Certainly anyone who has turned on the TV or read a newspaper recently is aware of the pretty active hurricane season that's been going on, especially in the Caribbean this season. Even those of us on the Southern Plains, some distance from the Gulf, have dealt with the fringe winds and rain.

But we don't have to import the kind of weather that knocks out electricity, we make plenty of our own around here.

We've even had winters, such as in 2006-07, where ice and snow did a lot of destruction to roofs, fences and trees, as well as knocking out power. The hardest hit areas were northeast and central Oklahoma. But, those storms made the national news and ...