(Transcript) Marginal Moments: Carolina Roundtable

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[00:00:45] Maddie: All right. Hi, y’all. Welcome back to Chaser Chat. My name is Maddie Smith. Just introduced myself here. I’m a new episode host for the Chaser Chat podcast. Gabe had me on the show a couple months back, and when he reached out to me offering the chance to be a part of the relaunch for the podcast, I jumped at the opportunity.

[00:01:02] We got a lot of different personalities and awesome people on the team, and I’m super excited to be a part of this. I’m a senior meteorology student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and would label myself as a pretty mediocre storm chaser. But luckily for me, I am joined today by some really cool people and who I think are probably better chasers than I am.

[00:01:21] So you guys are in luck. Today, I have three storm chasers out of the Carolinas, not typically the area of the country that first comes to mind when you think of where most storm chasers are located. However, we do exist and we occasionally get some of that severe weather action that folks out in the plains are so blessed with.

[00:01:38] So enough for me. I want to go ahead and introduce who I got with me today. First up, we got the one and only famed YouTuber and chaser Mitch West. Say hi, Mitch. Tell us a little bit about you. 

[00:01:50] Mitch: What’s going on guys. I’m Mitch. Yeah, I love the weather. Yeah, I got a YouTube channel started off in the Carolinas, really South Carolina began to expand outward and pretty much have reached to where it is now and Yeah, it’s awesome.

[00:02:07] Carolinas are great. Of course, I’m always biased towards the Carolinas that’s where my heart is. But yeah, I started YouTube and just kept grinding it out and it’s been great. Pretty decent success. So met a lot of great people on here. So I’m happy to be here.

[00:02:24] Maddie: I call it pretty successful for sure.

[00:02:26] I feel like when I think of pretty one larger accounts, I feel like you’re up there. So.

[00:02:32] Mitch: I appreciate it. 

[00:02:33] Giving Carolina a good name. All right. Thanks Mitch. So next up we have the self described 1, 576th ranked storm chaser east of the Mississippi, Andrew Ellswick. 

[00:02:45] Andrew: My name is Andrew. I’m from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I’m born and raised. I’m a junior at the University of South Carolina. I’m a geology major now. I’ve always been into weather. Once I got my driver’s license, I started storm chasing. Gone up from there. So that’s pretty much all there is to it. Just out there having fun, 

[00:03:05] Maddie: Thank you, Andrew. And last but not least, I have my sworn enemy and local pain in my butt, Gerald Mingle.

[00:03:12] Introduce yourself, Gerald. 

[00:03:15] Gerald: Yeah, like Maddie said, I’m Gerald, I go to school with Maddie at UNC Charlotte, I will be a junior meteorology major here in the fall, which, I guess it’s only a couple of weeks away now. I’m also a storm chaser in the Carolinas when I can, when I’m not studying or working, and I also have a YouTube channel like Mitch, although not nearly as cool as his, unfortunately, but we’ll get there one day, maybe. So that’s a little bit about me.

[00:03:39] Mitch: Come on, man. Your channel is awesome, dude. You know it. 

[00:03:42] Maddie: All right. I don’t know about y’all, but I’m freshly caffeinated, probably, overly and ready to yap. First off, I feel like I want to have a fun, a little bit of a fun topic. The Infamous Carolina marginal. Now, and I feel like when weather enthusiasts and the general public think about severe weather, it’s normally associated when the SPC puts out a slight risk or higher, but, and I don’t really know how to explain it.

[00:04:07] And I’ll let y’all talk about this, but when there’s a marginal risk issue across our portion of the country, it just has something different about it. And from my personal experience has led to chases that are like just as successful and sometimes, Honestly, probably more than half the time, I’m more successful than when a higher level risk is issued.

[00:04:24] The classic Carolina marginal, I want to trademark it. But yeah, I don’t know about y’all. I’ll let y’all talk about if you have any notable marginal risk chases. I feel like me and Gerald have definitely talked about this.

[00:04:37] Andrew: Gerald was the one, me and you, that was marginal, right? 

[00:04:39] Gerald: Yeah, I guess I’ll go first. So funnily enough, all the tornadoes I’ve ever seen were in a marginal risk and barely a marginal at that. I think it was like, Probably not even that far from a general thunderstorm risk. So yeah, I think it’s funny.

