The Ghost Train - A Podcast By Chasers For Chasers

Caleb I can send you the logo that Skip made for the show that should be good for a logo. Tonight James is back with good internet. We'll be having Skip once again, as well as Dan Robinson and Wesley Luginbyhl as our guests. We'll be talking about how having a family, and a career, affect your chasing habits. We'll also go over some painful memories of our worst busts to date. Should be a fun show. We hope you'll ditch Reed Timmer's show and come watch ours @ 7:30pm central!

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Tonight, James and I will have another setup analysis episode. We decided on a couple of things from now on. 1) We will being doing these setup analysis shows once every 2 weeks. This is due to lower views, and so we don't run out of days to study! 2) We decided to split each episode into 3 regions; upslope flow regime, southern Plains, and northern Plains/Midwest. If we start running out of upslope days to study, we'll probably split it southern, northern, midwest/everywhere else. So each episode will include one setup day per region. I am aware that some days may include more than one region, in which case we'll split the day and go over each region separately.

With that being said, tonight (January 24 @ 8pm Central) we will be discussing 3 awesome days. For the southern Plains region, we're going to revisit the vicious outbreak of April 26, 1991. For our northern Plains region, we will be going back to the amazing June 17, 2010 Minnesota outbreak. Finally, for the upslope region, we will be checking out the beautiful Deer Trail/Last Chance supercell of June 10, 2010. If anyone chased these days and care to showcase your footage or pictures, or would like to join us on the show to talk about how that day went for you, please PM me, or tweet the show (@TGT_show) so we can get you on! We hope you enjoy the show, and hope you enjoy the new format.

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Excellent show! These keep getting better. On the food options topic, I think I had a deja-vu relating to Shane’s description of the ocean-wave, sloshing, ice cold water, ice chest dinner at the end of the day with your sandwich bags and everything else swirling around in the waterlogged debris stream. Appetizing. Nope. McDonalds backup? Just know your metabolism and maybe where you’re going to be in 4 hrs.

And all the rest of it—chase partners, best seasons, passing through damage sites, what happens to your soul if you don’t have your camera—great stuff.
 
Jeremy Perez said:
I think I had a deja-vu relating to Shane’s description of the ocean-wave, sloshing, ice cold water, ice chest dinner at the end of the day with your sandwich bags and everything else swirling around in the waterlogged debris stream. Appetizing.
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Put your food in a smaller plastic bin inside of the cooler, and put all the ice under and on the sides of the bin. Then none of the water touches your food when it starts to melt, but it still keeps the cooler cold. I had that problem and got tired of it real quick. I have a gigantic cooler and put all my food items in a drawer bin, and fill the rest of the cooler up with ice. Beer and 2 liters of soda can still go right in the ice obviously, which frees up room in the bin.

There's nothing like having a picnic in the middle of the badlands, 100 miles from the nearest fast food. Or fresh fruits and vegetables with humus, salsa , bean salads, and some cold beers at 10:30 when everything else in Middle-Of-Nowhere, Kansas is closed.
 
Put your food in a smaller plastic bin inside of the cooler, and put all the ice under and on the sides of the bin.
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For sure—after a couple episodes of Deadliest Catch in the back seat, I started to develop strategies. This is good advice.

For whatever reason, I feel a lot more enthusiastic about lunch in the vehicle than when dinner rolls around. But like you said, when every sidewalk within 50+ miles is rolled up tight, it's good to have the ice-chest fallback.

Great ride-along/chase partner stories, by the way—not 'great' for you I guess, but as far as chaser war stories go...

Maybe a topic for an upcoming podcast: overnight strategies—hotels and car camping.
I've seen some good discussion here in past threads. During a typical 5-6 day excursion, I budget a hotel stay at the halfway point and car camp the rest of the time. Usually the car camping works nice. Although one night last trip, I parked on what I thought was a desolate road in the middle of a wind farm—partly convenient, partly for a surreal effect. But those turbine maintenance guys get rolling early & driving all over the place, wondering if I was stranded. So kinda marked that off the list for future trips—unless I'm willing to get up and get moving by 5AM.
 
I definitely would like to hear more about car camping in a future episode. I've always just went with hotels and that can be a huge pain sometimes. I'm buying a new car sometime in the next few weeks so I'll be looking for any way possible to save money this chase season.
 
Jon Strebler said:
I definitely would like to hear more about car camping in a future episode. I've always just went with hotels and that can be a huge pain sometimes. I'm buying a new car sometime in the next few weeks so I'll be looking for any way possible to save money this chase season.
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Maybe we can take our laptop webcams mobile and do a vehicle show and tell.
 
Still confirming guest, but here's the topics for SATURDAY night's show (remember, not Sunday).We'll be discussing how to safely chase HP supercells, with some examples of do's and don'ts. Also talking about what equipment we use for chasing. Finally, we'll be talking about our favorite areas to chase in and why. Should be a great show with different levels of expertise. We hope you join us SATURDAY NIGHT, so that you may enjoy the game Sunday.
 
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