B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

I’m always one instructional YouTube video away from a very competent individual

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Oklahoma the tornado siren went off.

I knew exactly what to do. I am Japanese. We drill for disasters the way other nations drill for war.

I had a helmet. I had a flashlight. I had a whistle, a radio, three days of water, and a laminated evacuation map I made myself.

I got under the table.

Then I heard laughter. Outside.

I looked through the window.

My entire street was on their porches.

Lawn chairs. Coolers. A man was grilling.

I want to be very clear. The sky was green. The sirens were singing the song of the end of the world. And Dale from next door was flipping burgers and watching the horizon like it was a football game.

He saw me in the window, in my helmet, and waved me over.

I asked him, should we not take shelter.

He looked at the sky for a long moment, the way my grandfather looked at the sea.

He said, "It's still two counties over."

Two counties. He measured the apocalypse in counties. Casually. The way you say the pizza is ten minutes away.

Then he handed me a lemonade and explained the system.

The siren does not mean hide. The siren means come outside and check.

You go inside when the weatherman takes off his jacket.

You go to the shelter when he rolls up his sleeves.

I thought he was joking. He was not joking. In Oklahoma the weatherman is not a man on television. He is a prophet. Families have trusted the same one for thirty years. Children stay calm in storms because his voice is calm.

Japan built satellites to watch the sky. Oklahoma watches one man's sleeves.

Both systems work.

Then the sky turned a green I have never seen, and the birds went silent, and every person on every porch stood up at the same time, without a word, like a church rising for a hymn.

The weatherman rolled up his sleeves.

Dale turned off the grill, picked up his chair, and said, "Alright, come on."

His whole family, and me, went down into the shelter under his garage. His wife had snacks ready. His daughter asked me about my helmet. We waited out the storm the way you wait out rain at a bus stop.

It passed north of us.

We came up. The porches refilled. Dale turned the grill back on.

I asked him if he is ever afraid.

He said, "Sure. That's why we watch."

I have lived in Japan for forty years and I have never once watched.

We prepare for nature. We hide from it, respectfully, behind walls our grandfathers spent lifetimes building.

In Oklahoma they sit on the porch and greet it by name.

I understand now. This is not recklessness.

It is a very old kind of courage. The kind where fear and dinner happen at the same time.

The burgers were excellent.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The Sandlot has the single greatest vision of American life ever put on film.

This scene is what it’s all about. 🇺🇸

[DR JANE RUBY™️ @RealDrJaneRuby]

How to legally and lawfully GET RID OF ALL @Flock_Safety

🚨 Flock has a hidden weakness many don’t know: public records requests.

Activists have successfully forced at least 8 cities to shut down Flock programs, either by exposing unauthorized data access or showing the footage was publicly accessible.

One of the most effective ways to take down Flock cameras?

FOIA Freedom of Info Requests
PRA Public Records Requests

Credit to @JasonBassler1 for a template to file one in your city:

[Russell Westbrook @russwest44]

1 more!!!!!!!!!! #thunderup

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

@UofOklahoma From an entrepreneurship & engineering alumnus who lives in OKC, this is AWESOME!

How can I get involved?

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

“All gave some, some gave all.” We remember on this Memorial Day 🇺🇸

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

Having a toddler is so fun. My arm got cut up doing some yard work this weekend but my toddler is fully convinced I fought off a tiger to keep her and mommy safe 😂

[Jim Capp @allidoisJim]

Lost my wedding band at mens softball tonight. Quietly told the boys. Next thing I know, my entire team and a team from an earlier game got flashlights on searching the park. We found it within 3min. There’s still good in this world. And I’m still a dumbass.

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

A passenger flying on Delta Air Lines Airbus A321 flight DL1719 from Seattle (SEA) to New York (JFK) recorded the moment a life-threatening tornado impacted Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

You can’t open windows in space. Everyone knows this

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Artemis II crew experiences issues with Microsoft Outlook on their way to the Moon, asks ground crew for assistance.

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

I can operate anything wrong enough to create a decent smoke machine

[Side Project @osideproject]

@NickBuilds11 If you can't build a toaster from scratch how can you call yourself a full stack engineer?

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

After our neighborhood got hit by a tornado, we actually had a taco truck that would drive the blocks blaring mariachi music. It was hilarious seeing grown men stop their work and come running out of partially rebuilt homes to chase a taco truck 😂

[greg @greg16676935420]

I wish taco trucks would cruise the neighborhood like ice cream trucks

[Wes Uhler @WesleyUhler]

No jersey ads
No helmet ads
No ads on the ice
Nothing digital on the boards or glass
Minimal commercial breaks

Just hockey. Damn good hockey. God bless the Olympics

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

The difference between an ordeal and an adventure is attitude

[B. Dalton Wood ‎⎊ @thebdwood]

@alittle2highlol It feels like this how the British went from dominating the spice trade to “chips, gravy, and mashed peas” 🤮

[Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC🇻🇦 @FrMatthewLC]

Don't make me tap the IBM training manual from 1979 again.

[Aaron Brackett @Aaron_Brackett]

Check out this beautiful shot of snow covered OKC!

Photo: Steve Johnson