[00:04:54] A lot of the times here whenever we’re chasing and we are looking at the SPC website, it’s almost like we don’t want them to up it because it feels like we just have way better luck in marginal risk. It’s if it goes to a slight, just the whole setup is ruined. But I think the cool thing about it here compared to the plains is I feel like it makes it that much more exciting because you don’t expect it necessarily.

[00:05:14] Also there’s only a handful of chasers out here, even on the big days, let alone the marginal days. I just think it adds a kind of cool Carolina vibe to things. 

[00:05:23] Andrew: I think it’s a. A lot more fun to the marginal risks. It’s usually more localized type of setup.

[00:05:28] The bigger setups that we usually get like the remnant setups that the like Dixie alley would see and timing, I feel like for us, never usually works out well. They usually hit the mountains, and then like daytime heating it just doesn’t quite work out well by the time, peak instability is there.

[00:05:48] It’s already to the ocean. All the energy is just gone. So usually the best luck I think we get is with the marginal risk type of setups. 

[00:05:58] Mitch: Yeah. You guys definitely balled out with that. I haven’t had as much luck with marginal risk as you guys have, but y’all, you guys have killed it over the last couple of years, but Yeah, I’ve definitely scored some pretty gnarly shelf clouds and things like that on marginal rest days.

[00:06:11] But I think you guys are more of the risk takers locally with going out there and making the best out of what most probably wouldn’t even bother going an hour or two hours or even three hours out of the way to chase like you guys do. So I know that chase a few months ago or a couple of months ago was freaking phenomenal.

[00:06:30] You guys really carry the Carolinas on your back with that one. So

[00:06:33] Maddie: I feel like you’re giving us a lot of credit Mitch. 

[00:06:36] Mitch: No, you are. I’m not, I’ve went out far, but I’ve, you guys have more, had more success in the Carolinas than I have. I got very fortunate on April 5th, 2022, which is a totally different story, but that was an enhanced risk.

[00:06:49] So you guys been killing it on marginal risk days. 

[00:06:52] Maddie: Like Gerald said, anytime it gets upgraded, I’m like, Oh, and nothing’s going to happen. It’s going to bust. I can never get any good structure. It like, daytime heating never works that way. It’s just, it’s disgusting to chase, honestly. It’s so disappointing.

[00:07:04] Whether, marginals never disappoint me. I can always, I don’t know. They’re more 

[00:07:09] Mitch: y’all got close that one day. It was back in May, man. I thought y’all are all going to score tornado you and Gerald with the car issues. Yeah, that day.

[00:07:18] Gerald: Yeah, I think another kind of cool thing about the marginal risk thing is, I feel like people in the planes like on high risk days whenever they see these tornadoes.

[00:07:28] As cool as it is for them to experience that, I feel like their content kind of gets lost in the wave of everyone else’s stuff. Around here on a marginal day, like for example, in May we had basically a tornado outbreak and, the Myrtle Beach Wilmington area of North Carolina and South Carolina and me and Andrew were the only people in the entire state of South Carolina.

[00:07:47] With a camera looking at it. I think it just, that’s that cool thing where, you know, you and only a couple other people who actually put in the work to forecast that and go out there and see, it can have your content really shown out there. 

[00:07:59] Maddie: It’s definitely more fun. Like when you know who else is out there, cause it’s a really small community out here compared to where, like out in the plains, so like everybody, everybody big is out there, it’s a small group of people remember back in May, I knew exactly who was out and about Me and Gerald went chasing and it, I don’t know it’s a small community, but it, I don’t like, like Gerald said, it’s cool when you’re one of three people out there, and you’re one of the three who gets a shot, instead of the one of hundred chasers that are out in Oklahoma on an enhanced day.

[00:08:30] Andrew: Yeah, 

[00:08:32] Maddy: I want to talk about some notable chases. Now that y’all have had this, I’m going to open up the floor the good and the bad, the most interesting or the ones that taught you the biggest lessons. Take a second to ponder. But yeah, it doesn’t have to be the biggest lesson. No, go ahead. 

[00:08:47] Adnrew: The biggest lesson I’ve learned probably you can never leave too early.

