Storm Chasing
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Did you take the photo of the lightning hitting the tower? It is quite .. striking :laugh:. If so, how did you manage it? "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown
yep - they're all my (badly scanned) work. The tower strike was done by balancing the camera on my car roof and going *click* when the tower was struck. A misspent youth playing video games gave me good reflexes ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
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Is Storm a man or woman's name? :confused: The odd thing is that I would not have thought that 'storm' could (or would) be used for a person's name, but just last week I heard of a person with that name. (I don't know whether that person was male of female, so I was wondering.) "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown
She is a character in X-Men comics and the movie Paresh Solanki Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday.
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****Colin Davies wrote: A pr0n star is a pr0n star. Why is in pr0n rather than p0rn? Switching the 'o' for a '0' should be cryptic enough without rearranging the letters. As for storm being a girls name, I consider a (weather) storm to be more masculine (destructive (i.e. tornado, lightning) ) rather than feminine (nurturing), so I assumed it was a man's name. I like unusual names, but I wonder about parents who would name their baby storm -- unless they had expectations about their childs future. Do you think that names influence the personalities of children? "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown
Daniel Ferguson wrote: Why is in pr0n rather than p0rn? It stems from 1337 speak where you have phrases like 'it r0x0rz my b0x0rz' meaning it 'rocks my box' (box being PC). James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
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Over here it's mainly sitting in the rain on hilltops trying not to get struck by lightning. I've always dreamed about heading up to Darwin to catch the decent storms they have their, and hopefully later this year I'll wander around Tornado valley in the US and see if I can't scare the willies out of myself. I've got a bunch of lightning shots lying around somewhere, but here's a taste of some other stuff. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: and hopefully later this year I'll wander around Tornado valley in the US Just don't call it Tornado "Valley". It's Tornado Alley. I was born and raised smack in the middle of it. I find it amusing that so many people seem to want to chase these things, having spent so much of my life running and hiding from them. During my life time, every single town in my home county of Washita in South western Oklahoma has been blown away at least once. My home town of Cordell finally got hit just last October by a rare fall tornado, it destroyed two thirds of the town (amazingly, nobody was injured). Anyway, if you go, have fun, and be careful. The Southern plains are a beautiful area and you are unlikely to find more hospitable people anywhere. (BTW, maps of Tornado Alley so it stretching well into the midwest, Illinois and Indiana, don't believe it. The real Alley runs from West Central Texas across most of Oklahoma and up across Kansas and then into Nebraska. That area gets nearly three times the number of twisters as anywhere else in the U.S. It's just that the area is so sparsely populated that most are not reported. I've stood and watched, from a respectful distance, mile wide tornados blowing across the prarie never hitting so much as a barn. ) "There's a slew of slip 'twixt cup and lip"
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yep - they're all my (badly scanned) work. The tower strike was done by balancing the camera on my car roof and going *click* when the tower was struck. A misspent youth playing video games gave me good reflexes ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: A misspent youth playing video games gave me good reflexes I have a misspent life then.* I saw a program about a guy who photographs lightning as a hobby all his life. By his reasoning, its impossible to react to a lightning strike (unless you had 2 on the same spot in a row). He just used to find a big storm and uses a heck of a lot film taking snaps of possible lightning strikes. It occurs to me, you may have just been lucky? Not putting down your reflexes or skill :-D * I used to spend my life on video games, still do to some extent, but I am more of a pinball madman these days Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I'm not breathing, I'm either dead or holding my breath. A fool jabbers, while a wise man listens. But is he so wise to listen to the fool?
