It’d been ten days since my most recent tornado.
Prior to that it had been several years, and a time zone.
Chasing has always been in my blood.
If you saw someone flash you the peace sign ✌🏻today with CT plates, that was me.
Be well.
I’d rather get into a fistfight with a velociraptor than play the game with a gentleman called Geoff.
I get a bit spooked by people with really long necks.
It’s my weaknesses
But please tell no one.
This photo still gives me goosebumps because it’s hard to capture the delicate balance between instability and shear in a single frame.
Better to be lucky than good ;)
This photo still gives me goosebumps because it’s hard to capture the delicate balance between instability and shear in a single frame.
Better to be lucky than good ;)
@CRyanMauk I still remember the smell of the natural gas from Cactus, TX in 2007.
That experience shook me to my core.
I still cringe a bit when I hear my own excitement when the tornado came out of the rain.
Not all chases are fun, and yet we’re slowly shaped by each event.
15 years ago today 🤯.
This is far from A+ footage, but was one of our most educational (re: what NOT to do while filming) chases. It was the biggest tornado I had ever seen at that point and was in and out of the rain.
2min snippet of the 3/4-mi wide 4/21/07 Cactus, TX EF2:
@CRyanMauk The hardest part of chasing for me is reconciling the notion that my best day is perhaps someone else’s worst.
Ultimately that disconnect guided me to becoming an EMT.
I love tornadoes, but I hate what they sometimes leave behind.
🫶🏼
May 12, 1997:
A widely-documented F1 tornado impacted Miami, Florida. The twister produced over $500,000 in damage and injured a dozen people. Images from this event have been used in several documentaries and other educational material.
#wxhistory