How Are Recessions Like Tornadoes...?

They both seem to find ways to avoid Norman.

Slate.com has great interactive map looking at when job losses happened in each county in the U.S.

You can't search for Cleveland, but if you put your mouse on just the right blue dot, you find that we gained 2,756 jobs from February 2008 to February 2009. And 3,100 from January 2008 to January 2009.

I'm sure individuals have had very bad things happen because of the recession, and things could get worse at any time. But it looks like if you want a place to ride out tough times, Norman's a pretty good home base.

(Anybody got guesses on who is hiring all those extra people? It can't all be Embassy Suites!)

*Yes, I'm aware of the tremendous jinx potential of this post.