Day 9: Heading Back To OKC

From left to right:

Me, Lloyd, Marie, Steve, Jacquie, Tom, Alister, Roger

Woke up and hit the snooze button. Woke up again and took a shower and went down to breakfast. Biscuits and gravy, a good Plains breakfast. It was snowing outside. We all met at 10 and got the van packed up in a brisk and bitter cold wind. We headed east on I-80 and then dropped south. We drove and drove and drove, stopping for a lunch buffet at Pizza Hut just inside the Kansas border. We stopped in Blackwell, OK so Roger could pick up replacement sensors from a storm spotter friend of his. He drove a rather uniquely decked out Nissan Sentra with gear on the top and a custom instrument package mounted where the front passenger seat would ordinarily be. We got in to our hotel in Oklahoma City at 6:15. I made some phone calls. We met back at the lobby at 7 and went to the Cimmaron Steakhouse, where we celebrated the tour's great storms. The rest of the crew treated Roger and Alister, and they treated me as well because of how long it took before I got my first tornado. My goal is now to see one form and live its whole cycle. I will probably do the Canadian Prairies Tour next summer.

We went to Walmart and then back to the hotel. We meet for departure at 8:30 in the morning...for what ,may be a significant chase day.