If there was one video in the history of storm chasing used to define it, it would be this one. Literally chasing / running along with this twister in Manitoba Canada. This tornado was rated EF3 and occurred on June 28, 2026.

Seals in Provincetown, MA are working the Nor’easter swells off Cape Cod. Must be a buffet down there. Conditions really start to deteriorate tonight on Cape Cod.

Cape Cod Bay in Provincetown, MA is a parking lot for boats ahead of the Nor’Easter this weekend. Likely will be a weekend of no power on Cape Cod.

Check out this beautiful sunset this evening over Cape Cod Bay from Wellfleet, MA ahead of the big Nor’easter. Big storm this weekend for the east coast.

Big Nor’easter brewing with big swells and strong easterlies on Cape Cod already. Expect an impactful storm with flooding and power outages this weekend from Carolina to New England. @accuweather

Got some vinyl today. Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman.

Acquired these two beauties and a stack of 90s basketball inserts today on the Manitoba prairie. @CardPurchaser

On 9/11/2001 I was walking home from my first morning class of the day at Purdue University in Indiana. I was listening to music on my iPod, oblivious to what was happening , and remember looking up at the sky and thinking about how blue and cloudless it was. Soon after I got home to my apartment the landline phone rang. It was my sister and she told me to turn the TV on because a plane had crashed into the WTC. Then we all saw the second plane hit the other tower. When the towers fell LIVE on TV it was the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen. I remember thinking 30,000 people must’ve died. Hearing about the Pentagon attack made things even scarier. A full on attack on the country. And my brother also works in D.C. Some of roommate’s and neighbors were in a panic, and we all made a rush to get gas in our cars before there was a shortage or gas prices exploded. One of my neighbors said a name that I had never heard of before, and that he was likely the mastermind - Osama Bin Laden. The world changed dramatically that day but despite living in a pre-911 world, the one thing I never experienced before 911 was air travel. I didn’t get on my first airplane until 2002.

Beautiful day for golf

Pretty early afternoon in Boissevain, MB with a persistent line of subsevere storms parked over Bottineau to our south. Nearly in the sun now with mammatus overhead.

The summer is not letting go here on the prairie. More storms overnight in southwestern Manitoba brought torrential rains, booming thunder and lightning, and waking residents. And that severe pattern will continue into Sunday and Monday. With more severe storms including tornadoes being possible. Stay tuned!

My baby Joshua Trees are almost 4 years old now. I purchased the seeds for them at Joshua Tree National Park while chasing Tropical Storm Kay. They have been a pretty easy tree to grow because they can handle drought very well. I hardly water them at all through the winter. I will attempt to grow them as bonsai over the coming years.

This Ficus Religiosa (Bodhi tree) bonsai stands about 18” tall. I started it from a young cutting acquired from someone in Winnipeg during the COVID-plant boom. It was a stick with a few leaves. 6 years later after multiple hard prunings and repots, it is really starting to take on a beautiful natural tree shape and nice flowing branch structure and canopy. Next step in its journey is to reduce the leaf size further helping give it an even more miniature look and feel. Trying to remember what I did to it this spring; I believe I did a repot and the last major root operation. When I got it, it had a gnarly root system that I’ve been working on, as in bonsai you want a nice flowing root structure to ensure you get a nice “nebari”, or a nice flaring and flowing trunk where it meets the soil and its surface root system.

Big time waterfowl migration event underway in southern Manitoba Canada. With these warm temps and plenty of flooded fields these guys won’t be heading south anytime soon, but they’ve begun to gather and eat for the annual trip south.

That outflow is charging through the Danger Zone rapidly so we are playing Super Mario Bros arcade game instead. And being made to feel old. A 13 year old walked up to it, couldn’t figure out how to play, and asked me “How do you work this thing?” … “You have to put quarters in it son”

Stuuuu! Looking forward to watching Stuart Skinner as a @NHLJets this season!!

Wow!