Hi Mark, I think my other half and I are booked to go on this one. Not 100% certain about whether to go or not as I'm tagging it to another planned trip
Hi Guys, sorry but we won't be there either as we're double booked this weekend and my masterplan to make both became overly complicated . I know you guys will have fun, sorry to miss out . Claire
Strangely not, the only scary moment was much later on from the El Reno Tornado, when we we stuck on a highway and the guy on the radio was shouting for everyone to get off the same highway as there was another tornado headed our way.. oh and there was huge green hail core behind us with 3 inch hail !
At that point though we didn't know about what happened to Twistex and the mother & the baby or the people who drowned in OKC. Had we known I'm sure it would have been different
Indeed very a sobering tour. Not only did we experience the storm and see the El Reno tornado but we saw the effects on the community for ourselves, It will stay with me for a long time.
Not really a bust , we knew we'd be lucky to catch anything coming in from New Mexico without putting ourselves out of position, given Stormscape spent the day at White Sands , Paul made the right call so realistically it was a down day.....
Matty , I chased this storm with NW and part of the reason the chasers were so close together was because there was simply nowhere to go due to the gridlocked traffic and rotations & winds in the storm. Although some chasers clearly acted irresponsibly, most were simply just trying to escape the situation in the same way we were and made similar decisions on the limited options available
Only way to describe today was intense. This is my 4th year on the Plains with the guys and I've never imagined anything like today. Thx to Paul & Tom for working so hard . I was only slightly scared when we couldn't move due to traffic and had a rain wrapped tornado within a hairs breadth of us , which demonstrated how bad metro chasing can get.
Definitely will remember my 10th Tornado for a long long time............