Well only 5 days to go and I will be on a plane over to the United States to start what will be an adventure of a lifetime (I know it definately won’t be the last time) chasing storms and hopefully seeing some great picturesque Tornados in the open plains away from civilisation and awful destruction. This trip has been something I have been dreaming about ever since I was around 10 years old (after watching twister I’m sure)when I discovered my great interest for Severe Thunderstorms and ofcourse Tornados. So just thinknig about this and even wriiting this post I can feel my heart rate increase and the blood pumping.

I have had this trip booked now for around 5 months and I have to admit it only became real to me when I had to ring the Red Lion Hotel in Denver to book my first nights accomodation, which I did monday last week. Since then I have just been aching for the days to go past as quick as they possibly can. Once I am over in Denver I will be meeting up with the Crew of the Silver Lining Tours Group and we will commence our chasing on 12 June, possibly even the 11th weather pending.

During the duration of this trip I will hopefully be posting images and video to this site of the severe weather events we have come accross. I will be doing so through the ‘USA Stormchase 2011′ tab in this website. If I do not come accross Wi-Fi access while staying in the motels at night then I will have to wait to I’m back in Australia and rested befroe I start sorting through the Gigabytes of images and video before I start to post them up on this site.

Here is hoping I can get some great footage that captures the true chaos and beauty that mother nature has to offer us.

Signing off, but not for long,
Troy Barrett

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