Storm chasing

It's about 6:00 PM and I'm really tired... This morning started at 3:45 AM when I woke up to a severe thunderstorm. We had no Internet access, no cable TV and my weather radio wasn't picking up crap. The storm looked bad, so I wired up our TV to the battery bank and cranked up our power TV antenna. Sure enough the entire area surrounding us was under a severe thunderstorm warning with high wind gusts (up to 70 MPH) and the possibility of large hail. The storm split and went both North and South of us, so we were just treated to lightning, thunder, some minor wind and rain. Still, being a Pacific Coast boy - I was freaked out. Becky (being a Mid West girl) just looked at me like I was an idiot...

We managed to outrun the next wave of the storms headed our way. Notice the black couds in the rear-view mirror... We took some back roads and bypassed the big cities. We thought we were being slick skipping all of the big cities and heading straight north, but our main interstate turned out to be detoured (in the wrong direction) and we spent an extra 75 or so miles trying to find a way around the detour... Bottom line, we could have made the same distance on the main highways in much less time and ended up exactly where we're staying tonight. We took the VERY scenic route.

We have high speed internet access tonight, and from the looks of the weather websites - we're in for another noisy, windy and rainy night...