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That sign is on a Shell gas station at Ogallala. I just think the whole "we think!" part leaves room for doubt and then the silly advertising is that much sillier. If I have to go and I'm crusing down the interstate out in that part any crapper will do. I don't think a smidge cleaner than clean is worth the 30+ cents more for gas they were charging than the places just into town. I suppose their wifi was though, lol. I sat right there infront of that for over an hour sucking up their wifi. BTW....if I remember correctly their premium gas was $2.54/g.   Ok, drove nw of the lake towards early convection only to see the real storm go up in ne CO near Sterling. So, I raced south after driving nw to the only south option around..ug. I got there, oh, 30+ minutes later as it dies! This was the shot I got of it near the town of Crook Colorado(appropriately enough). So my first chase into CO yeilded the Crook crapper.
I was depressed at this point after all the driving of the day. I get back up to I-80 and gas up at Big Springs(my lovely last year screw up). Nothing but good feelings all around now recalling past and pressent screw ups and putting MORE high priced gas in. So I wonder about going north back to where I was at the convection still there but now looking better. I go in and get a big big big sugar cookie and another pepsi. Persistance sort of paid off the day before with long-lived, slow moving, enjoyable tail-end charlie so off I went. And this is where I end up. Sandhills "road options". Where would I go if another car came, I wasn't sure, but what I was sure about was that I wouldn't have to worry about anything motorized now. I didn't record the first few PILES of tumbleweeds, but here is one hill. The roads were bad enough without tumbleweed drifts.
My storm wasn't very far to my nw at this point so I was a lot hurried to find something better road-wise. I bet the bottom tubmleweeds in these piles were setting there before I was born.
Zooooom! Get me out of here. I was very much affraid of precip at this point. This road in the still looks much much wider than it really is.
Outflow-dominant tail-end charlie. All shots are at 17mm wide angle so the storm isn't as far away as it looks.
This has to be one of the goofier fast-forwarded video pieces I have watched. It is all in how you look at it. Much like an illusion. The white thing/area went from looking like the clearing next to a dark wedge to the object I later saw all while watching it. I would slow it down and try to judge where this visual change took place and I couldn't but it is clear now that in the image above that is white scud infront of precip.
This was a very nice show. I shot 20 minutes of tri-podded video of this to timelapse. It sucks my tape ran out as the best part came in the last 5 minutes and looked to continue for another 5-10.