[00:08:51] The biggest thing you can never leave too early. There was one, it was like one of my first real ones I ever went. It was, I was like, I was going to like North Carolina, Virginia border or something like that. And I like left at 11 o’clock and I got up there mystic and got to it as it was like the convection started.

[00:09:11] And by the time everything, like I was positioned, the sun was already going down. And I like missed quite a few storms, but now if I get somewhere, it’s, I leave at eight and if anything, sit in my car, eat McDonald’s or something, I can find the time to do something in the meantime.

[00:09:28] But yeah you’re going to miss something if you don’t leave early. So 

[00:09:32] Maddy: There’s something about the North Carolina, Virginia border. I feel like whenever I see tornado warnings, it’s like right up around the area every single time I never get it right. 

[00:09:42] Mitch: Yeah. I can’t stand chasing that area. I don’t know why. I don’t know if it’s just because on the way home, it feels like that’s such a long drive back down 95. I don’t know what it is, but I know that, I know you guys chase up in that area a lot, but that’s just such a long drive back home. Oof. 

[00:10:02] Maddie: Yeah, I imagine it’s a little bit further from you.

[00:10:04] When I end up there, I end up at my parents house in Eastern North Carolina, which isn’t as bad of a drive as driving back to Charlotte, but I don’t know, the terrain up there pisses me off. And the fact that like Virginia cops are you shouldn’t speed, but we all do when we get excited and they’ll get you.

[00:10:21] So I feel North Carolina. 

[00:10:23] Gerald: So it sounds like you have a notable not good chase story, Maddie, is what it sounds like.

[00:10:27] Maddie: I’ve never gotten pulled. Knock on wood I have bad luck in every other car situation, like it’s insane, but I’ve never gotten pulled. I’ve never gotten a ticket.

[00:10:41] Mitch: Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten pulled chasing. I think you’re absolutely lying through your teeth. If you say you don’t speed when you chase you try to hold yourself accountable, of course, but I remember I got pulled in Alabama and the cop was so cool. It was just. The coolest cop I’ve ever known.

[00:10:57] And they actually pulled me for riding too close to somebody. And I thought he was pulling me for speeding, but he wasn’t. He just let me go. But I actually got pulled the day that I got the tornado outbreak in in South Carolina, April 5th, 2022. I got pulled two hours before I caught the tornado.

[00:11:13] And I remember I was pretty bummed out about it. And then, I got the tornadoes and I just totally forgot about it. It was actually a seatbelt ticket. It wasn’t even speeding. Believe it or not, it was weird. I just, yeah, left my seatbelt off too long. 

[00:11:25] Maddie: How do they even tell? Cause I’ve always thought about that. It’s obviously illegal, but

[00:11:28] Mitch: small town in Georgia, I think he was right beside me and I wasn’t even noticing. And I don’t know, I guess he just didn’t tell it was over my shoulder. And that’s a weird, because I, that’s one thing that I’d always do is wear my seat belt and it was just a weird, a bad timing.

[00:11:45] Maddy: They’re in a speeding ticket, 

[00:11:46] Mitch: yeah, no much better. I actually got out of that.

[00:11:49] Gerald, I’m waiting. I know you got some notable chases up your sleeves. 

[00:11:54] Gerald: Yeah. So I actually got asked this question a couple weeks ago and I was asked like, you know what? Chases like stuck out and there’s a couple that stick out, but then I noticed the rest of ’em just blend together. Somebody asked me do I remember my first chase?

[00:12:07] And honestly, I’m not sure I do . I think it depends what you consider a storm chase. Notable chase wise though, this is, I’m gonna throw a curve. Seeing the aurora was a notable chase for me because that wasn’t something I just went outside my backyard and did. I drove up to the parkway, the Blue Ridge Parkway and we were unfortunately I chose, this is bad meteorology moment, but I chose the one part of the parkway that was like socked in clouds, and then they all broke and you could just see the blurs. That was a crazy moment for me.

[00:12:37] That was cool. And then five days later, I ended up seeing all those tornadoes in the Eastern Carolina. So that was, I would say my most notable chase slash chases slash five day stretch of chasing, whatever you want to call it. Another notable one that for not so great reasons is I got in a car wreck.

