May 12th 2009

Becca and I chased some cells in Nebraska after I landed in Denver that morning, we chased a super cell that produced a tornado, unfortunately the hills and poor road network made it hard to get a visual. We saw the funnel cloud 20 min before the reported touch down. Beautiful storms though, awesome chase day.

Lucky number Seven May 10th 09

Picture this scene, we take 2 trucks and the tiv to an off road heavy forrested area with red mud dirt trails. Both trucks are outfitted to carry Imax cameras to film the Tiv off roading. We take this trail doing some shots of the tiv, and then we have to switch a mag under a tarp, 6 of us holding up the tarp in the middle of the woods and rain, watching Sean Casey change out film in the cameras mag. Sean states this is a lot of pressure, and is loading in the largest format of film availabe in the world more than anything digital. I consider myself to be lucky number seven out of everyone on the planet to be in situations like that on this team. Everyone I work with is awesome, very knowledgable, and I respect them. I wouldnt want to be anywhere else then where I was today. A sweet show, and an amazing film that Sean is doing, as well as cooperating with the largest research project on torandoes in history. What did you do today?

May 7th 2009

Today we worked on a lot of vehicle stuff. We wired the air compressor, added a latch to our back window, we bolted some compartments up on the roof, added some more stuff for the Imax camera in the back. I got lost on the way back from home depot in Golfball. Vortex 2 and Josh showed up at our hotel today, so there was a lot of filming even though theres no storm chasing today. Sean told me I did more work than some people by just getting beer and putting ice on it lol. Tomorrow I think we are going to chase around South Central Oklahoma well see. Our crew is pretty much ready to start some Imax filming now in our beautiful V8 Red Tundra. Tiv 2 just got a lot of wiring done for its sensors. Once all teams are together 130 people and 50 vehicles are going to create chaos...imagine that many vehicles and people going to gas stations, going to the bathroom, or even driving down the highway.ahhh! Time to get some sleep, sean has to have the light on so he doesnt have nighmares of getting stuck under the TIV and im sharing a room with him haha. Night yall!

One crazy day, and I dont mean tornadoes...sucks

We chased all over oklahoma today, started out in Leedey then Woodward then we chased over western parts of Oklahoma

Report 4-24-09

Were going back elk city for the night, we saw some nice structure, got some golf ball sized hail, decent lightning for the day. However the Saturn is not running great, its been hit by a deer, the drivers side windshield wiper blade is broken and the head lights are broken so they dont work well, poor skinner and his car thats about to retire. Got a call from Disco and they want me to drive for a couple days for them now.

Awaiting in Elk City, Oklahoma

This is the Shep & Skin blog and Skin logging in for lazy Shep....sinus infection but still good to go tornado chasing....here's an initiation shot in front of the Duncans'....

Slight Risk over HOME!

Excited to see some risk for severe storms, super cells with tornadoes in my home area and in our "backyard" today. Get ready for some high plains chasing folks!! Just like last April! yey. Hope to see all the Colorado gang out there once again.