{"id":264,"date":"2008-05-25T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T14:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-05-25T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T14:26:24","slug":"052408-chase-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/052408-chase-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"05\/24\/08 Chase Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This day was a mixed bag of great chase success and massive fail.\u00a0 Managed to catch at least 3 tornadoes and yet a couple more MASSIVE rapidly rotating wall clouds.\u00a0 That was the good part.<\/p>\n

While shooting that last tornado above along I35, I was struck by lightning and thrown to the ground.\u00a0 I don’t recall exactly what happened during a few minutes there (luckily I had the camera on the tripod and wasn’t touching it), but on the video I said a few choice words apparently.<\/p>\n

I felt very odd afterwards and later passed an ambulance out spotting and got them to check my vital signs.\u00a0 Blood pressure was a bit low as was blood oxygen, but I was still operating so that was good.\u00a0 I felt very anxious for a long time, in fact I still do to some degree, and the headache is setting in.\u00a0 Last time I was struck in 2004 I had a horrible headache for a week.<\/p>\n

Continued on the chase to east of Perry and finally decided to give up as storm looked outflowish, and went back to the east of town to a parking lot to look over some data and decide if there was something else to chase or if I was done.<\/p>\n

While sitting there, lightning stuck a metal sign not 20 feet in front of my vehicle, and my engine immediately died and would not start.\u00a0 Everything electrical appeared to be working, but it wouldn’t crank over.<\/p>\n

Luckily Dennis Sherrod and Steve Miller TX were nearby and came to my rescue.\u00a0 A local guy ended up dragging me down the local GM dealership where I abandon my chase vehicle since they won’t be open until Tuesday with the holiday weekend.\u00a0 This is quite depressing, as now I have to find a way back to northern OK to pick it up.<\/p>\n

So I will be chasing with Steve Miller TX the next couple of days.\u00a0 I am hoping it’s nothing too serious or expensive with the chase vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This day was a mixed bag of great chase success and massive fail.\u00a0 Managed to catch at least 3 tornadoes and yet a couple more MASSIVE rapidly rotating wall clouds.\u00a0 That was the good part. While shooting that last tornado above along I35, I was struck by lightning and thrown to the ground.\u00a0 I don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-storm-chasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}