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Storm Chasers
Storm chaser or stormchaser may refer to: Weather * Storm chasing, the pursuit of any severe weather condition * Storm chaser, colloquial term referring to scammers who enter areas recently afflicted by disasters offering false or shoddy services * ''Storm Chaser'', a book by Warren Faidley, professional storm chasing journalist * ''Storm Chasers'' (TV series), a documentary reality television series on the Discovery Channel Entertainment * ''Storm Chaser'' (EP), a 2007 EP by Erasure * Wind Chaser, a roller coaster at the Kentucky Kingdom amusement park previously known as Storm Chaser * Storm Chaser (Paultons Park), a roller coaster at the Paultons Park amusement park * Omaha Storm Chasers The Omaha Storm Chasers are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. They are located in Papillion, Nebraska, a suburb southwest of Omaha, Nebraska, Omah ..., an American baseball team ...
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Storm Chasing
Storm chasing is broadly defined as the deliberate pursuit of any severe weather phenomenon, regardless of motive, but most commonly for curiosity, adventure, scientific investigation, or for news or media coverage. A person who chases storms is known as a storm chaser (or "chaser" for short). While witnessing a tornado is the single biggest objective for most chasers, many chase thunderstorms and delight in viewing cumulonimbus and related cloud structures, watching a barrage of hail and lightning, and seeing what skyscapes unfold. A smaller number of storm chasers attempt to intercept tropical cyclones, waterspouts, blizzards, and other weather phenomena. Nature of and motivations for chasing Storm chasing is chiefly a recreational endeavor, with chasers usually giving their motives as photographing or video recording a storm, or for various personal reasons. These can include the beauty of the views afforded by the sky and land, the mystery of not knowing precisely what ...
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Scammer
A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naivety, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men') at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')". Terminology Other terms for "scam" include confidence trick, con, con game, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, stratagem, finesse, grift, hustle, bunko, bunco, swindle, flimflam, gaffle, and bamboozle. The perpetrator is often referred to as a scammer, confidence man, con man, con artist, grifter, hustler, or swindler. The intended victims are known as marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls (from the word ''gullible''). When accomplices are employed ...
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Warren Faidley
Warren Faidley (born May 11, 1957) is an American storm chaser. Faidley is credited as the world's first full-time, professional storm photographer. Biography Faidley is a graduate from University of Arizona and Pima Community College. His very first tornado chase landed him in Saragosa, Texas a small community that had been swept away by a violent F4 tornado on May 22, 1987.Warren Faidley (2006 e-edition 2009) Storm Chaser - A lifelong quest to find the perfect storm. ASIN: B0028N6OMK His professional career was launched in October 1988 after he took a photograph of lightning hitting a light pole in an oil and gasoline tank farm in Tucson, Arizona. The image was published in Life Magazine ''Life'' (stylized as ''LIFE'') is an American magazine launched in 1883 as a weekly publication. In 1972, it transitioned to publishing "special" issues before running as a monthly from 1978 to 2000. Since then, ''Life'' has irregularly publi ..., billing him as a "Storm Chaser." In ...
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Storm Chasers (TV Series)
''Storm Chasers'' is an American documentary film, documentary reality television, reality television program, television series that premiered on October 17, 2007, on the Discovery Channel. Produced by Original Media (production company), Original Media, the program follows several teams of Storm chasing, storm chasers as they attempt to intercept tornadoes in Tornado Alley in the United States. The show was canceled at the end of its 5th season by Discovery Communications on January 21, 2012. Overview ''Storm Chasers'' was filmed each year in the central United States (an area known as Tornado Alley due to the frequency and severity of tornadoes occurring there) primarily during late spring and early summer, the time of the most frequent tornado activity (though some episodes of recent seasons have also been filmed in the lesser-known Dixie Alley in the southeastern U.S.). Several teams of storm chasers appear in the series. During the 2007 and 2008 seasons Joshua Wurman ...
