June 12, 2005
tyler | June 12, 2005Miles Traveled: 15
I hadn't planned on chasing today as the forecast didn't look good in the morning. That'll teach me to only look at the forecast and data once! Anyway, I happened to bring up my radar software towards the end of the afternoon while working on something else and I notice a Tornado Watch for the county west of me! What the heck?!?!?!
A quick kiss to the wife and a respond of "You owe me big if you go!!" and I was out the door.
An absolute and total bust. Over the past several days I had noticed something wierd going on with the power distribution in my car. Ham radio would flicker on and off, etc. I didn't have time to fix anything. I had taken enough time to figure out it was something with my wiring.
Well wouldn't you know it! 15 miles into the chase and the entire system shuts down. No power to the GPS, no power to the Laptop, no power to the radios, nothing. I pulled off the road to try and "hotwire" at least my radio in but even that failed.
Given the fact that my wife wasn't too thrilled with me chasing today I decided to turn around and go home.
At home I unplugged everything, ran a voltage meter over every connection and finally found the problem. Bad connection to the car battery. ARGH!!!
Makes me sick to my stomach to think I missed the last chase opportunity (probabily) of this horrible chase season to a bad battery connection. I think Im going to cry.
