Stranded In Tulsa

I am currently in a jet parked somewhere in a concrete desert in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My flight from Nashville to Dallas was delayed for one hour once we boarded and before we took off due to weather. Once we did take off, we had to head north and circle around to avoid the storm, which we were told would add more time to the flight. Then, the storms refused to leave Dallas alone, and we were forced to land in Tulsa, where we are waiting for the all clear.

A rather funny though environmentally unfriendly story: In order to land in Tulsa, the plane had to be a legal weight to land. Because the plane had enough fuel to fly halfway through Texas, we had too much fuel and weighed too much to land. We had to stay in the air an extra 45 minutes or so and burn off 5000 lbs. of fuel before we could land. No word on what has happened to my connecting flight to McAllen.

We are being told now our plane is being given a gate so we can wait inside the terminal. Translation: I have several more hours of wait ahead of me.

While I wait, here's what I can see out my window of the Tulsa airport.