You're a "Spotter"? Cool!!

You have to get up on a ridge somewhere to spot any weather coming around here. There are a few places around I've stopped and sat and watched big storms from. Never seen any twisters yet though.

I listen to NOAA radio on my walkie-talkie all the time when I'm on our boat, and I have one in my bedroom with S.A.M.E. and an alarm on it. These storms we've had around here lately are pretty scary. Joplin was really scary.

I admire all you spotters. Really. They were tracking that Joplin storm from Oklahoma before it hit Joplin, through Joplin, then south of Springfield to past Taneyville with eye witness reports the entire time. It's hard to imagine how many more people might have been hurt if the spotters hadn't been out there. I was hunkered down in a basement that evening listening to their reports.