When the Sky Breaks: Arizona Hail and Louisiana Floods, or How I May Have Cheated Death Twice More on a Greyhound Bus

I realize now, looking back at my original plot armor post, that I made a promise I somehow failed to keep. I told you there were more tornado encounters to share, specifically mentioning a third one, and then I just left you hanging like a cliffhanger in a television show that gets canceled before the next season. So here I am, making good on that promise, though I have to warn you upfront that these next two encounters exist in a strange gray area between definite tornado stories and maybe […]

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The scattered cells that missed my spot this morning consolidated SE of Walker Lake, NV and blew up. In retrospect, after watching the storm's progress on radar, it turns out that I could have caught up to it. It was about an hour away, so I assumed it would have been played out by then. Instead, it amplified. Eh, win some, lose some.

Now I'm just waiting to see if the afternoon forecast is correct and some new storms form over Mono Lake. Right now, the radar shows nothing heading this way.
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There is another storm cell on the far north east corner of Mono Lake dropping some bolts, but it's way too far away to be useful and, besides, the wind is gusting too massively to be able to keep a tripod steady. And it's lightly raining. So I think I'm calling it a night.

Chance of thunderstorms again tomorrow afternoon, but this time higher likelihood of rain, which will make it even harder to catch bolts.

#StormChasing #RainedOutStormChaserBlues #StormWaiting

Big storm cells still moving through Tucson and multiple parts of Southeast Arizona, but I went straight to the Wilcox Playa as planned. Coming in, I could see some nice cells moving across the playa (photo), even dropping a few bolts, but by the time I got parked it began pouring. Waiting it out in the truck, hoping for some action on the next cycle.

I've got paper books and about three weeks worth of audiobooks (thanks for the suggestions a few days ago, everyone).

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