Chase of April 9th, 2009

Chase Summary

I hung out in Claremore, OK where I was set to report in our 5 o'clock but couldn't get through to the station although Skype technology was working fine. I decided to head east on Hwy 20 which seemed like a good idea until it stopped being a nice four lane and turned into a twist and wind headache which included a hairpin turn!! Wow, it even had a hand-painted sign which said "Dead Man's Turn" which for a second I laughed at but then lucky decided to take seriously.
I set up for the second live report in our six about 10 miles west of Jay, again had a great shot using Skype and the comedy of errors continued when a mere 10 seconds before I was set to talk to Jill, my laptop when into hibernate! The inverter had been switched off and the battery died.

I DID stumble across a very interesting circulation at 20 and 59 in Jay which I will post in a minute.

The whole chase I was south of the only tornado in NE OK and if I had taken I-44 back home I might have seen it. Oh well.

Add to this forgetting to put a tape in my video camera and not having cash for toll booths and getting back to live tornado warning coverage and it was an interesting chase day.

FYI, live streaming through Severe Studios would work for a few mintues and then crash so I eventually turned it off. But I think these issues can be worked out.