Here is a rare look into the past from 19 years ago. In this photo that has the date stamp on it showing it was taken in July of 1992 which is “4 BT” or four years before the movie Twister came out and made everyone want to be a chaser.
While it is not my greatest work and in the big picture of my photography, this photo is pretty bad.
What is does show is a time line of my chasing and interest in weather. Back in 1992 when everyone I knew saw that I was into chasing and weather, they thought it was pretty damn strange. Now chasing is looked at by the general public much like the X-Games on ESPN or other extreme sports.
While chasing has come a long way and has now become part of the everyday pop culture, the weather has not changed but chasing has. Now it is possible that you can find more people chasing after one super cell thunderstorm in the month of May in Kansas this spring than were even called chasers in 1992.