I’ve written up chase logs of each of my favorite six storm chases from a pretty quiet 2020 – the April 11 supercell near Haskell, TX; the April 21 big hailer near Canadian, TX; the April 22 large tornado near Springer, OK; the May 13 shelf cloud in southwest OK; the May 22 weak tornadoes …
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Meet Scipio
Elizabeth and I have a puppy! We adopted him on October 30, and the last month or so has been a never-ending battle of spray bottles, carpet stains, chewed socks, and way-too-fancily named dog treats. Scipio is 3 and a half months old, is an Australian cattle dog mixed with a Pomeranian, and has completely …
Chase Log: August 31, 2020 – A Hailer At Home
Sometimes, you travel to chase the storm. Sometimes, the storm hits your home. On the last day of August of this year, we got a little bit of both – a Highway 9 supercell that stalled right over Norman and produced some of the wildest weather I saw in what was a pretty crazy year. …
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Summer 2020: Shenandoah National Park
In the middle of this past June, Elizabeth and I got away from Norman for a couple of weeks to spend some time at her mother’s house near Washington, D.C. I have hoped to be able to blog about that trip for some time now, but I’ve been pretty daunted at the enormity of the …
Counting down my undergrad OU football games: 48-40 – The Ones I Missed
A football season can last a long time. 12 regular-season games, a conference title, a bowl game, and just one or two bye weeks… unless you’re willing to trade every Saturday of your fall, you’re going to miss a few games. I certainly did, for various reasons. Today’s countdown of my favorite OU games as …
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Summer 2020: Camping at Chickasaw National Recreation Area
It’s been a bad time to be in a transition period in life. People are moving away, moving on to new things; and yet, we can’t even say good-bye because of that pesky once-in-a-century pandemic. What unfolds in the paragraphs below amounts to a good-bye adventure with Bradley and James before they both packed up …
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Some Thoughts on Personal Growth
This is a bit different than a lot of posts on this blog. A lot of times I keep this blog as a running diary of experiences in my life, with the future in mind. 20 years from now, I hope to find the contents of this blog and be able to reminisce on my …
Counting down my undergrad OU football games: 55-49 – The Losses
Toward late summer, I always end up missing college football. Without sports in 2020, that feeling has gone a little extra this year. With that in mind, I’ve decided to count down all 55 OU football games from my undergraduate years, ranked in order of how much I enjoyed them. I think this will be …
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Summer 2020: Comet Neowise Viewing – July 16
Elizabeth and I have been trying to see the famed comet Neowise for several days now, as it slowly rises up the northwestern horizon. However, that’s a little hard when you live just southeast of a major city. Because of light pollution, we determined that we were going to have to find a darker sky …
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Chase Log: May 22, 2020 – Tornadoes in Northwest Texas
This is going to be a doozy of a chase log. Not only will we be discussing a beautiful supercell that produced multiple tornadoes, but we’ll be talking about walkie talkies, me yelling at Jason, and a “poop emergency”. The final real chase of the 2020 season ended in a fitting way – with a …
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