Five Minutes of Fame

Adam returned home on Monday from his 6-week-long Vortex2 tornado chase. Besides catching fleeting glimpses of him on The Weather Channel from time to time during that period, we were excited to discover that some of the pictures Adam had taken were displayed on our local NBC station. Yes, my son emailed photos of his tornado encounter to Channel 4, yet I, his mother, have not yet seen them. He also completed a phone interview with the WDIV meteorologists while he was still on the road. After being preempted twice last week - first for breaking news about some flooding, and then for the final Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup playoff game - Adam's interview and story finally aired on Tuesday. The video of that broadcast is available on the clickondetroit.com website, and is labeled, "UM Students Have Close Encounter With Tornado." See here. If you would like to view the earlier story that Channel 4 televised when Adam sent them his tornado pictures, click here. That one is titled, "Project Studies Tornadoes." The videos will only be available for a few weeks on the WDIV website, but we did tape the one with Adam's interview on our totally-out-of-date-and-humiliatingly-old-fashioned VCR. Hopefully someone we know with a DVR has a copy of one or the other of the Channel 4 stories because eventually our VCR will be obsolete, and our tape will undoubtedly become worthless. I guess that will teach us not to rely on 1990s technology anymore!