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Doug Kiesling – Weather Paparazzi
I was out shooting video this evening for the breaking news story of the Larry Craig news story.
Since the actual arrest happened back in June and the story is breaking today, I shot footage of planes landing at the airport and with just my luck the planes were landing with the skyline in the back ground.
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Ok, I know one person that is reading this will be saying “god damn it, he is still joking about the south park shit…” But I’m happy and I don’t really give a shit.
Anyway, it was like a fn hurricane this morning on 494. It is very rare that I have to pull over for safety but today, this morning, I had to pull over for safety since with the 70 mph winds and the forward speed of trying to drive, it was well over CAT 2 Hurricane Force on the front of the truck.
Ok, I slept most of the day yesterday since I pulled an all nighter working on the last of the stock video catalogs for the new site.
I got all the stock video stuff done for the first phase of the new site. So I got up at 9pm-ish and so now it is like 6pm for me and its really 6am.
My schedule is ass backwards again… auggggggghhhhhh But, I was able to be wide awake for a sweet lightning show that hit the metro area this morning.
Here are some of the still photographs of what I got on video. This is from my living room deck .
I was out chasing the severe storms once again pounded the area around Rushford, MN and brought heavy rain and lots of cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning.
Sunday was pretty insane today in Southern Minnesota with record flooding hitting the area. I was out for the whole day covering the event. Here are the videos I shot starting out from the Owatonna, MN area over towards Kellogg, MN and the Rushford, MN area.
I was out chasing tonight doing a local chase. Got on some insane flooding in Minneapolis but before the flooding kicked in, I got this shot.
But it feels good to be back in the saddle with working freelance gigs. It has been so dead for the longest time but now things are starting to turn around for the stringer biz. The down side, it was mostly due to the bridge collapse so I’m only making a living when people are suffering or getting killed. It’s a messed up world… but hey, it’s the news.
Ok, been hella busy here but here is the video from the storms on Monday Night that hit the metro.
Ok, I missed a chase today, several parties and probably pissed off a few people thinking I blew them off when I was still Kentucky fried after covering the whole bridge event. Staying up for 36 hours sucks ass and for the lack of a better example, this was like a hurricane chase.
Huh, how was the bridge collapse like a hurricane chase? Well, I was up for most of the day waiting and working on other stuff then all the sudden this story hits. You go into adrenaline overload shooting footage and just in the go go go shoot shoot shoot, edit feed work work work mode. Before you know it, it’s 24 hours later and the last time you ate was 24 hours ago right before the story broke. But your not done yet. Even though your body is screaming at you to get some sleep, you have to keep on working and pushing yourself beyond the breaking point to finish up several more tasks that clients want completed before you can go to sleep. Tapes need to be dubed and fedexed out and you still don’t have time to eat because you have to go to the store to get food but you can’t stop working… It’s like I’m doing the running man…
And when I do finally get to stop and rest, I can’t!!! I just can’t stop and get any sleep because as I lay down, the phone rings with friends calling. But I have to answer since I know some are looking to see if I got the story or worse yet, was there when it happened. As one friend of mine said, “just checking in because we know your dumb luck and thought you might have been down there…”
When I did finally get to sleep, I did not sleep well and woke up around 4am so all day Friday I was still fried. So combine Friday and Thursday, I was up for 3 days with little to no sleep. It really hit me Thursday night when my brother Chuck told me I had my days ass backwards because tomorrow was Friday. Staying up all night into the next, it was still Wednesday in my head but now it was almost Friday. Now can you figure out why everything around me is kind of a crazy mess?
So, today I just relaxed and slept most of the day since yesterday was still pretty crazy. But it was great to get sleep and wake up then go back to bed and rest some more. I just wish I had the new website up and running before all this happened. Now I’m in overdrive this week to get it up and running because CNN was blasting the world with my URL.
Ok, still dubbing footage and editing photos but there are some dumb mother fuckers that show up after a major event like the 35W disaster. You can’t see shit unless your with the media so go home and watch it on TV. That is what chopper cams are for, your entertainment… Man there was so many people that should not be there that it was not even funny.
Here is the news footage that I shot.
Anyways, here are the photos from tonight.
What is cool about this screen cap. Hint, look in the upper right 🙂