[00:12:55] this past March. It wasn’t my fault, so I’m very fond of telling the story. If this was like my fault, I’d probably be a little more embarrassed, but I was just sitting on a stop sign and somebody wrecked into me. And the funniest part about it is it happened in North South Carolina of all places.

[00:13:09] Like the funniest name town just adds that much character to the story. So that was a notably bad chase. I’ve also had plenty of chases where I’ve driven at least two, three, sometimes four or five hours. and seen a rain shower like it’s happened. Another notable chase that involves Maddie was last summer where we were in Eastern North Carolina.

[00:13:30] And all day long I’d been forecasting like Southeastern North Carolina was the place to be like, that’s where it’s going to happen. Maddie’s no, like nothing. And I’m going to blame you though, because it was your fault a little bit. And this is a hill I’ll die on. This was Maddie’s idea.

[00:13:44] So we were like sitting right in Central Eastern North Carolina. I don’t know, we’ll say New Bern latitude, but not that far east. So right in the middle. And Maddie’s no, it’s going to happen up north. Look at, whatever, model she was showing me, whatever observations she was showing us.

[00:13:59] I, all right, fine, Maddie, you’ve got an extra year or two of education on me. We’ll do it. We’ll go up there. And then these little showers start bubbling up and like, all right, she’s right. And then nothing happened. And all the way like an hour and a half South near Wilmington, these. Beautiful supercells just explode.

[00:14:15] They break the cap. Probably about as photogenic as you’re going to get in the Carolinas. And then me and Maddie absolutely hauled south. And luckily I would have been a lot more mad if those produced tornadoes, but they ended up not producing. And we got there just in time to get a couple pictures.

[00:14:29] But was another notable chase for me. 

[00:14:31] Maddie: Do you feel like the lesson for you there is just to have more of a backbone? Because you got to blame yourself there. Why are you listening to me? 

[00:14:39] Mitch: I’ll remember that chase. 

[00:14:40] Gerald: Lessons were learned. Lessons were learned. 

[00:14:42] Mitch: I think I remember that chase by y’all because it felt, I felt like y’all teleported from one part of North Carolina to the next.

[00:14:49] Because I was tracking y’all on radar. I was like, dang, they got there fast. But yeah, at least you got there 

[00:14:55] Maddy: somehow. I was probably going about 25 over. 

[00:15:00] Mitch: Yeah, that happens. 

[00:15:01] Maddy: Sorry, mom. That’s for you, Gerald. See, lesson learned, everybody. You guys just gotta grow a backbone, stick to your own forecast, 

[00:15:09] Gerald: Hey, you know what, Maddie, I’ll take it as a growing opportunity because there have been plenty of times since then that I will absolutely stick my foot out and just not listen to what other people say and be like, no, that’s not it. This is it. So if you know what, thank you, Maddie, actually. Thank you.

[00:15:22] Maddie: You’re welcome. It was on purpose, actually. I planned it all out so you could grow.

[00:15:28] Mitch: There you go. I actually I have a couple brutally fail of chases. I would say the number one, though, is It was around this time two years ago. Forgot which tropical system there was right off the west coast of Florida.

[00:15:42] I felt like it was Elsa. But it came up became a Category One hurricane. And then at weakend, and I think it ended up making landfall, a tropical storm right there in the armpit of Florida the big bend region of Florida, but basically I left here at about two o’clock in the afternoon. And I, it was a spontaneous thing.

[00:16:02] He’s you know what I’m I really want to, I really want to get this hurricane, first hurricane of the season is early. I want to go on here and do my thing here. So I drove eight and a half, nine hours to Tampa Bay. I think I was right outside of Gainesville, Florida. If you’re familiar with that area geographically of Florida and that thing started falling apart on radar.

[00:16:24] So I’m basically, just deep into Florida at this point. It was weird. It was a weird part of Florida where it looked like you were, it looked like you were like in the foothills of Florida. I didn’t understand what was going on, but so I’m driving down. I’m all the way six, seven hours into this trip and that tropical system.

[00:16:40] I don’t know if y’all remember that when it began to fall apart. So I basically drove all the way to Tampa for some 20 to 30 mile per hour wind gust and then literally sat there with, you guys might know him, Bryce Shelton for about two or three hours. I guess banking on something to restrengthen.

