Welp, the YouTube launch happens on Friday! At 6:30pm, the first NEW video of the NEW rebrand premieres! It’ll be the first time ever online I have detailed out my first chase and first tornado all the way back in 1997. It was the chase/tornado that started this whole thing I’ve been doing for the last 30 seasons. I poured a lot of time and ‘research’ into this; and by research, I mean digging through old tubs and boxes to find everything I still had in existence from that era. That includes an old high school “time capsule” video I took, literally ONE WEEK before the tornado chase. That’s so cool to me that video was shot when it was cause it just gives the video such an era. The photos, including some from waaay back, plus some cover video I had to do, including radar and a very nifty TWC call-back to the late 90s. I’m very proud of it, and it’s a perfect way to launch to the channel. Meanwhile, I am going to go live on Facebook about 30 minutes prior to the launch to chat and generate a little buzz. I am not expecting a big turn out, probably my mom and my aunt honestly haha I don’t have a huge captive audience, but you never know. I don’t really care, I am just excited to have this going. Even have a couple other VLOGs and chase stories in the can, ready for the every-other-Friday upload schedule. The Fridays between are reserved for low-lift, more short-form type stuff; one of those things being called Storm Chase minis where I talk about an event that doesn’t deserve or need a full chase log, but may have happened on a chase that’s pretty cool. Other ideas are behind-the-scenes type stuff, coverage of a certain event, maybe talking about non-storm-chase stuff like blizzards or hurricanes, etc. Easy lifts, basically, that don’t require hours of investment to create. I mean, hell, I got 30 seasons worth of stuff, plenty to keep the channel on at least a once a week schedule.
But that all said, if you have stumbled your way in here prior to Friday the 27th and you don’t have anything better to do Friday evening, drop in, say hi, and waste about 13 minutes of your life listening to me talk about my origin. Yes, this is my origin story haha