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âThe goal this year is $275,000 and we are at 40% of that goal,â said Helen Stewart, Executive Director. âIt has been slow going this year due to COVID 19, as a majority of businesses are working remotely, and we are not able to campaign as usual by making presentations to local businesses. We are saturating the whole of Stephens County with our direct mail campaign talking to some civic, service and study clubs, using extreme precautions, as we do not want anyone to become sick.â
a worse day for this. probably large tornados parts of west oklahoma and southwestern kansas they need to watch the bull s eye. big weather in dallas oklahoma city and toward tulsa as well. and going on to sunday. moving to the north from southern minnesota all the way down to central texas, and looking at severe weather. and one other story is the heavy rainfall we have had. oklahoma city nine-inches of rain in one day. and look at what this looks like in the woke week. the same area getting rain and there will be a bull s eye on oklahoma and arkansas and texas. ten inches of rain and a major flooding event going on. and for moms and families celebrating we have a lot to go on. and wet and stormy mother s day. you bet.
and some days, in some years, no hurricanes at all. you can t really put it all into one pot and say this is changing the climate. because the word is climate. the word isn t weather. it isn t weather change. it s climate change. this is years and years and years of testing to make sure that this is right or wrong. and i believe, if you put more hot air into a hot air balloon, piers, it s going to go higher. if you put more hot air into the atmosphere, it s going to go higher. the storms are going to get higher. the air is going to get more humid. there will be more severe weather. does the nature of these storms at the moment i ve been in america the last few years. it certainly seems to me there s an escalation in the power. if you look at what happened in oklahoma last week, you look at hurricane sandy, here in new york. it just seems to me that the power of these things is increasing. but is that just a short-term situation? have we had these before in the last 30 years? we h
who have been signing up to this, will they now have to be properly protected more than they are already? no question. look, all government agencies, both at the federal level and state and local levels, have protocols for screening mail. that s the good news here. those protocols actually worked. people identified something suspicious, called emergency services, and were able to sort of quarantine it, if you will, so it wouldn t spread. i expect every state and local government and agency right now are going over protocols and refreshing people s preparedness to be on alert for it. thank you both very much indeed. want to turn now to our other big story tonight, extreme weather. chad myers is live for us in watonga, oklahoma. chasing storms today across the state. chad, what s the latest? well, it just started raining here, piers. but we do know that a lot of weather is still on the way here. behind me, right over my shoulder, an awful lot of lightning over the top of those
tomorrow afternoon. so have to be on the guard, big cities, again, for tomorrow. today was a bad one. we saw wind gusts at least 80 miles per hour, dust flying through the sky. we had horses and cows running just running away from the storm. really nowhere to go, they re not going to run away from a 35-mile-an-hour storm. but it was a very rough day in western nebraska, kansas, oklahoma and texas, piers. chad, i ve got a big debate coming after the break between two people on the opposite sides of the climate change debate. what is your view? you ve been in this game a very long time. what is your view about the effect of a warmer globe, a warmer climate, if you like, on things like tornadoes, hurricanes and storms in general? do you believe it s getting worse? i believe it s getting more severe in both directions. the droughts are getting worse, the severe weather getting worse, maybe hurricanes getting worse, as well.