Even Lower than the Higher Low

 

December 21, 2023

Tonight, I cannot hear the saints or the angels singing.  Not even negligibly.  And, as I should have blogged a couple of weeks ago during a similar event to which tornadoes seemed subsequently to appear in the mid-eastern portion of the Heartland, I make this brief blog entry about it all now.  

Potentially of more specific interest than the current lack of any singing to be heard, at this time, two significant weather systems seem stacked longitudinally on top of one another, here out-west.    Of course, local events always seemed to have effect on the issue – albeit as yet unquantifiable. 

However and consequently, the next few days could prove to be of interest to my still unrebuked model to predict the appearance tornadoes appearing in the Nation’s Heartland. 

Adam Trotter, P.E.  

 

See:

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ca/long-beach/KLGB

and,

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/wa/seattle/KSEA

 

New Oddities in the Old Regular

 

While at my old regular or preferred listening spot, I have been hearing odd combinations that I don’t remember hearing there in the past.  One combination heard Friday evening (SD low end concurrently with SB middle) has been known to be of interest when such was heard at another more current and typical listening spot.  (See, for instance: “Still Odd Again and Revelations”, located at: https://tornadotamer.blogspot.com/2019/05/still-odd-again-and-reveleations.html )  

However, the new odd combination heard on Saturday evening at the historically regular location has SD heard on the low end with absolutely nothing across the middle – at a location where one would expect to also hear SD.  At this point, I don’t know the significance of it all, if any.

AVT, Early AM Sunday morning, Nov. 13, 2022.

 

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ca/long-beach/KLGB/date/2022-11-12

Pick-Up Truck in a Tornado, or, Tornado in a Pick-up Truck – Tornado Research.

 

From Texas, a video emerges of a pick-up truck caught in the middle of a tornado.  See:  ‘Truck caught in middle of Texas tornado’, located at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf2TlYDeXJ8 .  (Edit: See the non-broken  links below for the video footage.)

Fortunately, the driver not only reportedly walked-away, the driver drove the vehicle away.  Such would surely make a great advertisement for the manufacturer of his pick-up. 

If searched on-line or if one follows a link below, one can learn more of the pick-up truck driver’s story.  Maybe I will try to reach-out to the driver for an interview, at some point in the future.

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For my part, I drive around with a tornado inside of my pick-up truck – even if such is merely in a figurative fashion.  Because, the tornado in my pick-up is a trademark of mine, of sorts – and it is posted on my rear window.  If interested, one can view my common-law mark at: http://adamtrotter.com/ , or equivalently at: http://tornadotamer.org/ .  (Note the wallpaper, the trademark of the website – and the mark of my efforts.)

Worth mentioning, about a week ago, my tornado-prediction model was trying to inspire me to post/blog (http://tornadotamer.blogspot.com/ ) of the likelihood of tornadoes to appear in the Heartland.  Any such predicted appearance might subsequently form as a tornado in the time frame of a couple of days later than the likelihood of such being exhibited/predicted by my model.  The model then could have been predicting the tornadoes which appeared about the time of the pick-up truck video from Texas.

Because, at the time of my observation, no saints could be heard singing nor were The Angels singing either.  Unfortunately, I did not post about the likelihood of those tornadoes, as my time has been otherwise overly preoccupied of late.  (See: http://tornadotamer.blogspot.com/2021/12/model-still-predicting-even-if-not.html .) 

 

On a related note, I have taken some unofficial steps toward doing some official tornado research.  I have teamed-up with a data-base computer expert who believes he can help me catalogue all the predicate/observed conditions of my model for the subsequent appearance of tornadoes in the Heartland.  Such would allow for the ease of searching the data and comparison thereof after tornadoes have formed elsewhere.  A data search which would then be easier to perform than reviewing my random blog entries.  Someday, once a baseline established, we might pursue some grant monies or even some SBIR research funding.  Time will tell.

Adam Trotter (March 2022)

 

 

16-year-old driver tossed in Elgin tornado lucky to be alive

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/elgin-texas-tornado-truck-video-viral/269-a7d87805-d2e9-46c7-b3ab-0aed39ef3863

 

 

Watch: Chevy pickup truck drives away after Texas tornado flips it over

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/watch-chevy-truck-drives-away-after-texas-tornado-flips-it-over-11647968275

 

Tornado-Surviving Chevy Silverado Gives “Like A Rock” New Meaning

https://www.motortrend.com/news/chevrolet-silverado-teenage-driver-tornado-elgin-texas-interviewed/