Storm Chaser. Adventurer. IT Professional.
Monday May 20, 2019 was a high risk day in Oklahoma with a high likelyhood of a large tornado outbreak. While the outlook mostly failed, there was one storm in Southwest Oklahoma near the town of Mangum which produced. This … Continued
Have you installed Unidata LDM on a Redhat 7 or CentOS 7 machine (or other system with systemd)? Well here is a script you can add to systemd to start on boot. This assumes your ldm is installed in /usr/local/ldm … Continued
After almost 2.5 years of building, I finally have migrated my former sites from Drupal and WordPress into a combined WordPress site. This included building a new plugin for storm chase accounts and redoing all of my galleries. I also … Continued
Got in on the Delta mistake fare to Saint Croix where someone had likely put the base fare in as 8 dollars instead of 800 dollars because taxes are approximately 65 bucks and the fare was 73 dollars round trip … Continued
A round trip on American Airlines for $425 from Oklahoma City (OKC) to Milan, Italy (LIN) and then 3 flights (Approx. 100 euros) to go from Milan to Malta, Malta to Catania, and Catania back to Milan. Went with JR … Continued
This was a trip that I almost wish I had not gone on as it was plagued with troubles from the beginning. The original plan was to fly to Seattle and go Whale Watching and visit the North Cascades National … Continued
I recently spoke at my first ChaserCon in Canada which was held in Calgary this year. Unfortunately I caught a bit of a cold and struggled through my presentation, but that is the problem with dry air. I love Calgary, … Continued
A trip to Calgary to speak at ChaserCon Canada 2017 and of course a couple extra days for heading up into the mountains!
It appears I may be undertaking my first Hurricane chase this upcoming weekend in Florida as Irma appears to make landfall as a strong annular hurricane. Right now models are showing a south Florida landfall, but they have been all … Continued
