We did it! We got our new home! The call came in about a half hour ago! It’s ours!
Our final offer increased to $100 over asking price, but we left in the closing costs (and warranty). The ball was then in their court. We were told to expect a call between 5 and 7 tonight, but by 8:30, we were starting to get doubts. Until the phone rang, that is!
So, barring any meteor strikes between now and then, we’ll be moving into 8321 Hobhouse Circle after June 16th. Woohoo!
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By way of Metafilter comes some amazing footage of tornadoes that touched down May 12th near Attica, Kansas (Note: 27MB MPEG download). Scott McPartland is the photographer.
I’d like to chase storms around here, using all the necessary tools and training from the National Weather Service. We don’t have any storm chasers in the area, though the NWS’s SkyWarn program does train amateur radio operators in storm spotting.
Storm chasers around here will spend most of their time being bored, since this isn’t the tornado hotbed that Kansas-Texas-Oklahoma area is. Still, it’d be thrilling to get my own footage like this.
And, come on! It’s only wind, right? 🙂
Update: I put a local link for the tornado video, via FreeCache.
