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A personal question.

#1 Postby Stormcenter » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:37 pm

How old is everyone on this board and how long have you been tracking storms? If you guys and gals don't want to answer that's fine. I was just curious.

I'm 41 and have been tracking storms for 26 years.
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#2 Postby Anonymous » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:38 pm

16 years old, five years.
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#3 Postby OklahomaWeather » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:40 pm

23, never really cared about tropical weather until last year. I've always been a Plains WX girl, but once I graduated from OU and got a job forecasting typhoons and hurricanes world-wide, I kinda HAD to become interested! haha! I've now moved on and am no longer forecasting hurricanes, but I still follow them closely.
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#4 Postby wxman57 » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:40 pm

I'm 48, born in Lafayette, LA. My mother got me tracking hurricanes back in 1961, when I was 4 years old.
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#5 Postby HurricaneQueen » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:41 pm

Ok. I'll bite. I am 59 y/o and have been tracking storms since I moved to Florida in 1974. I became really serious about it about 20 years ago when we started taking our annual vacation to St. Maarten right at the height of hurricane season. Have been hooked ever since.

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#6 Postby Amanzi » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:43 pm

27, been interested in the tropics since 2001.
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#7 Postby alicia-w » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:45 pm

45 and interested since i was 11. you do the math.
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#8 Postby cajungal » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:46 pm

Just turned 29. Really got into hurricanes the year of Andrew. I had just turned 16. So, almost 13 years of being hooked on tropical weather.
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#9 Postby MyrtleBeachGal » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:46 pm

I'm 38 and I was in 2nd grade when my teacher taught me how to track hurricanes. ...with a graph and pencil! :eek: that was before internet LOL
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#10 Postby ohiostorm » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:46 pm

I'm 21 and I've been watching hurricanes and weather for 9 years.
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#11 Postby Meso » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:46 pm

18 , been tracking :edit: hurricanes : for about a year.. Thunderstorms for about 4 years
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#12 Postby Roxy » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:47 pm

27, about 10 years.
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#13 Postby joseph01 » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:48 pm

I'm 47, and became obsessed two years ago. Learning a lot on Storm2K.
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#14 Postby Canelaw99 » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:48 pm

Will be 29 next month (I'll e-mail ya a gift list ;) ) and have been watching/tracking storms for a few years now, but really interested within the last couple of years.
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29 here ...

#15 Postby Weatherboy1 » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:49 pm

been excited about storms and watched hurricanes since I was very young (less than 10). But since I have lived in South FL most of my life ... and there were basically no storms that hit for the entire 1980s and 90s (Andrew didn't cause any trouble in my neck of the woods in northern Palm Beach County and I was in college in Boston for Erin in 1995) ... I didn't experience much. That started to change with Irene in 1999, the extremely close call with Floyd that year, etc. And of course, last year was the big Kahuna (out of town for Frances, but rode out the southern eyewall of Jeanne).

-Mike
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#16 Postby chris_fit » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:50 pm

Just turned 22 on July 12th,

Been trackin since I went through Hurricane Bob (early 90s???) in Quincy MA.

Now live in Florida :)
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#17 Postby jasons2k » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:50 pm

I am 31 and started in 1984 with Hurricane Diana. I was living in Savannah, GA at the time.

Been obsessed since...
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#18 Postby dhweather » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:51 pm

37, tracking for 29 years. Ham operator for 25 years, Skywarn spotter for 20 years. Man, I'm old and a weather geek.
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#19 Postby wxwatcher91 » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:51 pm

14, been monitoring weather for 6 years, tracking hurricanes for 3 years
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#20 Postby Swimdude » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:51 pm

I'll be 17 in under a week... and I've been tracking since 1998... I guess I was 10 then.
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