[00:16:59] And then I literally, I don’t even remember getting on my car much. I literally just drove straight all the way back to Columbia from Clearwater, Florida. And I think I stopped in a like a carwash, often sketch exit to just rest for two hours. But I somehow I got all the way back home by about 12 o’clock the next day.

[00:17:21] That was such a brutal chase. It was all for nothing. Absolutely nothing. 

[00:17:25] Maddie: It’s the worst. 

[00:17:27] Mitch: Yeah, it was that was a terrible fail to chase. But yeah, I can relate to Andrew though, too. And not really getting there too late, but leaving too early. I’ve gotten times where I’ve just gotten exhausted and just lost patience.

[00:17:39] I was like, man, I’m heading out. And then as soon as I’m two hours away from the complex of storms, it starts to produce. But I don’t know. I guess I just can’t hang like some of these chasers, man. I just I like to try to get there at the last second and then get back as soon as possible.

[00:17:52] I’m definitely not someone that’s gonna get there two days before hurricane makes the landfall and stay around two days after. I ain’t got no time for all that. So I get that too, for sure. 

[00:18:03] Maddie: Yeah, I can’t see myself leaving two days. No, like , I find myself leaving the house at six, seven in the morning.

[00:18:10] If I know there’s going to be something going on early afternoon, I don’t mind sitting around for a couple hours waiting. 

[00:18:17] Mitch: Yeah, I can’t stand it. I can’t. I’ll start to get just I’ll get fidgety and it’s dude, why did I leave so early? But then you take the risk, like Andrew said, you get there too late or something like that.

[00:18:31] Mitch: I feel like with you talking about Elsa, I feel like that’s a good segue into the next topic. This hurricane season, we’re about a month in and we just had Beryl make landfall in Texas, truck up to the west of us, produce a massive amount of tornado warnings. Whoa. It’s already marked this season as a historic season with how many records Beryl broke.

[00:18:50] Just wanted to get y’all’s thoughts on this hurricane season since They’re pretty active and with us living in the southeast, we’ve had our fair share of tropical storms impact our coast. I feel like Andrew, living at the coast right now, you might have some thoughts, some experiences. 

[00:19:10] Andrew: I like hurricanes. I think they’re interesting. I don’t want to see any above a Category Two here. I don’t think Myrtle Beach would recover for quite a few years, probably with Matthew, Florence, even Ian, Isaias. They were all millions and millions of dollars in damage, and they were pretty weak by the time they got here.

[00:19:31] Can’t forecast anything that’s gonna happen this year, but it’s getting worse and worse here as far as surge goes. It’s gotten increasingly higher. It’s like there was a winter storm here when I was back home for winter break over at college, back in college, and there was like three or four for the surge and that used to not happen.

[00:19:50] I think they said Cherry Grove is sinking a couple inches within the past 10 years or something like that. It floods every high tide now, so I just hope they stay away, 

[00:20:00] Maddie: yeah, me too. Me too. Yeah, go ahead. 

[00:20:04] Mitch: I’m sorry, Andrew. What’s gonna happen when the coast gets it by like a cat three or higher, man?

[00:20:09] That’s just it is just wild. It seems like when we just get a mid to high grade tropical storm, at least one pier is wiped out on the South Carolina coastline. And the storm surge is one thing, obviously, because that’s getting ridiculous. But when the steering currents get right, I just can’t imagine.

[00:20:24] You can say into the cows come home that we’re due. But is it actually going to happen? When is it going to happen? It’s a matter of time. But I just cannot imagine something like Hugo just bulldozing straight into the coastline. What it would do to Charleston, the Myrtle Beach. It is just like I said, we just keep getting the Carolina scrapers or they come up and then they, say, no, I’m too scared.

[00:20:44] And then hit on out and just scraping the coastline like that. It’s doing so much damage. I just can’t even fathom what just a high end Category Two hurricane would do. You know what I’m saying? 

[00:20:54] Yeah. Hurricane Hazel in 1954 when it came through, it’s like a Category Four came through the grand strand.

[00:21:01] Wiped out like 10 million something trees cleared out so much land. They started selling off the land. That’s basically what jump started Myrtle Beach, all the high rises and stuff made all that land available. And that’s what they made it what it is today. So I took out all those trees and Myrtle beach started with a hurricane.

