How were you all able to chase?

[Matthew Crowther]

How were you able to chase?

Just curious- how were so many people able to chase yesterday? It was a weekday out of normal chase season, yet every Tom, Dick and Harry seemed to be out bagging tubes. Students skipping class? Unemployed? Sympathetic boss let you off? Independently wealthy?

Inquring minds want to know, from someone jealous with a job in Atlanta.....

 

[Tony Laubach]

I have no answer to that question because it was class that screwed me... work would not have been an issue.

 

[Karen Politte]

"ALL"??......I sure didn't chase yesterday and I'm sure there are many others who had prior commitments/a normal job to go to, too.

KL

 

[Dick McGowan]

It was a weekday out of normal chase season, yet every Tom, Dick and Harry seemed to be out bagging tubes.
Inquring minds want to know, from someone jealous with a job in Atlanta.....

This Dick didn't get to chase! Work screwed me, but I would have easily skipped school, since I haven't missed one class yet!!

Watching my chase partners get the Goodland tornado on their live webcam really made me sick to my stomach! I'm still sick to my stomach. Anyone else feel like jumping off a cliff?

 

[Matthew Crowther]

I will revise my question a tad- for those that DID chase, how did you manage it.

 

[Justin Teague]

I got lucky because I was involved in the instruction of our fire school in Shawnee, OK. Our school is over by 1:30, so I left Shawnee at 2:00. I didn't have enough time to get to my target of Floydada TX, but I was able to intercept the storm as it was producing a large tornado.

I also have an understanding boss, so I can usually give a day of advanced warning and have the day off for chasing.

 

[Mickey Ptak]

I told the boss I was going one way or the other. And yes there were a freaking herd of chaser yesterday on the most southern cell. For a second there I thought it was May and I was in Oklahoma. I guarantee 75% who were chasing were college students (not griping about it, just making an observation). I kind of wish I would have went to the northern cells due to the lack of chaser convergence they had on them, but then again we had some great footage.

Mick

 

[matt patterson]

i schedule all my classes so that i never am tied up after 12...i do have to start at 7 though! I dont work, so that probably helps too........

 

[Cameron Redwine]

This Dick didn't get to chase! Work screwed me, but I would have easily skipped school, since I haven't missed one class yet!!

Watching my chase partners get the Goodland tornado on their live webcam really made me sick to my stomach! I'm still sick to my stomach. Anyone else feel like jumping off a cliff?

I was standing at the edge of the cliff last night. Work and school prevented me from going. A big tornado at night in my old stomping grounds, PUB's CWA, makes me crazy. Even if I had been chasing, I would have probably missed that one anyway for the other cells in KS. I just sat at work and watched radar and reports all evening. Congratulations to all who had success!

 

[Tony Laubach]

Anyone else feel like jumping off a cliff?

More times than I can count over the last 24 hours... I feel like I have the hangover from hell right now.

 

[Brian Emfinger]

I was wondering the same thing. The first few tornadoes everything was fine but by the last ones there were people all over being retarded. I doubt many were chasers but once again if there wasnt any accidents from people stopping on highways, running across highways, pulling off highway onto muddy shoulders quickly and losing control, and thats only the stuff that I remember vividly...well its just luck and its just a matter of time before something tragic happens.

 

[Dan Robinson]

I was able to chase, and could have been in Texas if I had chosen to be. However, this time I'm not sulking about it. The pain of missed tornado days grows less and less with each passing year for me, because I know there will always be more to be had. When I think about what I've been priveleged to see in past seasons, and what I'll probably get to see in the future, it's hard to get upset about missing a big outbreak here and there. Coming to terms with the fact that 'you can't see every tornado' has been a big factor in increasing my enjoyment factor, and decreasing the stress factor, of chasing.

 

[Dick McGowan]

More times than I can count over the last 24 hours... I feel like I have the hangover from hell right now.

I know....I went to bed at 3, woke up at 7:30, and still feel horrible! It's natural for me to want to go out and chase everything now, but probably won't see anything as spectacular as yesterday. It's the days that you sit out that will be the ones that will haunt you. Good thing is, April and May are just around the corner!

Congrats to everyone out there, 2007 is shaping up to be a good year for the Plains.

 

[David Drummond]

I just told my boss to screw himself and went anyway (self employed).

However my chasing yesterday was working since I was doing it for the TV station. My work day yesterday began about noon and ended at 4:30 am.

 

[Scott Weberpal]

Anyone else feel like jumping off a cliff?

More times than I can count over the last 24 hours... I feel like I have the hangover from hell right now.

I'm sitting here laughing at the people 'feeling sick' because they couldn't chase. My goodness, it's only March. Can't chase every big day every time.

'Class screwed me,' 'work screwed me,'....aren't these things just a bit more important than chasing? Last I checked, there's less than a half dozen people who make a living off chasing/weather. Heck, I feel very fortunate to be going to school and have a good job at the same time I'll take what I can get when the semester ends.