what st. peter, mn, on 29 March 1998 at 5:38pm was like, only much worse.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/weather/0305/slideshow.tornado.0505/frameset.exclude.html
fifth image in the gallery. except that i was closer. the lighting was exactly the same. the shape of the vortex was the same. the urgency in that person’s voice was the same as mine, except that i was screaming, “oh my gwad, i’m going to die and i’m never gonna see my cat again.”
but i was much closer. much, much closer. like, see those trees in the background? they would have been inside the limits of the outer vortex in relation to me.
being a storm chaser in the Puget Sound is tantamount to being a hurricane storm tracker in Iqaluit, Nunavut.