Greetings from IMAX Filmmaker Sean Casey!

I'm licking my wounds from a this last chase season, and it's going to take a good amount of licking.

I'm in the process of fixing TIV2 with a fellow who builds class one vehicles for the Baja 1000.  We are also going to be building a TIV3. Yeah, I know, just when you thought the world didn't need another TIV.
I'd put a picture up of TIV3 but it's top secret right now,  I don't know why it's "top secret", but it sounds good.  TOP SECRET! Sounds like we know more than we actually do.  Guess that's why the Government has so many top secret programs.

Also trying to get funding for the Imax film. It's hard for me to ask "Hi. I need a million dollars, can I have it and give you 20% of an Imax film?" I want  to be finished in a year from now and then start a tornado
intercept tour company. Maybe I should auction a seat in the TIVs for next year on Ebay.  But then we'd have to deal with a client and I don't know think our SOP is in line with someone who is adverse to peeing in a water bottle.  And that client is probable going to be older and have some money, with my luck it'll be John McCain.  He'll get excited and have a heart attack and then we'll be faced with the question, "Do we stop the chase?"  The answer will be "no" and then we'll have some explaining to do a week latter when we drop off our client at the local morgue. Maybe we'll just sell TIV t-shirts

Besides all that, getting a little tired of Los Angeles, time I think to move a bit north...have gone on three fishing trips since chasing.  Caught 5 Yellow Tail, 4 Yellow Fin Tuna, and an assortment of Skip Jack, Sierra, Cabrillo, and Trigger fish.

I'm making fish tonight for friends and hoping I don't poison anyone.

Besides all that, I'm raising my beautiful family and trying to figure out what is eating all of my tomatoes.

Sean Casey

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Sean is making appearance on Extra today (Thursday!) and will be on a few other programs like Insider so keep a look out!

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Remember, Storm Chasers at 10pm on Discovery Channel this Sunday!
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Comments

[Josh]

Hey sean you are a loser and an idiot. I genuinely hope you die in a fire, not a tornado.

[William Gaede Sr]

Dear sean I saw the last two seasons of your tivs I was wondering if you thought of making a new tive out of an old electrick truck that is four wheel drive some of the trucks they have have tandums similar to tive two only four wheel drive strip the truck down leave the drive train intact and rebuild the new tive around the frame giving you that extra edge to go on dirt roads down in the texas area maybe even have the sides livt up to give wheel clearence for the muddy roads I shure would like to give you a scetch of what im talking about in person then i can explain what im talking about sincerly wild willie of sumner iowa

[William Gaede Sr]

Dear Sean Casey I watched your last two seasons of storm chasers. I have an idea of a new tiv making tiv 3. It would give you that extra edge that you are looking for an all wheel drive tiv make it high enough for clearence to go over dirt roads and swamp land. Buy an elecrtic boom truck with a deasel engine strip the body down. Rebuild your tiv body around the drive train and chasie.I have seen trucks with tandums like the tiv 2. Only with the stear wheels driving as well, giving you that extra edge you need to go on the back roads of texas giving you that extra edge for pastures and other feilds yes an off road tiv. I shure would like to show you a schetch of what im talking about if your intrested. It would even get red necks watching your show just to see the new tiv and yes Im a red neck to. This tiv 3 would have enough horsepower and speed to get you in that spot that you might miss with out it getting that dabree shot that you want sincerly wild willie from Sumner Iowa

[Amber]

Sean the scene of the tiv driving into oncoming traffic on a highway needs to be removed from the air. We have stormchasers around our sandroads in Central Kansas and I would like to think that I am safer because of what they do--however I would not move for an arrogant driver disrespecting the safety of everyone else and I would follow you with the police on my cell phone until you were pulled over---please do not ruin your shot by poor judgement--next time take the ditch.

[teg]

sean is hot!

[EricaLyn81]

I am eagerly awaiting the completion of the Imax film! It has been a life long dream to be in proximity of a tornado, and your project will simulate that experience! Kudos for your courage and perseverance! I am somewhat disillusioned with some of your colleagues in the scientific commmunity. It is unfortunate that the public often views scientists as pretentious and callous, and when professional individuals take themselves and their importance too seriously it only reinforces that belief in the public! The aim of studying tornados is to save and protect lives...of both people and animals.

[Carol Stanium]

Hi Sean,

My 9 year old son is a HUGE fan of yours. He dreams of chasing when he is an adult. He is facinated by weather and watches weather stations like most children watch cartoons.

He recently started his "Christmas wish list" and the #1 gift he wants is an autograph picture of you. I writing today in hopes that you can help me fill his wish this year.

Please write back and let me know if this is possible.

Carol

P.S. We were happy to see tiv2 back on the road today.

[sharmila]

What happened to that cute little pup that was rescued (looked like a pointer/blue heeler mix---the stray)? Does he/she need a good home?

[Steven Fischer]

Hi Sean I always wanted to be a stormchaser I am 7 years
old I love tornados they are beautiful. I will give you my grandmothers email. Steven

[nick costa]

Hey Sean, I get a real charge out of the show, and completely envy you and your passion for photography/ Stormchasing....I get it. I had a " twisted " thought though, maybe after T3 is rolling, you should leave T1 in a trailer park somewhere in western Arkansas with a remote control camera facing west. Odds are.... from your unknown buddy Nick, in Rhode Island!

[Rich]

Reed Timmer is a better chaser than Sean and his whole team will ever be. Sean whines and cries then chickens out of true intercepts. Hopefully IMAX will soon realize this and put the camera in the capable and proven hands of Timmer and TVN!! Give it up Sean and go home, let the real men get the shot.