Archives for July 2009

Not quite Kansas

We finally had our first tornado warning of the year here on the outskirts of Peoria last week. The area is fringe at best for the rotating bastards, and they never approach the insanity that they do in Kansas. I… continue reading »

What goes up, must come down

I’m a classic over-thinker. A worrier. So there I am, being strapped into a harness in the back of a single-engine Beechcraft with the back doors off. A reporter of ours gets fitted with parachute and squeezed into his aerobatic… continue reading »