CHASING

For any of you who are interested, Garrett and I will be tornado chasing today and tomorrow with this awesome guy from my work who is a legit chaser. We will be live-streaming video of the storms both days, so you can log on to http://www.severestreaming.com and then in the upper right-hand corner there is a box that will link to all of the chasers who are currently streaming. After you click on that, select the name Mike Peregrine. That's where we'll be! I just heard there were 40 something tornados in Kansas and Nebraska last night - tonight is supposed to be even better. If you check around 5-7 your time, that is probably when we'll be seeing some action. Don't worry, we're safe! :)

The Best Part of Spring.

This is one of those things that most of you will know about me, but others will be surprised (and probably disturbed), I LOVE tornadoes! In fact, one of my biggest draws to Kansas City was the fact that I might be able to see some tornadoes. I must confess that I've never actually seen one, but I dream about them (and seriously wake up smiling from those dreams), and I read about them and try to learn everything I can, and I YouTube them and watch lots of videos. Very fun!! I should clarify that I don't like it when cities are destroyed and people are hurt. I am just fascinated by them and think they are absolutely beautiful.

So, it has been a dream of mine to see a tornado and hopefully do some chasing while I'm here as well. So I have to write about the funny thing that happened this week. Monday, Garrett left for a dental convention in Dallas. And I was joking with him because we had some crazy wind and scary looking sky - so I told him he was going to miss the big tornado. Well I was sitting at work and decided to check the weather.gov site to see if we were getting any closer to a tornado. I noticed that Dallas, and more specifically Denton (where Garrett's parents house is) was in the middle of a tornado watch. I called Garrett to tell him and he said they had blue sky. He called me back about a half hour later and I couldn't hear him over the wind and the tornado sirens in the background. So I logged on to weather.gov again and a tornado had touched down just a few miles from Garrett's house!!! He didn't actually see the funnel, but he was close! I was so jealous! So I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for some "good" weather closer to home.