The side of my life I don't speak of

[SubjectProphet]

Lol, I have been posting a lot. And drowning myself in conspiracies is always fun. But I decided to share some stuff.

 

I've never mentioned this before, have I? With some friends back at home, I on occasion go storm chasing. You know, chase tornados and super-cells. Usually 4 of us is one car, and I drive. But I get shaky during the storms lol.

 

Back in March, toward the beginning of the month, there were quite a few deadly tornados I chased. One in Cleveland almost got us, it just turned around suddenly. Some up north in Ohio were pretty amazing too.

 

I don't do it for money like a lot of people, just for fun. Photos and videos to share with friends, and to get that rush of fear through you.

 

Anyone else gone storm chasing before? Or been caught in a storm?

[Vindekarr]

Yeah, a couple of years ago I got caught in a really massive hailstorm. Stones were about the size of a marble, going up to ice-cube sized, but it wasn't the size, it was the shear deluge-it looked like it had snowed because everything was just, white. The roof got some new leaks during that storm, it hammered down for about half an hour, then exhuasted itself and abated, but it made front-page news, and did a fair bit of damage,

 

That was in brisbane, I think probably about 2007-8, scary, really heavy rain of not insignificant sized hail.

[Thor.]

Here in the Summer especially with Global warming, we have had some Nasty weather come through our city, Especially last year with that Storm Cell that ripped through Goderich. We had one nearly touch down quite close to where i live. I was the same cell that gave birth to the same tornado that ripped through Goderich's core downtown. Right down the middle. Almost to accurate :teehee: :woot:

[mattlittlej]

I got my bachelors degree from Oklahoma and worked with a few storm chasers while I was there. Never actually went to go but their armored van was pretty interesting.

[RitualBlack]

Here in the Summer especially with Global warming, we have had some Nasty weather come through our city, Especially last year with that Storm Cell that ripped through Goderich. We had one nearly touch down quite close to where i live. I was the same cell that gave birth to the same tornado that ripped through Goderich's core downtown. Right down the middle. Almost to accurate :teehee: :woot:

 

Wow, I never realized how close you live to me (within an hour :blink: ). The weather here in Ontario has been very odd. I liked the nice t-shirt temperatures a few weeks ago but it is back to freezing. I couldn't believe it snowed the other night. Daytime isn't too cold though, just not nearly as nice as it was a few weeks ago.

 

I am always worrying how the tree saplings handle will the temperature fluctuations while they are budding. They bud early because it is 20*C for a few days and a week later the night temperatures are back into the negatives.

(Fairly off topic :sweat: )

[Sarissi]

Nothing like watching a funnel cloud pass directly over your head. That happened to me, back when I was with Skywarn. My dad and I missed being hit by one, by a mere 5 minutes, and we were doing the 9 mile trip from home to the family farm. I was still wit Skywarn on that one. I turned in my Advanced Class Amateur Radio License to the FCC, due to the fact that I am Gay and didn't like being branded Unnatural, Evil, and Guilty of ALL Crimes just by being a Gay.

 

Spotting is not the same as chasing, although both are needed, due to the far to slow rotation time of the Doppler and NEXRAD antennas.

[SubjectProphet]

Nothing like watching a funnel cloud pass directly over your head. That happened to me, back when I was with Skywarn. My dad and I missed being hit by one, by a mere 5 minutes, and we were doing the 9 mile trip from home to the family farm. I was still wit Skywarn on that one. I turned in my Advanced Class Amateur Radio License to the FCC, due to the fact that I am Gay and didn't like being branded Unnatural, Evil, and Guilty of ALL Crimes just by being a Gay.

 

Spotting is not the same as chasing, although both are needed, due to the far to slow rotation time of the Doppler and NEXRAD antennas.

 

I've had tornados tear through the roads right in front of me before, and all I can think is "Wow." Or sometimes it's deciding on whether I'll die or live. It just depends.

 

My vehicle was usually a normal van lol, we're insane when we're storm chasing. All we have is a radio and a TV, and cameras.

[HeyYou]

Driving back from Ohio in the wee hours of the morning once, above us was clear sky, filled with stars.... on the horizon in front of us, was solid black clouds.... the terrain there is exceptionally flat.... so, you can see a LONG way.... and from horizon to horizon in front of us, was nothing but lightning......... as we got closer, the thunder would actually shake the car....... as we drove into the storm, there was a well-defined line, on one side, nothing.... on the other side, Deluge. 25 MPH was too fast. It was raining so hard, even with the wipers on full blast, we couldn't even see the end of the hood....... then the hail started.... golf-ball sized. That was LOUD........ We couldn't hear each screaming right next to each other...... fortunately, we were both screaming the same thing... we needed to find cover. :D We pulled into somebody's driveway.... that had a carport. We parked under that, got out, and sat and watched the storm roll thru.... the owner of the house came out to see what we were up to, and once we explained the situation, he smiled, and offered us his basement to hide in, from the tornado that was on the way......... which we were happy to take him up on.

 

We spent a couple hours with him and his wife, very pleasant people, and we could HEAR the tornado go past....... when we went back outside, the carport was about three blocks away, but, the car was still there... somewhat the worse for wear. It looked a lot like a golfball itself..... lotsa dents. As the sun had come up, and out... while we were waiting, we stayed and helped the couple clean up their yard as payback for letting us into their home....

[Deleted472477User]

I lived in Florida for almost 3 years, and went through several hurricanes. Wilma was the last straw, and I went back to Denver :D

[Sarissi]

Nothing like watching a funnel cloud pass directly over your head. That happened to me, back when I was with Skywarn. My dad and I missed being hit by one, by a mere 5 minutes, and we were doing the 9 mile trip from home to the family farm. I was still wit Skywarn on that one. I turned in my Advanced Class Amateur Radio License to the FCC, due to the fact that I am Gay and didn't like being branded Unnatural, Evil, and Guilty of ALL Crimes just by being a Gay.

 

Spotting is not the same as chasing, although both are needed, due to the far to slow rotation time of the Doppler and NEXRAD antennas.

 

I've had tornados tear through the roads right in front of me before, and all I can think is "Wow." Or sometimes it's deciding on whether I'll die or live. It just depends.

 

My vehicle was usually a normal van lol, we're insane when we're storm chasing. All we have is a radio and a TV, and cameras.

 

I have never chased storms. They come to me. LOL The ones I don't like are the MCCs that form over Michigan and drop down through Ohio. I live in Mansfield, Ohio, Richland County, which is my home town.

 

The tornado watch to be watch out for (and cringe) is the PDS Watch (Particularly Dangerous Situation). This is where large long track EF4 and EF5 tornadoes are highly probable. The probability of one being issued for my area is near Zero.