A personal question.

LAStorm01 · #341 Postby **LAStorm01** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:31 pm

26, Southeast LA, interested since Gilbert in '88. Physics/Met background, currently medical sales.

wxmann_91 · #342 Postby **wxmann_91** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:42 pm

thunderstruck wrote:I'm 35.Been tracking storms since 1990.

Is it since 1990 or 1992? Because the last time you posted in this topic you said that you have been tracking 13 years.

I'm 35.I started watching hurricanes (hardcore anyway) 13 years ago.

Doc Seminole · #343 Postby **Doc Seminole** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:47 pm

abajan wrote:I haven't read all of the posts in this thread yet but it's seems to me that the average age of S2Kers is much older than what obtains on other message boards.

The majority of members on most boards I know are teenagers. This doesn't seem to be the case here at S2K. Interesting.

I reckon that explains why the moderators have to keep us old taxpayers in line since there are, at times, a tendency for threads to bend towards politics.

Doc Seminole 8-)

Doc Seminole · #344 Postby **Doc Seminole** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:01 pm

hicksta wrote:good god. yall are old

That's awesome dude (or dudette, whichever the case may be). Hey, life is kinda like a cassette tape, when it is at the beginning and you press fast forward, it is slow at first but the longer it forwards, the faster it goes. But then....... you've probably never used a cassette tape. LOL.

AIM HIGH AND MAKE "THE" EFFORT hicksta!!!!!

Doc Seminole 8-)

Storm Chaser · #345 Postby **Storm Chaser** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:19 pm

Life's like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

SamSagnella · #346 Postby **SamSagnella** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:24 pm

19...been interested for as long as I can remember.

#347 Postby **orion** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:40 pm

36 here, been interested in weather since I was young and remember seeing reports come in on my neighbor's teletype (he is a ham radio operator). That persuaded me to get my ham radio license (had it for 13 years now) and also to become a skywarn spotter. Have been tracking hurricanes for 6 years now.

~orion

plazaglass · #348 Postby **plazaglass** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:09 pm

49.5 and into it since Dora in '64. Thought it was cool that we got to cook on Sterno stoves in the driveway for a few days and hold cracked window panes together with masking tape.

Adulthood and owning a home three blocks from the Atlantic Ocean has pretty much killed the cool factor of hurricanes for me!

StormySouthFlorida · #349 Postby **StormySouthFlorida** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:18 pm

31.....been interested since Andrew.

Ixolib · #350 Postby **Ixolib** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:35 pm

wxmann_91 wrote:bump.

Sorry if this wasn't suppose to be bumped, but I think that it goes along with the lat/lon thread.

EDIT: BTW I am 14 now, not 13 anymore. My birthday was last month.

Well, Happy Belated Birthday!! Since you took the time to find this thread, I'll make the effort to update the combined list in the next few days - after a few more posters add their stats. Seems to me we've gained quite a few new members over the last month or so!!

lurkerinthemidst · #351 Postby **lurkerinthemidst** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:50 pm

35 - I have been interested in weather to a degree for years but wasn't till my BF told me about this site during Charlie last year that I became die-hard. My DH said that I use to be addicted to the news on TV (weather - I have to see what's going on with the weather) but now I am addicted to Storm2K.
I don't watch the news hardly at all.

milankovitch · #352 Postby **milankovitch** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:03 pm

20, really go into tropical last two years. Before that I was really only interested in climate.

#353 Postby **secretforecaster** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:08 am

Just turned 30. Growing up in Alabama we had our fare share of tornadoes, but my interest in the tropics began while tracking Hurricane Hugo.

So I guess I have been addicted for about 16 years. WOW, I'd never realized before how long I've been a junkie! :lol:

#354 Postby **tampawx** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:17 am

37...been tracking for about 20 years (Elena in 1985)

#355 Postby **myred** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:41 am

44 Been tracking since Compuserve. I think about 1980. Does anyone remember Compuserve?

#356 Postby **TampaFl** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:51 am

I am 48 and have been tracking hurricanes since 1967 when I was growing up in Miami , or 38 years. The tropics are fasinating!!

Robert 8-)

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#357 Postby **TSmith274** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:45 am

I'm 27... today's my birthday, and I've been tracking hurricanes since hurricane Florence passed over New Orleans in 1988, I believe. I was 9yrs old at the time. Loved hurricanes, and became a little bit of a wish-caster... until Katrina.

Katrina has truly made me dread hurricanes. I'm still fascinated by them, but I hate them, and I'd rather study them from afar.

arkess7 · #358 Postby **arkess7** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:58 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! :uarrow:

NoceoTotus · #359 Postby **NoceoTotus** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:03 am

36... Got really involved tracking tropical systems when I began writing software for emergency management a few years ago but have been tracking storms and such, for at least general interest purposes, since I was in my teens.

#360 Postby **ColinDelia** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:33 am

36 yo. 26 years. I had a corkboard map of the tropics with pushpins and a weather radio.

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