

all they own to something that I can promise nobody ever wants to go through!