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Fent's Post Productions LLC One man. One film. Many stories. And tornadoes. We used to have 3 channels on television, and one played a cowbell whenever there was a storm watch or warning.

Tornadoes Through Time
FENT'S POST PRODUCTIONS LLC·THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018·
In my lifetime, storm prediction has come a very long way. The storm could have been anywhere within a hundred miles. Radar wasn’t very advanced and the only chasers were media or law enforcement personnel. It was thought that the low pressure inside a tornado caused houses to explode and people were told to open their wi

ndows before taking shelter in a basement corner. More often than now, tornadoes caught people without any warning at all. Over time, storms have been dissected and many causes revealed as to what makes tornadoes. Rotation is detected before a funnel forms. Debris balls show up on highly sophisticated radar. Warnings are only for the portions of counties in a storm path. We know that tornadoes don’t create enough vacuum to explode a house, but simply blow it to bits. Underground is still the safe place but we are to seek the innermost room, not a corner. “Chasers” surround storms by the dozens, though the level of expertise varies from trained meteorologists to kids in pickup trucks who have no idea what to look for and look out for under these monstrous, spinning thunderstorms that sweep across the great plains. Fent’s Post Productions is producing a film about an unusually potent batch of storms that made history in north-central Kansas. As producer, director and photographer, I also bring a lifetime of experience as a cameraman, feature writer and storm student to this project. My various assistants and I have researched, traveled and trained all over the state and coast to coast to interview those involved in this disaster. I continue to ride with veteran storm chasers to capture these awesome, timeless storms on camera. In production since 2009, the film’s final interviews will be completed soon and post production is starting. I have personally given everything I’ve been able to give to this project. It has been by turns tedious, exhilarating, exasperating, exhausting, rewarding, scary, bizarre, beautiful, bewildering, educational and always expensive. As citizens, many things have improved for us since 1973. However, so many issues of that year - that decade- remain much as they were. Rhetorical questions continue to be political footballs. Media entities often act on profit rather than on what is true. Divisions among us have widened as these dynamic forces rip and tear at the very foundations of who we are. Yet there is a creative force which continually emerges from the human spirit, and we see time and again how our shared struggles bring out the best in us. This is at the core of this story. This is the source of hope that drives me to complete this film and share it with you. If you want to help out, I’ll also share the credit with you. This is much more than another tornado film. Tornadoes come and go. What endures is the way that we treat each other when the heavy sky descends. We often act out of fear, but we ultimately want the same things for our families, friends and neighbors. Sometimes we have to watch these storms from a different vantage point to understand what is at stake. Sometimes we can’t see the storm for the clouds.
- Ron Fent

11/07/2025

Hotter water stirring up more trouble in the Pacific this week.
Thank you, nature! May we have another?

This is real. Typhoon Kalmaegi ripped through the Philippines and Vietnam this week, not long after Melissa smashed part...
11/07/2025

This is real. Typhoon Kalmaegi ripped through the Philippines and Vietnam this week, not long after Melissa smashed parts of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and the Bahama islands. While the US had a quiet hurricane season, tornadoes were bad and future seasons will be worse and worse for all extreme weather across the globe. Texas had the extreme flooding on July 4th, Alaska got hit hard by remnants of Typhoon Halong October 12th, and Ireland was hit with the remnants of Melissa this week. Here in central Kansas, bizarre summer flooding created a massive log jam which is still being cleaned from the Smoky Hill river. Nature does not kneel. The intersectional phenomenon of climate plurality ensures the collapse of civilization. Nature does not kneel—it will not obey human-made law—and the laws of physics are brutally honest. Humans are out to destroy all life on earth and it seems nothing will stop this insanity.
Be warned, be ready and try anyway. Hopefully, we can at least get the best among us to develop mitigation plans for the disasters dealt by the coming storms.

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11/05/2025

A quarter mile of rock and log road has swallowed up The River Sticks logjam, as seen today. Now, to start picking it all up again...

Despite the AI-generated thumbnail and rough editing, this is a good report on the Jamaican hurricane experience.
10/29/2025

Despite the AI-generated thumbnail and rough editing, this is a good report on the Jamaican hurricane experience.

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Best of luck to the residents of Guantanamo prison today! Cat 2.
10/29/2025

Best of luck to the residents of Guantanamo prison today! Cat 2.

