Heading north out of Oklahoma City, skyscrapers give way to strip malls, strip malls to a building here and there. Finally, one sees farmland. As far as the eye can see, cows and the occasional clump of trees dot the landscape. Woven through it all are dirt roads in a seemingly perfect grid and electric fences to keep the cows from wandering too far astray. In this spot, an hour's drive north, one can almost imagine a tornado chaser with sophisticated storm tracking equipment zooming by. But on this day there are trucks. Not the trucks that dot suburbia, but serious full-size trucks, all heading to the right of way — a relatively narrow strip of land that stretches hundreds of miles from the largest oil storage facility in the world, just north in Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually, the trucks find their find to the Seaway 2 — a twin to the 30-in., 500-mile Seaway pipeline in service since 1976.
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