[00:21:20] Chances are, unless the economy goes bust or something, that’ll probably be the thing that kind of takes it down in my opinion. There’s a lot of aging buildings. A lot of the hotels are old, not up to code. They’re grandfathered in. There’s downtown still a wreck. They’re trying to fix it, but. It’s going to be, I don’t even want to imagine what it would be like,

[00:21:39] Mitch: yeah, I definitely think it’s one of the most sensitive coastlines that people don’t really know about unless you’re local. 

[00:21:44] Andrew: Yeah. 

[00:21:45] Maddie: With the Outer Banks too, I just feel like with any system, it doesn’t even take a tropical system to knock out a pier on the Outer Banks. Every time something makes landfall over there, it knocks out, oh my gosh, what highway is that, 20, you know which ones I’m talking about?

[00:22:01] Somebody does. 

[00:22:01] Andrew: Yeah. Yeah. The outer banks, the one that goes all the way down, it’s washed out every single time. 

[00:22:06] Maddy: Wipes it out every single time. And it’s just it always, every time something gets close, I’m like, is this going to be one that just destroys the outer banks? And it’s such a, it’s such a huge tourist spotter, but, OBX made a whole Netflix show about it.

[00:22:19] It’s iconic spot. It’s beautiful out there, but I always wonder when it’s going to go, like you said, Myrtle Beach, like it’s just, that’s when you think that’s how it was. It’s going to end for them. And I don’t, 20, 30 years. I wonder if it’s going to even exist. 

[00:22:36] Mitch: Yeah, I imagine whatever hits Myrtle Beach is going to hit the Outer Banks.

[00:22:39] Unless it’s going to pull a Florence and dip like Southwest or something, which, you don’t see that much unless you got an extremely stagnant steering current or something like that. Florence was just weird. I don’t think Outer Banks has been hitting quite some time. They’re definitely due also.

[00:22:53] Seems like everybody is. 

[00:22:55] Maddie: Speaking of, any plans for hurricane chasing this year if something gets close? How are y’all thinking? How are y’all feeling about that? 

[00:23:01] Gerald: I think if it can happen before school starts and all four of us will be somewhere pretty similar timing wise, but I wanted to build real quick off of what Mitch said with it feels like we were due.

[00:23:12] Honestly, it feels like we’re due for every type of major storm in the Carolinas. Like we have been crazy boring and I was telling somebody this earlier, like I feel like I moved to Charlotte two years ago and whether in the Carolinas just stopped like that was, the last time that we had anything big.

[00:23:28] It’s been a while since we’ve had a major hurricane, winter storm. It’s been multiple years. Even like the tornado outbreaks that we’ve had have been mostly like weaker tornadoes. We haven’t had a April, 2011, repeat since then. So I just, I think the next couple of years are gonna get crazy in the Carolinas ’cause we’re overdue for a little bit of everything.

[00:23:47] Mitch: Dag on mountains, man. , 

[00:23:49] Andrew: Especially snow. 

[00:23:51] Maddie: Oh my God. We haven’t had any in two years. I remember January 2022, we had those, it was like three back and back weeks, I feel like, where we had snow once a week for three weeks, and it was lovely. I lived on campus, it was snowing, I fell a couple times, but it was fine, I’ll take it worth it.

[00:24:09] But ever since then, I feel like we used all our luck there, like we haven’t, we’ve gotten nothing close. No ice, no freezing rain, nothing since, and it’s processing 

[00:24:18] Andrew: That be the last time we had an inch of snow over an inch of snow in Myrtle Beach was like 2014. 

[00:24:23] Mitch: Y’all got who dude, in 20, that 2018 Winter Storm 2018. Yeah. Gerald I’m sure and Andrew, I know Andrew know ’cause he lived there. But you get you get them boys in Myrtle Beach talking about that storm and you’ll get ’em, throw ’em all in a loop on what happened with the dry air. Andrew, you probably know what I’m talking about, the January 3rd, 2018, I was pissed off enough in Columbia that it stopped about 45 minutes to my east, but just hearing the forecast bust in Myrtle Beach, I feel bad for all the meteorologists, because that’s just something you can’t really forecast, you can try, but yeah.

[00:24:56] Andrew: And the western part of Horry County got four inches. I think we got 0. 2 inches at my house. 

