Firegeezer says: One of our frequent cyberspondents and contributors, Steve Marshall is a professional storm chaser. His credits include establishing the Discovery Channel’s severe weather section. Each spring when the “tornado season” begins inthe Tornado Alley of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, he sets out to earn his pay by chasing down and recording the violent storms and tornadoes that rip through the area.
This year he is letting our newest correspondent, the Firegeezer Gnome, tag along and the little fellow will be sending us regular reports on their travels and experiences. They arrived in the Texas panhandle Monday and we’ll let F.G. Gnome take it from here:
Hello, Everybody! I’m glad you’re here and I hope you will follow our wild ride for the next 3 weeks. My boss Steve picked me up last weekend and I’ll be chronicling our adventure.
On the way down to Texas, we passed through Oklahoma City and naturally Steve, who has been in the fire service for decades, had to stop by a firehouse for a visit. We stopped in to Ladder 31′s quarters where we got this nifty picture. What do you think of it?
From there we continued on down to Amarillo, stopping at the state line rest area for a break.
Amarillo is in the panhandle of Texas and just twister away from the Oklahoma panhandle. We set up our first operations base there and started getting ready to work.
I’ll be back soon with the latest, so check back every day to see what we’re doing.
F. G. Gnome
