Return From Gustav
Writing this on the road from Post, Texas. After an incredible experience intercepting Gustav, it is indeed nice to return home. It is very late, so I'll be crashing out at David's house before returning to Amarillo tomorrow. When I do, it will be the first time to sleep in my own bed in over a week. I'm looking forward to it, believe me!
We were able to intercept the intense eyewall of Gustav around Morgan City where we experienced estimated 100-plus mph gusts!! Unfortunately, it was strong enough to loft some gravel from the roadside and blast out a side window of the van. The air pressure then immediately caused the rear window to blow out as well. It was abit unnerving to say the least. We were okay though and immediately got next to a strong building to do an emergency repair on the windows. Other than that, we were able to enjoy the show displayed by mother nature in her all of her fury.
The eye passed right over us and it was amazing to see things go calm, the wind shift to the opposite direction and increase as the eye moved away. Unfortunately, the eye was all cloudy, so no cool stadium effect occurred. At least the southern part of the eyewall was not nearly as intense.
We then did alot of damage surveying and documentation. I'll post links to the video clips of this and our other storm video soon, but in the meantime, visit SevereStudios.com or David Drummond's blog to see what we captured. The cool thing about this intercept was the ability to not only do live streaming through SevereStudios.com, but also post several video blogs of our trip and intercept which are also on SevereStudios' and David's blog. David and I worked very well as a team in addition to instigating several laugh riots. :-)
So, stay tuned for photos and video clips soon! Thanks again to Jay McCoy for cat sitting too. ;-)
We were able to intercept the intense eyewall of Gustav around Morgan City where we experienced estimated 100-plus mph gusts!! Unfortunately, it was strong enough to loft some gravel from the roadside and blast out a side window of the van. The air pressure then immediately caused the rear window to blow out as well. It was abit unnerving to say the least. We were okay though and immediately got next to a strong building to do an emergency repair on the windows. Other than that, we were able to enjoy the show displayed by mother nature in her all of her fury.
The eye passed right over us and it was amazing to see things go calm, the wind shift to the opposite direction and increase as the eye moved away. Unfortunately, the eye was all cloudy, so no cool stadium effect occurred. At least the southern part of the eyewall was not nearly as intense.
We then did alot of damage surveying and documentation. I'll post links to the video clips of this and our other storm video soon, but in the meantime, visit SevereStudios.com or David Drummond's blog to see what we captured. The cool thing about this intercept was the ability to not only do live streaming through SevereStudios.com, but also post several video blogs of our trip and intercept which are also on SevereStudios' and David's blog. David and I worked very well as a team in addition to instigating several laugh riots. :-)
So, stay tuned for photos and video clips soon! Thanks again to Jay McCoy for cat sitting too. ;-)
posted by Steve Miller TX at 9/02/2008 11:54:00 PM
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