Editor's Notebook

We made a flying trip to Denver last weekend for a family wedding.

Literally.

When we landed at the Denver International Airport it was snowing about as hard as it can snow.

Luckily the ground was so warm there was no problem with our plane making a landing, and the highway heading into town was also fine.

But as I looked out the window I said to myself, “well it’s Denver, CO. This is what  you expect.”

We met one of Matt’s Sigma Chi pledge brothers for dinner Friday night and the snow subject came up.

“That’s our first snow of the winter,” the now 13-year Denver resident said.

What?!

April 17?

For real. We had an Uber driver tell us stories about family after family calling him for a ride home from Aspen and other resorts saying,  “Come get us there’s nothing to do here.”

No snow.

No skiing.

And by the end of the day, much of the nearly three inches had melted away and there were no real signs of it on Saturday or Sunday.

In fact much of Colorado is in a much, much worse drought than we are experiencing in Oklahoma, with a huge portion in the state in the exceptional drought category.

Those include many of the ski resorts, while Denver itself is in the extreme drought category just like here in the Heart of Oklahoma.

But, we are not alone.

As the saying goes, misery loves company.

Idaho, a couple of spots in Texas, north central Arkansas, a huge area of the Florida panhandle, the peninsula of Alabama and a large portion of southern Georgia are in the exceptional category.

At least we are not there, yet.

But an old farmer’s saying is you’re only two weeks away from the next drought.

We need moisture, but we are certainly not alone in this situation.

For the year, we’re up to 10” of rain. That is ahead of this time in 2025’s mark of 7.87”.