Sunday, March 01, 2009

Snow, chasing book, and upcoming trip to Tornado Alley

As I'm writing this I'm watching a serious snowstorm get started here in northern Virginia, with totals forecast to be in the 5-10" range depending on where one is located. As I've stated in earlier posts winter is most assuredly not my favorite season, and shoveling snow is one of my most unfavorite activities. However, it doesn't look like I'll get much choice over the next 24 hours or so.

Meanwhile, I did receive the second printing of volume two of my stormchase book this week (minus the extra 30 pages of someone else's cookbook contained in the original printing). I've already corrected several obvious format and grammatical errors, but the primary changes involve changing and / or re-editing a number of pictures. It's amazing how different a printed photograph looks when compared to the view on my laptop...

And finally, I booked flights to and from Dallas in May for the latest White family Tornado Alley chase trip. (Unfortunately my son and daughter-in-law won't be available for this year's trip, but I'm sure we'll find time to chase together between here and Roanoke.) My brother will be driving up from Austin to pick me up and we'll have nine days to troll for supercells. I plan to blog daily to detail our efforts, which will - hopefully - be productive this year.

I just looked again and, yep, it's still snowing...

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