IanM

Very understandable Tom. It's an incredibly sad time, and hard to just pick up where you left off this time yesterday. Stay safe, give yourselves some time to reflect and recover a bit.

Sadly, this has been confirmed by Jim Samaras, Tim's brother. Tragic news for all involved, and our thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of Tim and Paul Samaras and Carl Young.

It's simplest to renew when prompted by the end of your current sub, we can take manual payments, but as the office isn't a 24 hour operation we can't guarantee being around to take the call :-) Ian

The flag is set to live Tom, the connection has been temperamental around that area, it may be down to sheer volume of users on the network. Good luck today!

Only if you are really unlucky Paul, cricket ball size and bigger make a hell of a bang and will take out windows as well as denting the metalwork.

A proper gritty teeth chase, and another tornado in the bag for tour 3, not a bad day.

Ah the cross town, I have a feeling you might want to persuade Jim not to scare the locals...

It's a long drive, but I will set out early to get there.

A small hint of chaser butt here and there, but otherwise safe Neil. Though the site of most of the team in just shorts before they have caught any sun might be too much to stomach...

Thanks Tom and Graham, I'm thinking a Go Pro or two might be a good investment too!

HI Paul, it's always good to see guests blogging, and you can grab any of my shots from Tour 2 in the gallery here to use if you want. Just credit them to Netweather, and grab a few. Ian

It will arrive Paul, it's pretty cool too. Plus they hold your details, so if you chase again next year you can just enter your tag number and rebook. Having tried a number of brokers and underwriters, Dog Tag are the best option at the moment. Ian

Nobody wanted to see this MD issued today - http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0749.html "STORMS WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP ALONG THE ADVANCING COLD FRONT WHICH ALSO INTERSECTS THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS...AND ARE EXPECTED TO QUICKLY GROW UPSCALE INTO A DAMAGING MCS. WIND GUSTS OVER HURRICANE FORCE...WIND DRIVEN HAIL...AND A FEW TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THE SYSTEM MATURES AND FORWARD PROPAGATES ACROSS A LARGE PART OF NRN TX AND INTO THE ARKLATEX THIS EVENING." Initiation is expected in the next couple of hours We can only hope that the worst is confined to open land with no further loss of life or injury.

Yep, just been swapping messages with Arron. I'm not sure how aware they are of what has happened in Moore

The guys are approx 45 miles south of OK city, one of the guests texted home a few minutes ago

It was another awesome day... It's silly o'clock here and we are up early tomorrow, so no time to make it prettier I'm afraid.... This a 12 shot stitch of the storm that kept us entertained for a few hours this afternoon.