A personal question.

[BettyBoop]

38 years old. Was sort of dragged in to it by my mother, Mom H , during our three-peat last year. I'm now onboard myself and learning alot!

[mascpa]

50 years old. Been tracking them since I was about 7 or 8 years old when I experienced my first hurricane (Betsy, Cleo, Donna ... one of them, forget which one).

[cjrciadt]

Almost 21, tracking about 3 months today. After last year I never want to be unprepared again, this site is pretty addictive.

[jax]

when we go back to school after Camile 69' out teacher
drew on the chalk board and showed us the track... I
was hooked from then on. That was a big deal in school...
tracking the late season storms. (we never started school
before Labor day)

[weatherwoman]

44 and tracking them for about 24 years. i live on the coast of north carolina so its very interestint here for us and i get very excited about getting a hurricane i love them and the thrill of one coming ourway is over whelming to me and several family members. i am also a county weather spotter and thinking very seriously of going to met school.

[USCG_Hurricane_Watcher]

Just turned 30...Been tracking since September 21st, 1989.

[Charles-KD5ZSM]

I am 18 and a half. I have been Tracking for a few years now. I have really started to kick up my tracking since i am a met major now, and since i have started to work with local Civil Defense agencies as a ham radio operator. I have been interested in weather since......probably 4th or 6th grade.

[RevDodd]

I'm 49 and really got interested in storms the night a tornado dropped a neighbors Jon boat in our back yard in Tulsa.

We moved to South Carolina and I got hooked listening to WWL when Camille came in. Got an A on a science project that fall by tracing Camilles's path if it had come to Charleston...of course that was 20 years before Hugo, but I think my estimates were pretty close to truth.

[Dee Bee]

I'm 55. We moved to SoFla from a lifetime in Chicago five years ago. Frances and Jeanne led me to hurricane tracking and S2K, which is one awesome "fountain of knowledge" on everything weather-related.

[inotherwords]

I am 51, lived here 7 years. Also lived in FL back in 1971-77 (Plantation and Tampa) and also spent nearly every summer vacation in Sarasota growing up. Also lived in Houston for 9 years in the late 70s and much of the 80s. Was in Alicia. TS/Borderline Cat 1 Gabrielle made landfall literally in my back yard. Grazed by all 4 FL storms last year with only landscape damage.

You'd think with this background living on the GOM coast for so many years, I'd have been tracking hurricanes forever. But nooooooooo. I was oblivious of the real danger until around 1999 when Georges and Irene and Mitch all got my attention, but fortunately did not pay a close and personal visit here. Since then I've been reading, lurking, occasionally posting, and trying to learn more here on these boards. I still don't know much of anything about what steers these guys around, but I'm benefiting from listening to the experts and the dedicated enthusiasts. I hope it's OK to ask dumb questions from time to time.

And god bless the young people that are here! Don't worry about being young, age catches up to you soon enough. I still can't believe I'm the age I am already.

[george_r_1961]

Im 44 and I started tracking hurricanes in 1969 when Camille struck the Gulf Coast.

[Houstonia]

this is an amazing thread.

I'm turning 41 in 14 days (wow.. that's some kind of weird numerology there).

My mother always wanted to be a meteorologist and she always wanted to go up in the weather planes. But in her day girls didn't do things like that. Throughout my childhood, she kept a daily log of the weather - we have 2 or 3 notebooks filled with her listings of the temperature (3 times a day), humidity, precipitation, barometer, and her comments about the weather.

I guess you could say that she influenced my interest. But my interest in hurricanes didn't really begin until I went through Alicia. After Alicia I wanted to know exactly what the hurricane was doing.

[wxmann_91]

Now that hurricane season is almost over, shouldn't this thread be a sticky again?

[Jim Cantore]

15

be 16 on January 31 been tracking hurricanes since 1996

[brunota2003]

bump for now, as i dont feel like having to dig these out tomorrow...

[gerrit]

54 and interested in hurricanes since I moved to Puerto Rico from Europe in 2001. Tracking since last year when Jeanne took me by surprise

This site is the best source of info on storms and hurricanes for me - thanks and keep up the good work!

[theworld]

43, and have taken interest in weather since watching the swirling fast moving clouds in the evening over Baltimore MD where I grew up, during Hurricane Camille in 1969.

[bigmike]

38 and tracking for about 5 years. Lived in central fla all my life and never really paid much attention to them until I moved to NW fla and opal showed up.

[Ivanhater]

18, 19 in january....lived in p'cola all my life...go to college in mobile and i am a meteorology major

[mommasue]

I'm 48 and have been tracking them since I moved to the MGC in 1989.