Time for a bit of humor...and a brief outlook.
It looks like the severe weather season returns to W TX and the PH next Tuesday as a front settles into the area and a resident surface low and dryline sets up. I love these patterns because nobody is really paying attention to it yet because the GFS kills the mid and upper winds. However, good instabilities, boundaries and 30-40 knot mid level winds (despite model forecasts) will be plenty. Things get better after Tuesday. In the meantime, we are enjoying some reallly nice, cool weather in the PH.
btw...anybody remember the old promo commercials for The Weather Channel? They're showing a few of them in celebrating their 25th anniversary. I just saw one of the old "The Front" commercials. It's like a sports bar but totally decked out weather weenie style right down to little anemometers on the tables. LOL!! I loved those commercials. Here is the only links I find:
http://www.adweek.com/aw/creative/best_spots_90s/90s_167.jsp
Here is a "truckboat" David Drummond and I saw in Miami, Texas. It needs a name as the ultimate stormchasing vehicle. Why a chase vehicle? Well, it has an amber light right on the hood....old school!! LOL!! Miller OK should get a kick out of this one.
It's not an optical illusion. Somebody welded the boat trailer with the truck frame. It certainly looked drivable, but probably needed a little work.
btw...anybody remember the old promo commercials for The Weather Channel? They're showing a few of them in celebrating their 25th anniversary. I just saw one of the old "The Front" commercials. It's like a sports bar but totally decked out weather weenie style right down to little anemometers on the tables. LOL!! I loved those commercials. Here is the only links I find:
http://www.adweek.com/aw/creative/best_spots_90s/90s_167.jsp
Here is a "truckboat" David Drummond and I saw in Miami, Texas. It needs a name as the ultimate stormchasing vehicle. Why a chase vehicle? Well, it has an amber light right on the hood....old school!! LOL!! Miller OK should get a kick out of this one.
It's not an optical illusion. Somebody welded the boat trailer with the truck frame. It certainly looked drivable, but probably needed a little work.
Labels: Amber Light Bars, Truckboat, Ultimate Chase Vehicle
posted by Steve Miller TX at 5/09/2007 09:49:00 PM
11 Comments:
[shaking head]
C'mon, Dew! That's your chase vehicle waiting for you when you make it out in June. LOL!!
Please don't forget to notice it has TWO outboard motors on the back!
is that thing for sale?
I didn't see any "For Sale" signs on it. Are you interested in buying it? :-)
no,it just looks like a for sale item out there by the road.I wonder what a rig like that would cost?
They did say, I would have to do some driving... Quite the "ATV" (All Tore-up Vehicle)
Scott: I thought it might be for sale too...odd that it is by the road like that. I figure the boat is worth about 1500 and the truck about the same...$3000 total max. As a conversation piece? Priceless. For everything else, there's Master Card. :-)
Dew: I hope "some" driving isn't "all" the driving. ;-) I think the Twister Sisters already have some others out there with them. I saw a pic someplace recently that appeared to have a small film crew with them. Hopefully by June, we can get out of this July-ish upper air pattern. I bet we will. ;-)
They started filming last week for the show. They take a different group each week, unless a ridiculous ridge settles over the plains, and then there's nothing... I'd like to place an order for some awesome action that first week in June! ;-)
If it were for sale and you did buy it, how would you tag it?
There's a truck there, a boat hull and a motor, all of which would need to be tagged. That could make for a fun trip to the tag agency!
I thought I was the only person who saw stuff like that while chasing!
Hey Dew, if it makes you feel any better, some of my best chases have been between June 1 and June 13. Scout around for other June chase reports too from other chasers. It should flare you SDS into overdrive. :-) I can't wait for June myself and will try to sneak some days off.
June 13, 1998 (Oklahoma and OKC - 4 tornadoes and my first mutli-tornado day outside of Texas)
June 12, 2004 (Mulvane KS. 4 tornadoes and one of the most picturesque tornadoes I've ever seen. My best video at that time)
June 7, 2005 (South Dakota. Beautiful LP storm that eventually transformed into a brutal but stunning haboob) http://texastailchaser.com/2005blog/20050607/index.htm
June 9, 2005 (Central KS. 3-4 tornadoes including big wedge) http://texastailchaser.com/2005blog/20050609/index.htm
June 12, 2005 (Kent County, TX tornado-fest. Simply incredible chase..amazing structure including mutli-vortex merry-go-round meso) http://texastailchaser.com/2005blog/20050612/index.htm
June 2006? Major drought! But, got to head up into the mountains near Trinidad and caught a big storm in E CO that was pretty wicked and lots of fun to chase. It was May 31, so not technically June, but close enough. :-)http://www.texastailchaser.com/chases/2006/blog/may31/pictures/index.html
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