11 May 2013 – CHASE 2013 – DAY 11
Today is a travel day, as we need to get everybody back to Oklahoma City by morning.
I’m feeling pretty sad about the trip being over. We have a really terrific group on this tour, and I will miss them all very much when we go our separate ways.
We’ve had a very discouraging weather pattern for storms, but Bill Reid had put us on the best ones whenever they were available (that is, days 1, 8-10)
Today’s USA TODAY seems to be rubbing our noses in the fact we saw no tornado in ten days in May:
______ – We stop at Austin for a lunch at Fuddrucker’s
______ – We jump off I-35N at West,TX. We grab a snack at the famed Czech Stop And Wander East into town. We cannot see the blast site from the recent fertilizer plant explosion. We see houses with boarded-up windows and crumpled aluminum garage doors from blast, even from 14 blocks away from the temporary chain link fence protecting the disaster.
19:10 – We cross the Red River on I35N, returning to Oklahoma for the last time during the trip.
