Fowarded from the field:
Jason Breakiron
Meso Chase Team
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MESOmomma{at}aol.com Subject: MESO Chase Log May 19-20
We apologize for the lapse in updates, but our Internet connections have
been iffy, and our FTP server is down, making it impossible to update
our web page. However, you can view our photos at www.allandetrich.com.
Also, we've been driving our little behinds off...having logged on over
4,000 miles since day 1.
May 19-20
The team members from Alpha team made a mad dash
from SW Nebraska on Friday am to get to Wichita by noon on Friday to
meet the incoming Beta team members. The first expected member was Jill
Borden, but we arrived to find that Jill's flight was canceled due to
severe weather.
We bid Bill Steigerwald good bye, which was
tough. Bill is a great chase partner, and we hoped we provided him with
at least a few stories. Then we made a mad dash back to the hotel to
welcome John Bender, who surprised us with our own RADAR on McWar. McWar
is one of the most state of the art vehicles out there, but we always
seem to have enough room for one more toy.
Grizz was the next to arrive, with his new Dodge
Ram Quad cab, loaded to the teeth with GPS, cellular data center,
mechanics kit, and on and on. We consider it important to have well lit
vehicles in the field when we're in active chase, but Grizz's truck is a
light SHOW. The truck is DOPED UP!
Back to the airport to pick up Eric from
Ryboprod, a French film production company that is doing a documentary
on MESO. Eric proved to be up to the rigors of chasing, but he was
perhaps unprepared for the "Down Day Delirium" that prevails on our
team. Jill pulled in about that time, taking a shuttle from the airport,
and last to arrive were Doug Elick and Steve Chambers.
This is the largest team we've ever had on the
road, and we have a few bugs to work out as far as organization and
communication, but I think we'll be just fine.
We departed the next morning for what we would
hope was the area of highest probability....and we were treated to some
storms that popped up near the OK panhandle just ahead of the dryline.
The cellular connections are horrible this year, but one really can't
expect much from the middle of a cow pasture. Nothing of earth
shattering proportions, but more than what we expected. We even caught a
little bit of a wall cloud that dropped down to visit for a bit, and
terrific cg (cloud to ground) lightening. What never ceases to amaze is
the brilliant panorama that these plains storms produce....and how
wonderfully unique they truly are.
Highlights of the day were Allan inventing a new
turtle cam, Eric discovering that Americans really ARE crazy, Doug
discovering the outer limits of bladder control, Nancy discovering that
calf fries are nothing you're gonna find on a menu in New York, and the
entire team discovering that even McWar must yield to an angry longhorn.
For now, we're discovering how to work together,
and what different people's capabilities and strengths (and weaknesses)
are. A lot of people represent a lot of opinions, and each one is valid;
or should be dealt with as such.
Nancy Bose
<A HREF="http://www.mcwar.org/">MESO</A>
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