It has been a week since the last leg of the tour ended and we are still not fully recovered. Trucks to fix, paperwork to do, filming to prepare for and we leave again on Monday for a tour in Omaha of public schools! Not really time off!There are a lot of changes coming up ahead with Chasing4Life, the educational foundation, drivers, instructors, tours and the website. You will begin to notice (and might have already) that the website pages are being re-written. Banners will change, sponsors are being changed, moved and added, and the overall feel of things is changing. You will be noticing new pages, a new focus, more educational materials and hopefully more blogging!
The film, Chasing With Heart, could be very well on its way to completion with the arrival of Verita Pictures from Canada in 7 days to finish shooting. This is exciting and will put us into the next phase of Chasing4Life's changes.
We are excited that our old crew has almost completely returned and the disaster recovery focus has definitely returned to Chasing4Life bringing with it memories of the ice storms, tornadoes, hurricanes and blizzards of a few years ago.
Christina is working hard on the recovery team and recruitment along with tour packaging and grants while Nikki has begun to work on personnel and protocols for the restored team. Chad is presently working on a new truck and will be working on victim relations procedures while we hope Dan can complete a communications plan for the coming year. It is our goal to send Cory to school this year; a move we feel would give us one of the finest forecasters any team could have, and Jim is looking ahead to disaster recovery coordination and will be meeting with Nikki over the weekend. Cathy is hard at work on tours and scheduling events while Alannah is preparing for more involvement as a presenter on the next few tours while keeping up on her studies.
Chasing4Life's metamorphysis will be massive over the next few months as we focus more on severe weather monitoring and training, research and education, disaster recovery and community restoration. You will see fewer references to stormchasing as the months progress as Chasing4Life begins to make changes that will separate the organization from the perceptions that follow stormchasers around the country.
Looking forward to seeing all the changes? We are!
Want to be involved?
Now is the time to email us and request a disaster response team application. Now is the time to grab an available date for your organization before the tours are full, and now would be a great time to step up as a sponsor.
It's almost the end of the year, and sponsorships all expire at the end of the year so if you are a company, entity or organization looking to attach themselves to a national team with national exposure and a cause worth backing, email us right away.
Well, enough for now, but watch for more and more updates...
Oh yeah...don't forget!
The 72 Hour experiement is less than 10 days away!
