Coolest thing you've done or seen on a blue sky bust day (non-weather related)

[Jason Bolt]

Or maybe just sitting around waiting for initiation? Surely with all the downtime we've spent collectively someone can beat Hollingshed's bovine fornication pics!

Probably my coolest was wandering into the tiny hamlet of Beaver, Kansas and finding a neat brewpub with seven homebrews on tap in the middle of nowhere! Great place if you are ever around Hoisington or Great Bend.

 

[Shane Adams]

March 24, 1997 - My first planned chase. We ended up in (I think) Ponca City, at this bar called "Aces" or something. I think we had a beer, but I don't remember for sure.

April 14, 1998 - Did a spontaneous interview with a Tulsa news station when they approached us as we sat watching a storm develop.

April 10, 2001 - Hung out at the Love's in Erick, OK with Cinderella drummer Fred Coury, who was chasing with Jeff and Kathryn Piotrowski that day.

May 22, 2004 - Chad and Mick sat on either side of a soda can trying to throw small rocks into the mouthpiece.

June 12, 2004 - David Drummond, Graham Butler, and myself sat around in lawn chairs watching the Mulvane storm develop three hours before the first tornado. David fell asleep for a while.

June 12, 2005 - Was hanging out with Jeff and Kathryn Piotrowski at the Best Western in Shamrock that morning. Met the camera guy who was following them around, who talked me into going outside to tape a small, impromptu segment highlighting my tattoo and the damage to Chad's car. I figured the footage would end up on the cutting room floor so I agreed to do it for fun.

Those are the ones that I remember, for whatever reason. I'm sure there's several if I sat and thought about it, but I'm nodding off. Maybe I'll add some more later.

 

[Dan Nichols]

Perhaps the 'coolest' thing I did under a fair June blue sky was to take a cancer patient to a semi-private antique car show featuring a dozen-or-so choice early vehicles. Though I enjoy antique cars myself (no modifieds -- please!!), it was a thrill to see his reactions since he grew up alongside the automobile's early days, and it will always be a day I'll remember. Though he passed on four years later, I'm sure the memory of the gleaming restored cars helped sustain him through those final years of treatments and such. Any rain would've surely ruined the event.

 

[Stephen Levine]

The mobile Weather Channel crew arrived to the parking lot we were sitting in near Topeka KS, in June '98. We sat around, kicking the dirt, complaining about the confounding weather patterns (we were directly in the middle of a "watch box", the only storms were in MO and Central CO).
It was cool to share a dinner with Jim Cantore!

That evening, while parked on a country road taking sunset pictures we ran into a woman who screeched her car to a stop, got out and asked us: "can you tell me where I'm going?"
What a question! In any event, with maps in hand, we showed her where we were . She then invited us to spend the night camped in tents in her back yard under the stars!

My client and I affirmed that after 4 days with no significant storms, lots of driving that took us to areas that the NWS called tornado watches in after we arrived - that we could see more flashes than the lightning bugs outside our tent.

The next day we intercepted a storm in NW OK that yielded us five landspout tornadoes.
We watched it from the time the first TCU arose to the first tornado just one hour later.