Killer pictures that are making me go crazy

Every morning I open my email. There with the usual assortment of spam I can almost count on receiving THE PICTURES. What you ask are THE PICTURES?

They are a gorgeous selection of wall Clouds tornadoes and gust fronts.

All shot by some storm chaser over the last few years. Out in the plains, probably. I'd love to show them on air, BUT, we only show pictures taken by the party that sends them. Unless we can get an ok from whoever took it.

The problem is that I get these from people saying their buddy at work took them, or a friend in Texas took it on a recent trip. The latest was from Kansas. Now, many folks have also sent them to me just to make sure I have seen them, and I do appreciate that.. they are incredible. But, to set the record straight, they were taken by a good storm chaser who owns the rights to them (If I were him, I'd charge a pretty penny for those rights too!)

Amazing how these things get started on the net. There is another series of pictures taken by a crewman on an ore freighter up in the Great Lakes of a beautiful shelf cloud. Every time there is a hurricane in the Atlantic, I get a dozen copies of it... purported to be the hurricane in question taken by a ship that barely made it through...

I suspect that those who read this blog are not likely to fall for these things (you have to be a fellow nerd to read these things right?), and I am probably guilty of it myself! Still, at least I got it off my chest!