Update from TIV leader Sean Casey!

Just checking in...I'll be adding to Byron's awesome blog from time to time. Heath Woods is stomping out the last of TIV2's bugs this week so we are ready for action this coming week. If it wasn't for Heath we'd be still stuck in Deertrail, CO. We are also bringing out the original TIV as a back-up. We can't afford to miss anything this year. Thanks Rav, my first love was an Australian girl. I was 11, she was 12, we met on the Barrier reef and her family invited my family to their home in Perth. I can still remember her name. Jenny Walters, Her dad was an artist. And thanks goes out to the Woodward Fire Dept. Thanks for taking us in!



Sean Casey

Comments

[Roy Wichkan]

Hi Sean

Sorry to read about your first kiss, we all have one, and when your that age love really does hurt man !..
Anywho .. Taking a huge sidestep from that, I'm writing to you for the first time, you don't know me and have never met me face to face. I live in the U.K and have followed your programme "Storm Chasers" on the Discovery channel. ( which is a HUGE SUCCESS over here by the way !) and I've been a FAN of the awesome and most majestic power the earth presents to us with these Tornado's and lightning phenomenon.
I have been blessed only once to actually SEE a Tornado for real LIVE and it was when I lived in Alabama for about 2 years back in 2002.. It was in a small town called Rosalea on Sand Mountain just out from the City of Scottsboro.
I lived in a trailer there next to a farmers field, it was a warm sunny day with no clouds in the sky.. My landlord who was also a Well Driller ( mr Jimmy Peake ) came by and picked me up to ride out and do a job with him. We started out and he noticed the hay in the field was whipping up, so he stopped the truck and jumped out and then I saw it and it started to grow wider out there in the field, this invisible mass, un-noticeable if the field hadn't been cut the day before, was swirling the grass up into the air and Jimmy was running towards it like it was God inviting him into heaven.. He then turned around and invited me over to it, reluctant at first, I decided to move toward it as it slowly twisted across the field. It grew only to about 20 feet as seen, or at least that was the sucking power for it, but we both managed to stand inside it as it passed and when I was in the centre of it I noticed a calmness and I could also feel heat rising from the ground.. I write to you with this to share something special I had in return for the awesome pictures you have already taken and the risks you and your crew have taken to make the films you have made, no matter how successful your Storm Chasing has been.
I watched the episode you did were you tried to get inside a tornado and film inside it from the TIV, that was great.. and not to pour salt on an already septic wound but I also saw how you missed the BIG ONE (F5). Now I know that hurt.
I also know if you had been there you might not be here now if you know what I mean. Well I'm glad you are here and able to read this blog, anyway I've rattled on too much now and I'm signing out, I have some ideas though that I want you to try out with storm chasing, so e-mail me back and I'll tell you what ideas I've got in mind. Peace and Godspeed :)

Roy Wichkan

[Rich]

May 7
I just saw the origional TIV on a flatbed on I27 between Lubbock TX and Amarillo TX.
I'll keep an eye out for the TIV2. I can't wait to see it.

[Duston Jackson]

hello been trying to keep up with the tiv 2 ,noticed you have been having alot of prob. with the under carrage I work in the oil field and noticed you are using to light duty of parts, I know you have an awsome mech. but would like to help get some of the bugs out if I can . I build some of the things I need and most of it has to be extreme duty because some of these guys could destroy anything. good luck with the chase.

DUSTON
Guy,AR.

[Forrest Lambert]

hey sean got a question for ya? ive noticed on the show when the NWS sends out a warning u can hear it from the outside of the DOW, is there a weather radio with a loudspeaker hooked up to it or is it from the camara with the sound guy inside of the truck? please email me at the email addy that i gave you. thanks bud

[Charlos]

on the tiv three u should use air ride so u can drop on intercept and still have 6 inchs of clearence running down the road then put a rubber gasket on the bottom to seal it off and use all heavy grade stuff so u dont have failers i would recomend usin a semi fame on this on if you can talk to me a bout iv my email is charlostimmermann@yahoo.com

[wayhudson]

Sean-
You really don't need the TIV. Watch the movie twister and you will see that Doge Truck are tornado proven. Just jokeing woluyd give anything to work on the TIV.
Wayne

[jessica]

sean can i come with u guys next spring? i love the show and i am in to storm chasing i get excited watching the show. then i missed the last episode and i cried. i want to chase with u sean it would be so cool. how much does it cost? i love the show and really would like to meet ur hole team in real life unstead on the tv. i love u guys

jessica

[Bubba Wilson]

Hi Sean,
My name is Bubba Wilson. I am a huge fan of your show! Everyone at school knows me as the storm chaser. I love weather! Its my passion and calling.
So, I was sitting at home one night and thought of something. In may, we have our prom. Well, I was wondering if you would be willing to escort my date and I to the dance, in the Tiv. I think I am the only guy at our school who has not seen the tiv in real life. Last march, a bunch of our guys from Belle Plaine KS were in hays, when they saw the tiv during a baseball tournament! And they immediatley called me and told me.
It's just an idea, but this would be the greatest life expierience ever! Thank you so much, and I hope to hear from you.

Bubba Wilson

[Michael S]

Sean,

just wondering if you will run with vortex2 in 2009/10, I noticed the Doppler on wheels truck with Dr. Wurman would be, or at least on a list of advisors at this point. Keep up the good work, love the show and Severe Weather of all kinds will always be my passion. Look me up when around manhattan, junction city kansas.

[Ben M]

Hi Sean-
I am 6 years old and an aspriring stormchaser. I love your videos. When will you be chasing in 2009? I would like to meet you and see the TIV.
A big fan,
Ben