Glad it is finally going to freeze up! The fleas around here have been awful for many with the very wet conditions. Been...
10/29/2025

Glad it is finally going to freeze up! The fleas around here have been awful for many with the very wet conditions. Been a real battle for we animal stewards.
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Wichita KS
153 AM CDT Wed Oct 29 2025
Saline-McPherson-Marion-Chase-Reno-Harvey-Butler-Kingman-Sedgwick-Harper-Sumner-Cowley-Including the cities of Park City, Wellington, Rose Hill, Marion, Cottonwood Falls, Harper, Strong City, Attica, Salina, Haysville, Hutchinson, El Dorado, Augusta, Peabody, Derby, Winfield, McPherson, Bel Aire, Newton, Wichita, Arkansas City, Valley Center, Anthony, Hillsboro, Andover, and Kingman
153 AM CDT Wed Oct 29 2025..WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON.....FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...For the Wind Advisory, north winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31
* WHERE...Portions of Central and South Central Kansas.
* WHEN...For the Wind Advisory, until 1 PM CDT this afternoon. For
the Freeze Watch, from late tonight through Thursday morning.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive
vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution. Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.

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In Martin’s view, the military’s primary incentive is to maintain an American-dominated global economic system built on the extraction and disproportionate consumption of natural resources. Climate change is a concern for the military, perhaps, but solving climate change would almost certainly mean toppling that system — which is perhaps why many leaders of powerful nations like the United States seem less interested in solving the climate crisis than in setting themselves up to dominate a heating and increasingly unlivable planet."

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Melissa losing the eye wall over Jamaica mid-day. Still a cat 5, though, with winds of 160 mph sustained!

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A wet year continues! On Monday, a truck was bringing in more boulders to keep building the road, but no other work was happening. Today, as the cat-5 Melissa is hitting Jamaica, the US atmosphere is stalled out until the storm moves northeast.
Pictured is the wood left to compact and remove when they finally begin to remove River Sticks Road. They will truck it all to the wastewater management area northeast of town to be burned. Now, I'd say it will take at least another month to finish the six-week job! 🌳

10/28/2025
10/28/2025

NHC Storm Description:
28 Oct 2025 - 14:00 UTC ...CATASTROPHIC WINDS MOVING ONSHORE SOUTHERN JAMAICA... ...LAST CHANCE TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE... ...1000 AM EDT POSITION UPDATE... As of 10:00 AM EDT Tue Oct 28 the center of Melissa was located near 17.7, -78.1 with movement NNE at 7 mph. The minimum central pressure was 892 mb with maximum sustained winds of about 185 mph.

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Tornadoes Through Time

In my lifetime, storm prediction has come a very long way. We used to have 3 channels on television, and one played a cowbell whenever there was a storm watch or warning. The storm could have been anywhere within a hundred miles. Radar wasn’t very advanced and the only chasers were media or law enforcement personnel. It was thought that the low pressure inside a tornado caused houses to explode and people were told to open their windows before taking shelter in a basement corner. More often than now, tornadoes caught people without any warning at all.

Over time, storms have been dissected and many causes revealed as to what makes tornadoes. Rotation is detected before a funnel forms. Debris balls show up on highly sophisticated radar. Warnings are only for the portions of counties in a storm path. We know that tornadoes don’t create enough vacuum to explode a house, but simply blow it to bits. Underground is still the safe place but we are to seek the innermost room, not a corner. “Chasers” surround storms by the dozens, though the level of expertise varies from trained meteorologists to kids in pickup trucks who have no idea what to look for and look out for under these monstrous, spinning thunderstorms that sweep across the great plains.

Fent’s Post Productions is producing a film about an unusually potent batch of storms that made history in north-central Kansas. As producer, director and photographer, I also bring a lifetime of experience as a cameraman, feature writer and storm student to this project. My various assistants and I have researched, traveled and trained all over the state and coast to coast to interview those involved in this disaster. I continue to ride with veteran storm chasers to capture these awesome, timeless storms on camera. In production since 2009, the film’s final interviews will be completed soon and post production is starting. I have personally given everything I’ve been able to give to this project. It has been by turns tedious, exhilarating, exasperating, exhausting, rewarding, scary, bizarre, beautiful, bewildering, educational and always expensive.

As citizens, many things have improved for us since 1973. However, so many issues of that year - that decade- remain much as they were. Rhetorical questions continue to be political footballs. Media entities often act on profit rather than on what is true. Divisions among us have widened as these dynamic forces rip and tear at the very foundations of who we are. Yet there is a creative force which continually emerges from the human spirit, and we see time and again how our shared struggles bring out the best in us. This is at the core of this story. This is the source of hope that drives me to complete this film and share it with you. If you want to help out, I’ll also share the credit with you.