What I Saw While Showing Houses Today

Here in my little part of Oklahoma, you just never know what a day of showing houses might hold in store for you. 

For example:  One day this past winter, I had taken my 4 wheel drive jeep out with a client "just to be safe."

Good thing as we found ourselves on a unplowed snow covered road, sliding all over the place in four wheel drive in order to get to the house she wanted to see.  The funny thing was that, until we got to that neighborhood, there was little to no snow on the roads!

Today's adventure started in Owasso.  That would be the city area.  Nice roads.  Dry roads.  Traffic.  Stop signs.  Stoplights.  "Normal."

Then we headed over to Skiatook.  Skiatook and Owasso have one thing in common.  They both have the city roads and they both have the country roads.  Only Skiatook tends to hold water longer than Owasso.  For you non-Oklahoma folks, that means that areas of Skiatook tend to flood - especially out in the country.  The problem is that you have to go through the country to get to many of the places you want to get to.  So that's what we were doing...zipping down a country road when suddenly there was no road anymore!

Here's where we found ourselves.  (Be sure you read the rest of this below the pic)

Okay, so now you want to know why I drove my car into the flooded part of the road.  Let me explain.

1)There was a car and a pickup in front of us that were going that way too.  Here in Oklahoma, the trick is to know when you can get through a flooded road and when not to try it.  Sometimes you just have to try it.  Since it was me and another guy (retired police officer) and two vehicles in front of us giving it a go, we decided it was a Tim the Toolman kind of moment and to go for it.

2)You don't take a woman into the water no matter what.  No women were present.  We ARE gentlemen you know.

3)The van tires needed to be washed.

4)We needed to go that way and while turning around before going into the water would have been fun too, it wouldn't have been nearly as MUCH fun.  And besides, turning around would have taken extra time.  We were men on a mission.

5)It really wasn't as deep as it looks in the pic, but it was still just deep enough to be fun!

We made it through to the other side and ultimately to our destination.  All in all it was a good day. 

Yep, it's not a desk job, but somebody's got to do it!