Good morning,

It’s been over a month now since I’ve filmed any tornadoes. There have been chases, there have been cool photography, but no major tornado events since April 14. There are indications that severe weather may return to portions of the Plains by the weekend and next week, but that’s just speculation at this point. I’ve been using this downtime to catch up on some other hobbies and finally have time to add several items to the Texas Storm Chasers website. I’ll go ahead and put them in bullet style.

* May 6 and May 11 photography posts added to the “Latest Chases” box on the homepage.

* Chase logs for February 28, March 18, and March 21 have been added and are available by accessing the Storm Chase Logs tab in the linkbar.

My next goal is to add my chase log for April 3. That may sound simple enough, but I’m going to spend extra time writing out every single detail of that chase. I’m going to try and do that today and I have no doubt it’s going to end up being a short novel. There are a few items I’m going to address in that (driving on highway shoulders in grid-locked traffic, the overall mindset of the day once it became apparent that was happening, and a secret I haven’t revealed about April 3.) The 28 second video we uploaded to our YouTube channel was from my new camera. What folks don’t know is that I had a HD camcorder running on the dash. I’ll reveal some of that video in the April 3 chase log as well. I’ve chased many setups over the years and up until April 3, the scariest day for me was my near death experience on April 24, 2010 out in Mississippi. That changed on April 3, not because of danger to my personal self, but the overall situation.

I’ll detail all of that in my April 3rd log.

~ David