Monday, May 30, 2016

Post date: May 30, 2016 6:49:23 PM

Monday, May 30, 2016 @ 1430 EDT: Home again, and a nice long night of sleep... followed by several long naps... which will likely be followed by several more! Man, these last four weeks have really worn me down, but it was TOTALLY worth it!

So just to catch you all up, my flight out of OKC left late yesterday, which shortened my layover in Houston and made it impossible for me to get my final meal at Pappadeaux. *sigh* Oh well. It would have been nice, but I improvised and found a nice quick alternative delicacy along the way. During our approach to the Houston airport, though, I was taken by the flooding there that we could see from the air! I had no idea of the extent of that flooding!

Then I boarded the flight to Fort Lauderdale and, as always, had my window seat for a good view of everything. I was a bit cramped, as usual, with long legs and typically much-too-little leg room on the flights, but additionally due to a really fat old lady in the center seat. She "overflowed" her space quite a bit, and her fat arm on the armrest was constantly changing the channel and volume on my TV. Towards the end of the flight, she was just turning my TV on and off repeatedly! I just tried to ignore it and used my time to grab some shots out of the window... which worked out well when we were approaching Fort Lauderdale and we had to divert around a localized storm cell. Not too bad as a finale to my month of storm chasing!

So now I'm home and counting down the days until the next storm chase! And what is the count? That would be 342 days, to be exact!

You can see a few iPod Touch shots from the journey home HERE: https://kingkey.smugmug.com/TornadoChase/Chase-2016/2016May29/