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It was something rare. That took courage, since I’d been afraid of severe weather most of my life.
It all stemmed from that ‘Wizard of Oz’ tornado! Once the rapid update models come out of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, he plots a map of where the most likely spots for the severe weather will occur. Personally, chasing has helped me overcome my fear of severe weather and given me some real insight into nature’s most amazing phenomenon.
My partner and I have seen a few dozen tornadoes together on our chases; though he racks up many more miles than me since my time is more limited.
It’s most often a long drive out into the grasslands of Oklahoma or Kansas and getting little in the way of photographic evidence of tornadoes. His blog is at DungeonDiary.blogspot.com.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition June 7, 2013.
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A teen, who survived a devastating EF5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, in 2011, is speaking out all these years later.
Then, if the probabilities are strong enough, and it is within a reasonable distance (up to 400 miles sometimes), we hit the road.
Often we are accompanied by fellow storm chasers to share the driving and data collecting duties. and carved a destructive path through neighborhoods including the Central West End and North City, resulting in at least five fatalities.
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"It's great, but it's also been a little overwhelming for sure."He said that viewers have connected with the emotions he exhibited in the tornado documentary.
I have to wonder if they were inspired to take up the activity as a result of a childhood fascination stemming from that story of Dorothy Gale being swept away to Oz?
Hardy Haberman is a longtime local LGBT activist and board member for the Woodhull Freedom Alliance. I had nightmares for years after seeing the classic 1939 movie. The devastation was so severe that then-17-year-old Cecil Cornish thought the world was ending.
Somehow, Cornish survived the tornado.
The live radar data also helps keep us from getting in the path of the storms and actually has made chasing safer and more productive. Though this was a tragic accident, the truth is it is very rare. "And I think that that's resonated with men and women and queer people in general, and they like to have kind of a role model ...
people that are queer can feel more comfortable being themselves, especially in [today's] current climate."
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