The entire
August 23 log is finally complete. I completely forgot about the funnel cloud we saw near the Limon prison on southbound CO-71. There were a lot of smaller things that happened during this chase which kept this log an ongoing work-in-progress, but with the video still up, I think I have completed enough of it to call it complete. That funnel cloud was spotted by
Verne as we went to intercept the core of the approaching storm south of Limon. It never touched down, nor did it really give itself a chance, but it was clearly twisting away in the clouds up there and would've made for a nice bonus had it lowered.
Jon Merage took off today to chase Kansas and as with
Amos yesterday, I bid him luck on a rather marginal day. SPC currently has an MD out for the area close to where he was targeting, so hopefully a red box goes up. Much to my surprise, SPC blue-boxed parts of Eastern Colorado. That'll go to waste for me today as I have good tickets to my favorite band,
Chicago, at Red Rocks tonight and it'll take an F-5 screaming through downtown Denver to get me out of that.
I move next week into our new place and will be busy setting up the "office" area which will house all my video rendering equipment, as well as the new desktop computer I am building to take on all the video archiving. We get the keys on Wednesday and I'm hoping to pick up the new desk that weekend. I am awaiting money from previous video sales to order my computer parts so I can start building the new desktop. I have older parts for sale if anyone is interested.
Anywoo, no chasing in the immediate future aside from afternoon ventures when school and work don't interfere. I'll ride high from this passed Tuesday's gentlemen's chase for a while and enjoy the large amount of airtime my Limon video grabbed. A friend of mine asked me if I still freak out when I see my name and video on TV. To be honest, I do! It's half the thrill of doing video work is seeing something on air and saying, "yep, that's mine!" Obviously more thrilling when your name is plastered all over it! I don't think I'll ever get bored with it! :o)
