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Storm Chasing – An art journal page
Posted on October 30, 2011 by Gulfsprite in Art Journals, Blog
Watching reruns of storm chasers and musing about how devastating tornadoes seem to me. Being from South Florida I have never experienced a tornado. Hurricanes generally give us many days of advanced notice and we can prepare.
Living in a tornado prone region you must (I imagine) be prepared all of the time.The warnings are at best a few minutes out and those are only the obvious storms.
So many of them are not obvious, instead they are sudden and deadly hidden in rain wrapped storms you can not penetrate without doppler radar.
The flowers remind me a bit of the radar images I was seeing of the storms the chasers were looking at.
We don’t generally prepare to hunker down in the face of the really monstrous hurricanes. We run. Simple as that. But tornadoes happen through entire weeks or months with daily watches and warnings. I can’t imagine how stressful that must be.
And thinking about all of that, I paint flowers. It is as if subconsciously I am trying to be in a happy place in direct contrast to what I am watching on the screen.
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this is beautiful……my favorite colors…such calming colors to me …and you are talking of storms…..lol……..i used to live in ft lauderdale so i know hurricanes……we live in the nc mountains now and don’t experience tornados like they do in the ‘flat lands”……………..
LOVE those flowers – and I’m not usually a floral kinda gal. They are fantastic. And – you are right – they do look like little radar sections – eyes of the storm. Fantastic! As someone who has lived in a tornado region her whole life – yes – you keep an emergency kit packed, yes – there are some sleepless nights staring at the weather channel or pressed up against the weather radio. However, you also start to get a sense for the “feeling” and “smell” of it. I have been in 2 tornadoes in my life (none with grave damage to my home or loved ones thank God) but you don’t forget the sensations.