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It's spring, and time again for the Travis Meyer Drinking Game.

THE TRAVIS MEYER DRINKING GAME

Pregame

1. Everyone selects a storm chaser other than Von Caster. Every time Travis talks to your storm chaser, you take one drink. Take two drinks every time we see footage from your storm chaser. Take four drinks if your storm chaser says "tornado on the ground."

2. Everyone selects a county other than Pottawatomie County. (Pottawatomie County is much the same as Free Space in Bingo.) Every time Travis mentions your county, you take one drink. Take two drinks every time we see footage from your county. Take four drinks if a tornado touches down in your county.

One drink
1. Take one drink every time Travis says the following:
"Hook echo" | "Updraft" | "Metro" | "Doppler radar" | "Wall cloud" | "Rain Wrapped" | "Underground" | "Mobile home"

2. When Travis gives a list of counties, take one drink for every county in the list.

3. Take one drink every time Travis interrupts a program. Take one drink if Travis says "You're not missing any of [program name]." Take one drink when Travis says "We'll keep you advised."

Two drinks
1. Take two drinks every time Travis says the following:
"Baseball-sized hail" | "Keystone" | "Pottawatomie County" | "Pawnee High School"

2. Take two drinks every time Travis mentions the following towns:
Altus | Burns Flat | Pryor | Gotebo | Hydro | Lookeba | Okemah | Mulhall | Oktaha | Olustee | Shattuck | Slaughterville | Tryon | Vici | Waukomis | Wayne (or Payne) | Weleetka | Wetumkah

3. Take two drinks every time Travis talks to Von Caster.

Three drinks
1. Take three drinks if we see footage from Von Caster.

2. Take three drinks if we see footage from Pottawatomie County.

3. Take three drinks if Travis mentions the following:

"Immediate tornado precautions" | "National Weather Service" | "Mesocyclone" | "Portable Radio" | "Take shelter" | "Tornado warning in effect until …"

Four drinks
1. Take four drinks if Sky News 6 must land to refuel.

2. Take four drinks if Travis issues his own tornado warning, not recognized by the NWS or says the following:
"Will someone please answer that phone?" | "Do you see power flashes?"

3. Take four drinks if a shirt-less tornado victim is interviewed.

Finish your drink
1. Finish your drink if someone uses the word tornado as a verb or if Travis mentions the nearest cross streets to you.

2. If Travis says "We've lost Von," pour a little out for your homies and finish your drink.

Ahh, and don’t forget: Four drinks for “Well about the time them sireeeens started going off...”

Or any other victim commentator who further drives home the point of what uneducated hicks we are to the rest of the country.

Premature convection guys.  The big stuff won't happen until tomorrow night.  At least near Tulsa.

That's great, Gas!  I couldn't help myself and posted it to my facebook.  Copyright infringement, I know.

BTW, Check out the Drought maps at the NOAA website.  We are no longer under a drought.

"Has anyone seen Von Caster?"

One of my favorite meteorologist and chaser exchanges was the 1993 tornado which took out Bruce’s Truck Stop.

The late Jim Giles had a chaser right at 161st St.  For sake of my lost memory, let’s call him “Don”.

“Uh Don, that storm should be right over you about now”
*dead silence*
“Uh Don, hello Don!?!?”
*more dead silence*

The panic in Giles’ voice was palpable.  As I recall the chaser checked in later, just fine.  That was also the event where I first heard: “Well I heard them siiireeens going off..."

There are two things I would add.  1) add the town Slick 2) if the words "It sounded like a freight train!" are uttered my a man (or woman) with either a)more than one visable tooth missing or b)wearing an officall peice of nascar merchandise, take five drinks.

Wow, SPC has a high risk in the day 2 forecast. That's somewhat unusual.

only the second time it's happened for a day 2 run.

Hmm, for some reason I thought it had happened at least 3-4 times previously, although I only specifically remember one.

The big outbreak in 2006 in and around TN is the last time they did that.

After reading the rules, I swear my liver punched my kidneys and said 'FUGGGETT ABOUT IT!'

At one time that was the Jon Slater drinking game, and I cant remember how much "back door cold front" was worth.
Castor is at 23 now, but I think the universal rule of storm chasers is that they forget they are recording audio along with their storm video.

Dont drive around in this:

http://www.newson6.com/global/category.asp?C=121535&topVideoCatNo=188832&autostart=true&clipid=7053621

There's probably a good reason the audio was removed...

Please procure adequate supplies to play tonight.

Slater is on Fox in OKC.  I expect to get to see him later on TV.

Rockstar Gas.  Simply awesome.

Storms on the way.  Found some good storm chasin' music....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4xNTBL0EY&feature=related

Was Travis Myer actually drinking last night? Seemed like anything that could go wrong did and he seemed a little out of it during all his reports...strange...

No, he didn’t get his big storm event but he’d already spent the money on overtime so he was winging it.  Pretty pathetic 15 minutes of 50 MPH winds and nickel sized hail.  Cut in over Robin Williams even.

We noticed the other locals didn’t pay it that much time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tVEPvXBEOSE[/youtube]

Priceless.

I saw that on the CBS news the other morning.  "Godzilla will deflect it!"

Prepare yourselves.
ERMERGRD HRNKER DERN!

It's going to be tough to stay sober at work today.

Spring time? We're in the dead of winter. Brrrr!

Nope.  It's spring again. 

Reviewed the video link above, and it is still appropriate - ready to chase some storms!!

Heard him saying "I've got electrical flashes, electrical flashes, I've got electrical flashes" like a storm chaser version of Rain Man.