Sunday June 3rd looked promising to the Hokie Stormchasers as the forecast models, several NWS forecast offices, and the Storm Prediction Center all pointed to a significant potential for supercells and some tornadoes in the eastern Kansas / Oklahoma r…

Back in the olden days of 2005, companies posted updates to their websites, and interested parties subscribed via RSS were guaranteed to see 100% of the updates. Today, people like the Facebook page of companies and only 18% of those people will see updates. If the company wants more they have to pay up. This […]

I came across Bullet2Bandages a couple of weeks ago via Facebook. In perusing their web site I learned that this company was founded by two Navy veterans whose goal is to create unique objects from fired brass and use a portion of the profit …

Believe it or not we’re staying our 4th night in a row in the same hotel in Guymon OK.  (That’s a record for the Hokie Stormchasers.)  We rolled west and north this morning, winding up in the far southeastern corner of Colorado in a very nice…

Our family saw the movie “For Greater Glory” this weekend. I was prepared for a powerful movie, but I was especially moved by how close to home this dark point in Mexican, and U.S. history, really hits. The movie tells the story of Mexico’s Cristeros…

We are currently spending our third night in a row (very unusual) here in Guymon, a town in the Oklahoma panhandle.  Today we chased storms west and south under a setup that was less than ideal but still provided some picturesque views.  At o…

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It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since I last participated in The Session. When I saw the topic that The Beer Babe had chosen, I knew I had to participate. For Session #64: Pale in Comparison, she writes:

“What is the one b…