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Chris Maunder wrote: and hopefully later this year I'll wander around Tornado valley in the US Just don't call it Tornado "Valley". It's Tornado Alley. I was born and raised smack in the middle of it. I find it amusing that so many people seem to want to chase these things, having spent so much of my life running and hiding from them. During my life time, every single town in my home county of Washita in South western Oklahoma has been blown away at least once. My home town of Cordell finally got hit just last October by a rare fall tornado, it destroyed two thirds of the town (amazingly, nobody was injured). Anyway, if you go, have fun, and be careful. The Southern plains are a beautiful area and you are unlikely to find more hospitable people anywhere. (BTW, maps of Tornado Alley so it stretching well into the midwest, Illinois and Indiana, don't believe it. The real Alley runs from West Central Texas across most of Oklahoma and up across Kansas and then into Nebraska. That area gets nearly three times the number of twisters as anywhere else in the U.S. It's just that the area is so sparsely populated that most are not reported. I've stood and watched, from a respectful distance, mile wide tornados blowing across the prarie never hitting so much as a barn. ) "There's a slew of slip 'twixt cup and lip"
Stan Shannon wrote: It's Tornado Alley <slaps self in forehead> Sorry about that :-O cheers, Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: A misspent youth playing video games gave me good reflexes I have a misspent life then.* I saw a program about a guy who photographs lightning as a hobby all his life. By his reasoning, its impossible to react to a lightning strike (unless you had 2 on the same spot in a row). He just used to find a big storm and uses a heck of a lot film taking snaps of possible lightning strikes. It occurs to me, you may have just been lucky? Not putting down your reflexes or skill :-D * I used to spend my life on video games, still do to some extent, but I am more of a pinball madman these days Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I'm not breathing, I'm either dead or holding my breath. A fool jabbers, while a wise man listens. But is he so wise to listen to the fool?
Roger Allen wrote: By his reasoning, its impossible to react to a lightning strike (unless you had 2 on the same spot in a row). A strike may last less than 1/250th of a second, but it's also very common for there to be multiple strikes. I've seen lightning strikes that have lasted a couple of seconds - more than enough time for even the most casual among us to get a Kodak moment. The day in question I had a fresh roll of 36. Needless to say that pic was the only one that turned out ;) I've got an awesome shot of a mutli-branched strike coming out of the rainy center of a small storm that I caught handheld. I've just turned my office upside down and I can't find the damned thing :( Next time... cheers, Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: and hopefully later this year I'll wander around Tornado valley in the US Just don't call it Tornado "Valley". It's Tornado Alley. I was born and raised smack in the middle of it. I find it amusing that so many people seem to want to chase these things, having spent so much of my life running and hiding from them. During my life time, every single town in my home county of Washita in South western Oklahoma has been blown away at least once. My home town of Cordell finally got hit just last October by a rare fall tornado, it destroyed two thirds of the town (amazingly, nobody was injured). Anyway, if you go, have fun, and be careful. The Southern plains are a beautiful area and you are unlikely to find more hospitable people anywhere. (BTW, maps of Tornado Alley so it stretching well into the midwest, Illinois and Indiana, don't believe it. The real Alley runs from West Central Texas across most of Oklahoma and up across Kansas and then into Nebraska. That area gets nearly three times the number of twisters as anywhere else in the U.S. It's just that the area is so sparsely populated that most are not reported. I've stood and watched, from a respectful distance, mile wide tornados blowing across the prarie never hitting so much as a barn. ) "There's a slew of slip 'twixt cup and lip"
Well, the Tornado 'Valley' is over here in the Tennessee valley. I live in Huntsville, and although we don't get quite as many Tornado's as you do over the TX and OK. Ours tend to generate much more damage and injuries because of the denser population. An interesting note is that Native Americans avoided settling the tennessee valley area in the spring and fall because of the Tornados. From an internal company e-mail November, 2001 -- "Would the person who stole the ethics training manual from the class last Friday please return it."
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Well, the Tornado 'Valley' is over here in the Tennessee valley. I live in Huntsville, and although we don't get quite as many Tornado's as you do over the TX and OK. Ours tend to generate much more damage and injuries because of the denser population. An interesting note is that Native Americans avoided settling the tennessee valley area in the spring and fall because of the Tornados. From an internal company e-mail November, 2001 -- "Would the person who stole the ethics training manual from the class last Friday please return it."
I lived in Tuscaloosa for a couble of years (I loved Alabama, wish I could have stayed) and I will have to agree that they get their share of twisters back there! "There's a slew of slip 'twixt cup and lip"
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Over here it's mainly sitting in the rain on hilltops trying not to get struck by lightning. I've always dreamed about heading up to Darwin to catch the decent storms they have their, and hopefully later this year I'll wander around Tornado valley in the US and see if I can't scare the willies out of myself. I've got a bunch of lightning shots lying around somewhere, but here's a taste of some other stuff. cheers, Chris Maunder
Our physics teacher went to an international conference type thing held in Australia a few months back now (Geoff Auty, old guy (hope he's not reading this), in case anyone else was there; if you met this guy you met my physics tutor) and he visited the "strange building in Oz" (the opera house) and they actually let him sing on stage when it was empty. I would have *killed* to play there. [that was a reply to Chris' post, sorry] -- Andrew.