Ok lets talk about this crap… people seem to read my blog so hopefully some people can put the pitchforks away. It’s a grey area, was that vehicle in the infamous video with CSWR on it V2?  No. Do I think V2 has their own share of traffic blunders?  Yes. The vehcile in the picture from what I hear was in fact a vehicle attached to the TIV. I...

May 19, 2010

Share Ok I can’t bite my tongue on it anymore! We all want to chase, this road is my road.  This road is your road. This road belongs to ME, YOU, REED, TWC, V2 whoever. Oh we got stuck in traffic and did not get to the storm… SO DID THE PERSON BEHIND YOU! TWC even made a tweet today about how bad all the chaser traffic was, well WTF were you...

May 4, 2010

What a horrible day that ended in complete success! Adam Lucio, Danny Neal & Ben Holcomb spent the night at Hotel Bennett, we knew we would be chasing the next day but I was determined to get a 1/2 day of work in.    About mid morning someone in our Lincoln office got a virus on their machine so I had to run down there, figured we would be setup for my...

Apr 22, 2010

What a SPECTACULAR chase! Went to OKC to meet up with Steve Miller OK and Ben Holcomb on Wed night to setup for Thursday. Hans Schroder picked up Steve and I and we headed out with a target of Childress, TX.   In the end we were near Goodnight, TX where we were tracking the storm that did produce all the tornadoes.   We were intreguied by the southern end of...

Apr 6, 2010

From 04/06/10 Grinnell Waking up in St. Joseph in a NASTY Days Inn, not the worst MOTEL I had ever been in, but a new low for a named chain we went and grabbed some lunch. I think all spirits were low this morning Ben Holcomb, Adam Lucio, L.B. Laforce and L.B.’s Dad (Bill) all stayed the night. Looking over the forecast we need to be closer to Des...

Apr 5, 2010

Hiawatha… The plains largest data hole exists between Sebetha, KS – Falls City, NE and St Joseph, MO.  (Ben Holcomb will disagree)  I hate chasing here but as usual we find ourselves sitting and waiting.   Data is so bad I typically hang out in Sebetha at the Mc Donalds but Chris Rice has Barron so we chilled here.    Met up with Steve...

I am way behind on the blogs so I am going to get a bunch in here in a hurry. Chase logs for my first 5 chases of the year will be up later tonight. Winter this year was hard and long but some of it was my own doing.   We did some major updates to the code that drives ChaserTV many features we always wanted but did not have time to complete got done.   The...

Lets make no mistake I have always been a fan of the beloved Tivo. We purchased our first one on Fathers Day 2001, Chris wanted nothing to do with the thing and thought it was a complete waste of money. Skip forward almost 10 years, we own 2 of the devices and have owned all the “Series” so far in fact the only reason we left DirecTV was because our...