Other Chasers

I am putting together a list with links to other chasers blogs, So far I have added the ones that I visit regularly. If you would like your chase/wx blog added to my list, or would like to add me to your list, then shoot me an e-mail at: svrwxgirl@gmail.com, or lucyblinebury@yahoo.com

Please include your full name, and the URL of your blog/website.

Something I wrote ages ago:-

TORNADO

I go for miles to find you

On the chase for weeks on end

To be wrapped up in your awesome beauty

And awestruck by your ferocity

Such a beautiful entity

So powerful and frightening

Yet so amazing and beautiful

I chase for miles state after state

Watching the clouds and watching the sky..

I go for weeks if not years without seeing you

But I know my hunting will not always be in vain

I wish to watch you tear across the plains

With your destructive beauty and your fearful wrath

Because while I fear your destruction and deadly winds
Your beauty and power are what draws me to you
I somehow wish I could be picked up by you

And taken on a journey for miles and miles
But I know that is a death wish
As I know no tornado will put me down safely!

Everyone runs from you
I want to run to you.. beautiful tornado..

One day I will see you
Whether I live to tell the tale or no

I'll still chase long days on the highways
Surrounded by burning sun and fields of corn

And prairies that stretch out forever and ever

Wondering if at the end I will find my perfect storm
...And my perfect tornado..

Wondering if I will live to share my experience
With any one other than my self..

Or perhaps just the Tornado..

The only one who will be the last to see me
Under this big dark stormy sky..

...Take me away..

Lucy Blinebury 2008

Remainder of June and July so far...

Have been PAINFULLY slow here in the Great Lakes region. The temps have been somewhat chilly for July, and June, as a whole has been pretty wet. As for severe wx...practiaclly non-existent. A few high elevated T-stms, and lots of precip...

I am guessing the El-Nino pattern has a big part to play in this odd wx situation.
I am really wishing we were back in 2008. That was a BIG year for me, as it was my first in the USA, and the severe wx was plentiful... what was it...30 reported tornadoes in IN last year? Compared to this years paltry 11-12?
I have only seen pea size hail ONCE this summer, so far...

Yeah...very dull and very quiet.
I have been out chasing a couple times, and have gotten on the odd isolated storm, including a random cell in Peoria, IL...but nothing severe, or amazing has happened... So no pics as I havent gotten anything worth photographing.

There is a video or two on my You tube site, of some lightning on I74... but really... not much else going on.

Apart from seeing a VERY faint cold-air funnel cloud this past Sunday. I saw it when I was coming back from purchasing a new camera tripod. It lasted all of about a minute.

Well, I am hoping to get back out west sometime in September. We will see what the Wx brings.
I have some friends coming to visit me from OK, for the Nascar Race, then I am heading to Wisconsin after that...so Ill be busy over the next week or so.

In the meantime... send me some severe wx. Package it and label it to: Svr Wx Girl, Speedway, IN. Thanks :)

June 2nd 2009

In my neighborhood again... Funny how all the good stuff starts to show up, after you have already clocked up many miles and gas on chasing...Hahaaaa!

Anyway, some amazing shelf clouds close in on Speedway Indiana...
My husband kindly took these for me, as I was on a late shift at work this day. The power went out for a short time after my shift, so that Steak n Shake was not forthcoming that night...

Thems the breaks I guess. Anyway:

Kudos go to Gary, My husband for taking the photo's.

May 30th-My Neighborhood

This has to be the best Storm event, here in my State, so far. This happened on Saturday May 30th, a couple hours after I had made it back home from my first day on my new job...

At about 8pm that night, some really awesome supercells moved in on Speedway Indiana, to pay us a well-deserved visit, Tornado sirens and all. It was basically awesome, because we didnt have to head out far at all. We primarily stayed at home, on the front lawn, with cameras pointing at the sky and nader-sirens blaring...Everyone else of course stayed indoors, and probably figured we were mad. Gary got up on the roof of the house to get some of these pics.

That was just the start...

At about 9pm, we decided to head out to the coke-lot to get a better look at things. We jumped in the car and headed north of the neighborhood, to the coke lot.

We saw some very questionable structure once down there, It turned out to be a wall-cloud. Anyone else probably would of had it down as a wedge. I knew it wasnt, as there was no signs of rotation, and the only thing to fool me were the trees that were hindering my view. Anyway, I got one or two shots of it, cos it looked kinda cool. Also I took some photos of the big meso to the east of it, which hung over the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a while.

(Note; I hate my camera. I am still using point and shoot compact and a cellphone (Blackberry)...so quality sucks!

This time next season I will be the proud owner of the Nikon D90...worry not!!)

...And this time next season, I will be out on the plains a lot more, too!

May 29th 09 Local Chase

We started off chasing a discrete cell up in Lebanon, IN, which was looking pretty good, until we started down this one country road just north of Lebanon, only to be hindered by the fact, a semi had rolled over further down the street...luckily for us, a local was out on the road, directing traffic to turn round and divert, before we got too far down...We appreciated that, as it meant we were not suck for long, we just did a u-ey in someones driveway, then headed south again. We then carried on due east, but by this time, the cell I was on literally fell apart right in front of me...It had a rain shaft that lasted all of 2 minutes. It basically ate itself up, and dumped on its updraft, which for a while had been pretty good...




Lebanon cell in its early stages

Anyway...I thought that was going to be it for the night. My radar had crapped out on me, and I was getting pretty pissed at that point.
We sat and discussed what to do next, and I suggested we head west down 70, because there could be some good stuff brewing over there. Anyway, we headed back to 65, to get back over to 70. As we were heading down 65, to the west I could see some pretty awesome looking structures hanging over the I70 region.

I was taking pics and posting them right onto facebook, as I was travelling...
(Pics of the I70 storms below)

We headed in the general direction of I70, and it wasnt long before we got ourselves a really awesome lightning show. We decided we would take US40, so we didnt get all the traffic and semi's etc. I cannot stand chasing on the Interstate...

We lost daylight pretty rapidly, and finally came to Brazil, IN, when we actually found ourselves under this huge meso. I had it back up on radar, and it looked very impressive. Best storm we have happened upon, so far here in Indy! (It was preceded and followed by at least two or three others just like it. I was amazed they didnt all congeal together, like most of these systems tend to here in Indiana...)

We sat in a parking lot for a while and took in the lightning show. Literally every flash was CG! All around us. It was wild, and the rain was also really heavy. This was a slow mover. This cell wasnt going anywhere for a while.

After about 20 minutes, when we decided the storms had died down a bit, we decided to head for home, as it was now 11.30pm on a work night (oops), and we were both beat!

We turned the truck round to get back on the highway, and as we did, a bolt hit the ground on the median, practically beside us! That is now FOUR occasions where I have had close shaves with CG! It was really weird, cos this time, it was night time, and the lightning was so much brighter, It almost stung my eyes!

Anyway, we headed home, after a successful evening, as such. No tornadoes in the end...But what a lightning show! I could see it for miles in the distance, still dropping bolts in the same area, for ages. That was a good strong storm. I like!!

Got back home, and not a drop of rain had even touched the ground-surprize surprize!

May 26th 09: Cumulus clouds finally come to Indiana...

(Here I am again, adding some stuff thats a month old, or so. Yeah, I know....shoulda made this blog last summer, really! Dammitt!)


::Random photo's of cumulus clouds...something we havent seen much of here in Indy, til about now...(May 26th)Maybe at last the storms will start showing up locally::