Written by Hey there everyone! Sorry I have not updated my blog in a while but I have been busy working, doing college and not chasing much storms lately. But I have some stuff to talk about I suppose, so read on… Recent Footage My most recent footage of any severe thunderstorms and tornadoes would of been [...]
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2011 has been my best chase year yet!
Hello to those few who read my blogs! I wanted to write about my storm chasing experience and those of this year. I have been chasing since I was about 14. When I first started doing it, I could only go when my friends wanted to and we really didn’t know what we were doing. [...]
READ MORE »Discuss Illinois, something new….
Hey all, I just wanted to let you all know that I have a new project going on that I would like to personally invite you all to. Its called Discuss Illinois, its a free online message forum community for the discussion of Illinois from living and visiting IL to debating politics and laws, sports [...]
READ MORE »Lookout Hurst, here I come…again!
Howdy Folks, I figured I would make a blog today. My last blog about my most recent chase experience was a great one though. I am still psyched about that one. Being lost on a gravel road in the Indiana farmlands with low fuel and a large funnel cloud wanting to touch the ground…well it [...]
READ MORE »Chase Log for May 25, 2011
Left southern Illinois with Katelyn Pfeister and went to Mount Vernon, Illinois around noon and met up with two chasers visiting from Australia. We then headed towards St. Louis and was near the river on the Illinois side and observed a rotating wall cloud with funnels trying to form and then finally, one started roping [...]
READ MORE »Yesterday was a bust… a total bust!
Unlike many storm chasers out there, a bust to me doesn’t happen unless nothing happens. If I don’t see a tornado, it is not always a bust day for me. If I ride out a good thunderstorm or see some hail and etc. I am happy with the chase. Some chasers call it a bust [...]
READ MORE »A revised blog about the chase community!
So my previous blog got a little bit of attention with quite a few comments added. Here all this time I have beebn trying to get comments on my blog and all I had to do was be a bit contraversal, lol. However, a lot of people commented defending a certain new storm chasing forum [...]
READ MORE »My rants about the storm chaser community!
This blog post may end up making some chasers upset, they may never talk to me again, they may never look at me as a serious chaser again but this blog is a dedication to them because they are the chasers that are destroying what storm chasing is really about! The chaser community as I [...]
READ MORE »It has been quiet lately.
Hello everyone, It has been a while since I have last updated my blog, so I figured I would update it this morning and let everyone knoe what I have been up to lately. Storm Chasing – Storm chasing has been very slow for me lately. For one thing, I have been broke otherwise I [...]
READ MORE »The Mapleton Chase
So it all started out with me going with Kate Pfeister to the Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium in Licoln, Nebraska. We drove like 9 hours from Murphysboro, IL. to Lincoln, NE. Kate got pulled over on the way up there for speeding and I had to pee a lot, that was about it for [...]
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