[00:25:04] Mitch: I’d be punching air, man. 

[00:25:06] Maddy: I’d be punching something for sure. 

[00:25:08] Mitch: You’re right, Gerald. We’re definitely do for we’re due for earthquakes to do. We’re due for everything, man.

[00:25:13] Maddy: I’ll get a notification every once in a while. And it’s like 2. 4 magnitude earthquake somewhere in South Carolina. I’m like, that’s the most interesting thing I’ve seen in 2 months. 

[00:25:22] Andrew: yeah, they were doing pretty good up there in Kershaw County for a little bit there. but it slowed down.

[00:25:29] Maddy: Little known parallel earthquakes. 

[00:25:31] Unfortunately. I’m running out of time here.

[00:25:35] I appreciate you guys for coming on. It’s been fun to talk. I’m sure I’ll run into y’all chasing. Hopefully, if the Carolinas can get its act together, this high pressure can go away for a little bit for an extended amount of time. I’m over high pressure officially. It’s been fun. I want to go ahead and give y’all the chance to plug your socials.

[00:25:53] Let the audience know where they can find you. I’ll start with you, Mitch. Drop whatever.

[00:25:58] Mitch: Yeah. It’s Mitch West Weather on YouTube. Mitch West on Twitter/X and Facebook. Mitch West Weather. Everything’s pretty easy there. 

[00:26:06] Maddie: All right. Go ahead, Andrew. 

[00:26:08] Andrew: Just Andrew Ellswick, WX on X or Twitter or whatever.

[00:26:13] That’s not the only one I got. 

[00:26:14] Maddie: Got you. Gerald drop them. 

[00:26:17] Gerald: Yeah. So you could basically just search my name on the Google. I’m sure something will pop up or probably GM Weather will be the easiest on YouTube and everything’s linked in there for all of you that are interested, 

[00:26:29] Mitch: My guy just gave us a mini flex there if he didn’t notice.

[00:26:32] Gerald: No, for real though, I have Googled it just out of curiosity and then it’ll have like a news article with my name in it or my YouTube. Okay, that makes it easy. Luckily, there are only so many Gerald Mingles in the world, so that helped.

[00:26:44] Andrew: I’m not that popular. Must be nice, man. 

[00:26:47] Maddie; Not all of us are in the news, Gerald.

[00:26:49] All right not all of us. be putting in the work either. Y’all are, but other people in the world, not so much. Hey, I said, y’all are, thank you very much. Especially Mitch real quick plug for Mitch. I don’t know how Mitch does it. I was telling when I was in Myrtle Beach and I was talking to this meteorologist there, I was like, I don’t know how he does it.

[00:27:07] He just doesn’t stop. It’s nonstop. Mitch just doesn’t, I don’t know when he sleeps. I don’t know when he eats. He’s just always doing the thing though. Mitch, you, I’m sure you, all of us work ethic wise for sure. 

[00:27:19] Mitch: Yeah, I just go to bed at 8 30 and wake up at 3 30, man. This is the time of the year where I don’t even make it to the sun fully sets, man.

[00:27:26] Yeah. But I appreciate it. I appreciate the love there, just got to try to keep the grind going, man. But y’all are great. 

[00:27:31] Andrew: You got that pizza coming soon, too. 

[00:27:34] Mitch: Yeah, man, this Friday. Oh, my gosh, I can’t wait. 

[00:27:38] Maddie: How long has it been now since you had it last? 

[00:27:40] Mitch: Last day of really the mid March. I had a slice of Cici’s because I had to because I had a little soccer party with my soccer kids and I didn’t want to not join in.

[00:27:50] So technically I ate a piece of there. But since I had a full fledged meal, it’s been since mid March. And if you don’t know me like that, that there was a time in my life. I eat pizza just about every other day. So it’s pretty big deal to me. 

[00:28:04] Maddie: Yeah. I don’t know if I can go out long props to you. I couldn’t do it. Thank you guys for coming on where you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Madeline underscore WX – M A D E L Y N it’s spelled weird. But I’m mostly on Twitter. I don’t post much on Instagram, but thank you guys for coming on. Thank you guys for listening and I’ll see y’all next time. 

[00:28:25] Mitch: All right. Appreciate having us. 

[00:28:26] Andrew: Thank you.

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