Steve Dodson, Oklahoma City, carries a snow shovel to the check-out stand. The threat of a severe winter storm, expected to arrive in Oklahoma City on Christmas Day, ushered a throng of customers into the Westlake Hardware Store, 1509 W Britton Road, to purchase snow shovels, ice melt, snow scrapers and tubes filled with sand on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman