Given a relatively slow internet connection here on the Outer Banks I haven't bothered to check the forecast models, but I have been following the SPC convective prognostications and the Sterling forecast discussions. It seems that we may have a chance at severe weather in the Mid-Atlantic on Saturday, which is fine since we'll be back in town by then and I should be able to chase given the opportunity. Having said that I have found it curious how the loosely-defined storm chasing community views situations in which severe weather damages property and/or causes injuries. Some chasers seem to just focus on the opportunity to bag tornado video and associated chasing notoriety, and others are genuinely concerned about helping victims of storms as in the case of several chasers who are actively helping and following up with the victims of the devastating Greenburg KS tornado of 2007. Personally I have always been fascinated with severe weather and welcome the chance to experience it, but I certainly don't want anyone to suffer because of it. That's why I feel a strong sense of responsibility to phone in severe weather to the NWS forecast offices as a Skywarn spotter. We have witnessed many instances of severity (wall clouds, funnels, and tornadoes) that we have called in to a forecast office after which the forecasters have issued severe weather warnings based on their radar depiction and our onsite observations. Many times things happen below the radar horizon of a local forecast office, and forecasters have no way of knowing for sure that bad things may be starting to happen. Anyway, I'll keep chasing to satisfy my severe weather fascination. I realize that I have nothing to do with causing the weather, but I at least can help provide warnings to folks in the path of the storms I am watching.