The Two Golden Words and the "H" Blog

Dan Robinson's latest blog entry about the reality of chasing about sums it up, I'm thinking. Two golden words that all newcomers should take to heart about chasing: Nobody Cares.

Year after year a fresh batch show up looking to make it big, become some sort of action hero and live the good life as a famous storm chaser. I don't even try to respond to the posts anymore or make any attempt to bring these people somewhere into the realm of reality. They will discover it on their own soon enough. The only real gratification in storm chasing comes to the individual who just does it because they love it. Then every storm becomes a gift.

In other news, Mike Hollingshead finally started a blog, looks like. He's been added to my blog roll at the right. Hopefully he will actually use the thing. Believe it or not, I actually check the chase blogs more often than the forums. I can pick and choose whose feeds I get on my iGoogle homepage and then see the posts that deserve a click. No more wading through nonsense. So H - and every other chaser out there with a blog - if you have something cool to share, don't forget to blog it. If it's good enough to share in ST, copy and paste it into your blog too. Geeky types like me enjoy that sort of thing.