Posted 6:53 PM by Amos Magliocco

Does this thing still work? It's early Fall and the hurricane season has been very active. My friends at Weathervine.com have intercepted three hurricanes, Charley, Frances, and Ivan in the last several weeks, and they expect another hurricane or two in the near future, with Jeanne approaching the east coast and a new tropical wave in the Caribbean.

My stormchasing is probably over for 2004. I'm fully engaged with revising my novel and sending out short stories to various literary magazines. Any chase trip to the plains is a three day proposition from Indiana and I don't have that much time. Hopefully some two-day chase opportunity late this month or in October will come along and offer some tornado prospects. But I'm more or less shut down for the year.