Day 2 May22, 07

Tuesday,5/22/07
11:58
Today is looking good We have 10% chance of tornadoes!! Very nice!
We are heading towards Kansas now.
1:14 heading south on 183 we have entered Kansas.I am having such a good time riding in the suburban with everyone the other guest, Heidi and Glenn are great Glenn is a riot keeping us all laughing! We passed some interesting restaurants-THE CHUBBY PICKLE-
MM sounds good huh maybe if you are a porn star...and then there is the FRISKY BRISKET. Glenn made a comment to Diane who is not to bee seen or heard on the camera but she was filming him and he asked her not to point that that thing at his chubby pickle..like i said he is full laughs.
we ate at subway, we had a little fan club! Peggy went in and gave them her card.
They couldn't keep there eyes off all the cameras.
I wish I was a great writer so i could describe the beautiful land i am seeing.
I always pictured everything flat,that is so not the case. The hills are so full of life and so intensely green. The cows sure do have it made!

4:09
The chase is on...I am so pumped up I wish we could put on some metalica!
50 miles east storms are brewing west of Hayes
Tornado watch is up!!!
4;18
RIDING ON 70 GOING WEST
three chasers vehicles just passed one said Alabama chasers man the are hauling ass!!
So are we now(still wishing for some metalica)( I kinda feel like were in the movie Twister)
we just passed marker 151 the storm has gone purple WAHOO!!
5:08We just stopped to watch the structure of the super cell we are chasing.
The Mamatas(NOT SURE IF THE SPELLING IS RIGHT) clouds are beautiful!!
scud clouds are forming under the updraft.Scud cloud just attached creating a developing wall cloud.
5:18 WE GOT ROTATION!!
We turned onto a unnamed road" BOBS ROAD" We have A tornado warning,oh man this cell is beautiful almost like a space ship coming in. I cant believe what I'm seeing the inflow winds are so strong and the sound is so Erie I LOVE IT!!!!!
Its hailing now. some are quarter size and golf ball size. Glen wanted to know what it was like to feel hail so he stepped out side, funny he wasn't getting hit until Carrol(THE SOUND GUY) came up from behind and nailed in the back...funny Glen didn't even know until he got back in the suburban and we told him..
7:04 T-TIME Oh yea we got touch down!! F&%KEn eh man!!
This is what its all about.Watching it form,touching down Melanie was jumping up and down like we were at a football game and the team she was rooting for made just won with only seconds left! Touchdown!!! I too was omging Intense!!
I am so loving this.The tornado didn't last to long. I got a kick of how many chasers there were i even saw the Doppler on wheels!
Some of the chasers I was introduced too were John Wetter, Bill Hark Dave Floyd and Jeff and Katheryn Piotrowski.
We saw an intence hail core coming are way so it was time to go the production team wanted to get some otf(ON THE FLY INTERVEIWS) so we stopped at a rest stop where i got a good look at a shelf cloud coming are way with heavy rain and hail behind it.
Peggy said we had about four minutes till arrival but i wasn't taking any chances I took a picture of the shelf cloud and got right back in the car. Heidi and Glen were doing the otf interview bit were not so lucky they got soaked we got caught in the heavy rain We couldn't even see out the car but Melonie was directing Peggy( THE TWO WORK TOGATHER AS ONE) And soon we were out of harms way!!!
9:30 As we entered back into Hayes, Kansas A tornado siren was going off! Peggy informed us that there was no tornado just strong storms with a heavy winds and hail.
We pulled into Whiskey creek restaurant and people were running out Peggy and Melonie were trying to reassure them that there was no tornado.
When we got inside the place was deserted we were like hello anyone here...Finely we got sat and our waitress was in tears and shaking again we tried reassure here she was safe and if there was one coming who better to be with then the twister sisters!!
They brought in their laptops and put on the radars but even still she came back to tell us if we wanted to go down stair we were welcome and went on to tell everybody else who is the restaurant.
What was funny was the only people left in the restaurant eating were storm chasers.
That's were I was introduced to Dean Cosgrove, Peggy told me he Does storm chasing tours and they send people to him all the time. What a job!!!
I cant believe the day i had today, In my 35 years off life this was the best!!!
I wish I could do this everyday!!
To top everything off we stayed at the hampton with the most comfortable bed ever like a giant pillow!!1I hope i dream of this day every night!! Thank you Twister sister for this day and to everybody involved big hugs and love! you have made this Florida girl so very happy!!!!!!
To be continued...next the meeting of other chasers who were with us
Brad Nelson and his girl marylynn and Bill Dom's and his nine year old son Cullen who has already seen 21 tornadoes Lucky boy.