You know you're a storm chaser when...

[cdcollura]

When you are being treated for depression and nothing works simply because simply having a storm to chase would be the cure.

 

[Lucy Blinebury]

When your definition of DOW has no relevance to the financial world!

 

[Dann Cianca]

... when you can make a sexual innuendo out of almost every word in the AMS glossary.

"I want to follow your moist adiabat all the way down to the boundary layer"

 

[Chris Sokol]

...when you name your son Chase.

 

[Melissa Jablonski]

When your kids are named Derecho and Fujita.

 

[Jason Boggs]

When you make a tornado out of a flashlight and a long exposure from a camera.

 

[Brian Barnes]

you miss your wedding day due to a (out of season) triple-point near DDC.

 

[Ryanne Jobsian]

When you look for seasonal work because that does not interfere with chasing.

You get mad when non-weather people look at your photos and say "Oh, what nice clouds" and you are shocked that they cannot see the obvious structure happening.

When people from other parts of the country say that storms are coming and you fire up GR3 to inform them of what is going on.

When you have plans to see a friend and when you pick them up tell them "We are chasing today"

When you are asked to run an errand and you come back hours later because you chased and only got the errand done because it was along the way of your chase.

When someone asks you if chasing is more important than a paying job..and you have to think about it for a long time.

When you see a Crown Vic jacked up on 24 inch rims, you think "Damn, that is a good car for getting through flash flooding!"

When you think a round floodlight is a Federal Signal 2001

When you see a tornado on tv and you call the date, location and F/EF scale rating

 

[Derek Weston]

When you trade your 3 month old baby for two grilled cheese sandwiches!

 

[Nathan Withrow]

Or you hear the sirens after the warning has been issued and you run out side with a camera

That sounds like me!

 

[Karla Dorman]

These are great, guys and gals. Keep 'em coming!

... you KNOW you're a chaser when ...

... the mere mention of svr gets the heart to beating after being stopped for so long from SDS or from THE RIDGE - kind of like resuscitation? "CLEAR! *zzzApp*

 

[Connor McCrorey]

When someone asks you if chasing is more important than a paying job..and you have to think about it for a long time.

I think you mistyped something.

What you probably meant to say is...
When someone asks you if chasing is more important than a paying job..and you don't have to think about it for a second.

 

[Ryanne Jobsian]

I think you mistyped something.

What you probably meant to say is...
When someone asks you if chasing is more important than a paying job..and you don't have to think about it for a second.

You are indeed correct, however, I was meeting with my job placement specialist (or whatever she is called) she was like "What is more important, working a job, or storm chasing?" when I said that I was all for taking a seasonal job because of chasing. Seasonal work would be perfect, keeps me occupied, makes me extra cash and does not interfere with chasing. So, I was kinda like "uhhh" One of those situations where you know what you probably SHOULD say and what you WANT to say.

 

[Travis Stone]

 

[Terry Tyler]

When it takes an hour and a half to bring in all your equipment out of your vehicle.