Mike Krzywonski
I'm excited to hear about this forum. Please sign me up. Thanks.
It's a place where new chasers or aspiring chasers can ask any question they want and get it answered by experienced chasers, and not feel too intimidated as they might posting in the general forum, or feel like they might face some ridicule for posting a question on something very basic.
The idea is to have a mentoring type area for those experienced chasers that wish to help mentor new folks, while allowing those that don't want to be able to avoid it.
Lots of new folks have a lot of basic questions they would like answered. Stuff experienced chasers know by heart now, sometimes forget it was once new ground for us too.
My hope that this will help foster relationships between more experienced chasers with new people coming in to the hobby, much in the same way that ham radio helps "elmer" (a mentor) new hams. Hopefully this will extend in to the physical world allowing new chasers someone to learn from in the field as well.
I had the thought that this might be a good approach to introducing new people to the world of storm chasing through a teaching philosophy, rather than a preaching philosophy.