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Storm Chaser (EP)
''Storm Chaser'' is an EP recorded by English synth-pop duo Erasure. It was released in the UK and Germany by Mute Records on 24 September 2007 and a North American release followed on October 2.Erasure • News • Latest News
The EP is available on CD, limited edition 7-inch vinyl and digital download. ''Storm Chaser'' contains nine tracks, including new, extended and versions of songs taken from the band's 2007 album ''

Wind Chaser
Wind Chaser is a steel roller coaster located at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Designed by Alan Schilke and manufactured by Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) at an estimated cost of $10 million, the ride opened to the public on April 30, 2016. It features three inversions, a 78-degree drop, and a maximum speed of utilizing RMC's patented I-Box track technology. Originally manufactured by Custom Coasters International, the ride first opened as a wooden dueling coaster named Twisted Sisters in 1998. After American heavy metal band Twisted Sister threatened to sue the park, the name was changed to Twisted Twins in 2002. It closed indefinitely in 2007, and its future became uncertain after Kentucky Kingdom ceased operations in 2010. RMC was hired to refurbish the ride as Storm Chaser for the 2016 season, two years after the park reopened in 2014. As a budgetary measure, some of the supports from Twisted Twins were reused. It was nominated for "Best New R ...
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Storm Chaser (Paultons Park)
Storm Chaser is a steel spinning roller coaster located at Paultons Park in Hampshire, England. The coaster debuted alongside the new £12 million Tornado Springs area of the park on 12 April, 2021. Storm Chaser and Tornado Springs were initially intended to debut for the 2020 season, but were postponed to 2021 due to the then-emerging COVID-19 pandemic. History Speculation for a new park area – following the widely successful ''Peppa Pig World'' and '' Lost Kingdom'' investments – was fueled by various developments that took place during the latter half of 2018. Between July and September 2018, Paulton's Park filed multiple trademarks with the IPO for the following names; ROUTE 83, STORM CHASER, and AL'S AUTO ACADEMY. During the fall, the park relocated various animal enclosures to other parts of the property, clearing a sizable construction site. In November, a Twitter account representing the tourism bureau of the fictional town Tornado Springs was created and immediately ...
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Omaha Storm Chasers
The Omaha Storm Chasers are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. They are located in Papillion, Nebraska, a suburb southwest of Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, and play their home games at Werner Park, which opened in 2011. The team previously played at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium from 1969 to 2010. Omaha has been the only Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals since their inception in the 1969 Major League Baseball expansion. They were originally known as the Omaha Royals when established as a member of the Triple-A American Association (1902–1997), American Association in 1969. They joined the Pacific Coast League (PCL) in 1998 and were briefly known as the Omaha Golden Spikes (1999–2001) before reverting to their Royals moniker. Omaha became the Storm Chasers in 2011. In conjunction with Major League Baseball's restructuring of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the team was placed in t ...
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Stormchaser (Stewart And Riddell Novel)
''The Edge Chronicles'' is a children's fantasy novel series written by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell. It consists of four trilogies, plus four additional books, and other books related to the universe (The Edge). The series was originally published by Doubleday, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Penguin Books was or ..., and has sold more than three million copies, according to its publisher. The stories of ''The Edge Chronicles'' take place in the fictional world of The Edge, a vast cliff with no apparent bottom. The majority of books are grouped into sagas, with each saga focusing on one character. The power of flight is a major theme of the books, with each age defined by the current technology used for air travel. In the first ...
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Stormchaser (album)
''Stormchaser'' is the fourth studio album by the melodic death metal band Light This City. Track listing # "Stormchaser" – 5:25 # "Fragile Heroes" – 4:01 # "The Anhedonia Epidemic" – 4:53 # "Beginning with Release" – 4:54 # "Firehaven" (featuring Chuck Billy of Testament A testament is a document that the author has sworn to be true. In law it usually means last will and testament. Testament or The Testament can also refer to: Books * ''Testament'' (comic book), a 2005 comic book * ''Testament'', a thriller no ...) – 3:35 # "The Collector, Part. 1: Muse" – 3:32 # "The Collector, Part. 2: Donor" (featuring John Strachan of The Funeral Pyre) – 3:43 # "A Desperate Resolution" – 4:33 # "Wake Me at Sunset" – 5:11 # "Bridge to Cross" – 3:30 # "Sand and Snow" – 3:18 # "Self Portrait" – 3:30 Personnel *Laura Nichol – vocals *Ryan Hansen – guitar *Brian Forbes – guitar *Jon Frost – bass guitar *Ben Murray: drums References 2008 albums Light ...
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