Weather Going WILD

- For anybody new to this page, my name is Michael and I have been chasing mother nature’s worst weather for over 20 years now…

- I fell in love with the destructive forces of nature at a very young age. After Hurricane Gloria made landfall over my childhood home on Long Island late in September of 1985 I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life! I had just turned 7 years old but I

can still remember that day like it was yesterday... I remember my whole family huddling in the basement together as the storm approached during the early morning hours. The winds picking up steadily throughout the day, the sounds of tree limbs breaking and debris crashing against the windows, and the warnings popping up on the bottom of the tv screen all day until the power finally went out all together…
- But the memory that sticks with me the most is after my father and I went upstairs during the height of the storm, looking out the bay windows of our living room and seeing the back yard completely covered with all types of debris from downed trees to sections of neighbors roofs!! Then, in the blink of an eye, COMPLETE CALM!!! It was like somebody flipped a switch and turned the storm off! My father and I went out in to the backyard and you could actually see the clouds just Disappear. It was like something right out of the movies! The sun came pouring through, the sky turned Bright Blue, and the air was Crystal Clear! We walked around checking out the damage for about a half hour or so admiring the stadium effect of the clouds inside the eye of the hurricane, and then all of a sudden we could see this dark wall of clouds approaching very quickly from the south…. We ran back in to the house and just as fast as the storm dissipated it had returned! We went back in to the basement with my mother, my brother, and two sisters where we waited out the rest of the storm. When we finally came back upstairs I was absolutely amazed by the amount of devastation we observed…
It is a memory that I will carry with me for the rest of my life…
So naturally 35 years later I travel all across this great country of ours in search of similar events…

- I just want to thank all of you for your continued support… It means more to me than you know.....