http://stormbruiser.com/chase Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:46:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://stormbruiser.com/chase/2010/05/03/may-3-2010-picher-and-neutral-ok-and-ks/ http://stormbruiser.com/chase/2010/05/03/may-3-2010-picher-and-neutral-ok-and-ks/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 21:12:34 +0000 Bill http://stormbruiser.com/chase/?p=4125 We had time to kill in between systems, so we poked around Picher, OK.  Much of Picher was thrashed by a large tornado on May 10, 2008.  The town was in a steep decline anyway because of contaminated ground water, and had been ordered evacuated by the government years prior.  After our look at Picher, we moseyed north into Kansas and found Neutral, a place that is barely a place.

]]> http://stormbruiser.com/chase/2010/05/03/may-3-2010-picher-and-neutral-ok-and-ks/feed/ 0 http://stormbruiser.com/chase/2008/04/04/april-4-2008-bird-of-prey-now-arriving-at-gate-64/ http://stormbruiser.com/chase/2008/04/04/april-4-2008-bird-of-prey-now-arriving-at-gate-64/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:06:42 +0000 Bill http://stormbruiser.com/chase/2008/04/04/april-4-2008-bird-of-prey-now-arriving-at-gate-64/ I was on the 16th-floor observation deck at LAX, minding my own business while photographing the jets, when a large bird landed on one of the control-tower struts above me.  He or she looked at me, so I figure that it wanted its picture taken, or it wanted to eat me.  Later, it flew around and came back to the same resting place for another visit.  I was deemed too large to kill without assuming tremendous bodily harm, apparently.  The bird is a falcon…perhaps a peregrine falcon??

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