Storm Chasing vs. Regular Life - How do you balance it? Survey for ChaserCon Talk.

[Dave Lewison]

I apologize in advance if this type of post is not allowed. I wanted to post here, as I'm hoping to gather responses from other experienced chasers. I will be giving a talk at the 2020 ChaserCon, which will focus on how we as chasers manage to balance our passion for weather with the rest of our lives. To that end, I plan to collect & share data & stories about your own experiences with this topic. I would GREATLY appreciate if you could take some time to fill out this survey. Please let me know if you run into problems with the survey, or if a question isn't clear. THANKS!!!

Storm Chasing Survey Link - www.facethewind.com

 

[Jason Boggs]

I filled one out for you.

 

[Mark Blue]

You’re fine posting here and good to see you Dave!

 

[Drew Terril]

I went ahead and filled one out. My responses are almost certainly going to be rather different than most of those my age.

 

[Ryan Doan]

I completed one as well.

 

[Jack R. Jester]

I just completed my own a maybe a bit late.

 

[Dave Lewison]

Certainly not too late. The survey is still accepting responses and I'll probably leave it up for another couple weeks at least. Thanks to everyone who has responded so far!

 

[JamesCaruso]

Just completed one.

Also may I suggest some potentially good material for you at this thread, if you have not already seen it?

https://stormtrack.org/community/threads/family-events-vs-chasing.30823/

I came up with the matrix but it was inspired by things written elsewhere by Jeff House. Feel free to use the matrix, but I would suggest editing it with a pun that occurred to me later - change "Dangerous Territory" quadrant to "Particularly Dangerous Situation" or "PDS"!

I think this is a really cool project because I have spent a lot of time thinking about this stuff... I won't be at Chasercon but I hope you will be willing to share your presentation online.