Hello from Long Island, New York!
I'm your local Genshin Impact player whose favorite song is Disintegration by The Cure, and I also happen to have a near lifetime passionate interest in tornadoes.
I'm 24 years old my curiosity in tornadoes began when I was very young, no older than six years old when my parents purchased a box set of National Geographic videotapes (which happened to be released the year I was born), each one on a different subject: volcanoes, asteroids, and tornadoes — and I obviously took greater interest in one over the others. The tape was titled 'C
yclone!', the cover of which was a picture of a tornado along with a strike of lightning.
The first ever tornado that I was exposed to via the program was the Andover, Kansas tornado, the events of that day narrated by Peter Coyote, and the rest is history; I've watched the tape so many times I can recite it line by line.
Being from New York I've never had the opportunity to chase — I have seen
one that was incredibly brief and not on the record, I've experienced many amazing thunderstorms, as well as not so fun tropical storms & hurricanes — but despite that, tornadoes have been my fixation since I first saw the videotape all those years ago. I've kept up with each chase season and then some through my favorite chasers, researched and studied many tornadoes past, and have just generally indulged in all things meteorological in my spare time; career wise, I plan to become a mortician.
And, rather fittingly, I stumbled upon this forum while looking up more information and conversation about the Andover tornado, as well as the Bridge-Creek Moore tornado of 1999.
I hope to learn much more during my time in this forum, and to simply broaden my scope in a more interactive way than I have been. Thank you for having me!
