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Today was a very busy day. I was out shooting for The Weather Channel this morning and this afternoon. We got hit with over a foot of snow at my place in Burnsville and the average area snowfall was about a foot, some more, some less.

3/11/2006 Back home and working on getting several projects caught up and out of the way. I did get my photographs back from the lab this afternoon from the disposable underwater camera. Click on the thumbnail images to view the larger files of the Crystal River Manatees Scuba trip.

3/10/2006 I am on my way home from Florida this evening to get back to work due to a very active weather pattern taking shape for this weekend and next week in the upper Midwest. I wanted to stay and go diving some more but I have to wait 24 hour’s after my last dive before I can fly home so I decided to head back now or miss the whole weather show up north.

I finished up my scuba tests today and got my license to have fun. After I got done at Scuba Quest today I went and and hung out with Brian this afternoon and got some more images of the dive from him yesterday. His video of the dive is just sweet. He got the Manatees to swim right by him a couple of times as they were swimming around the three sisters area. Here are a few more photographs he took of me goofing off.

This morning before I went to go and take my open water exam for my scuba diving, I was on the Joe Madison show, The Black Eagle at www.JoeMadison.com . I had a great time on his national radio show which is on in DC as well as XM Satellite Radio.

It was great to be able to get my idea out about the National Hurricane Center cone of the strike path and the ban on sale of alcohol. It is pretty simple, if your area is in the cone of the path of the storm track, the sale of alcohol should be banned and a mandatory evacuation of all non residents. Katrina did a lot to wake people up but it only takes a few more near misses for people to become complacent.

Then, after the morning radio interview, it was off to Crystal River Florida. This place is great!!! I was scuba diving with some Manatees today and just had a blast. Got down to 50 feet on my second dive and got to the entrance of one of the caves. I could not go in because I am not trained for cave diving yet but it was a blast diving with my buddy Brian and Eric from Scuba Quest in Sarasota. Here is a video capture that Brian took of me, I am totally hooked on Scuba diving now.

I’m in Florida and taking care of another dream and bucket list item, getting my scuba diving training. So much fun.

3/6/2006 P.M. Just watched The Weather Channel show Storm Stories and I found that they now have the Hurricane Rita shows out now for the Coast Guard Rescue’s Storm Stories. It look’s like they had about 10 minutes or more, of my 2005 Hurricane footage in both of their shows about Hurricane Rita. SWEET!!!! Can’t wait to see the Hurricane Wilma show sometime soon.

3/5/2006 Today was a snowy day in the Twin Cities as an inch of new heavy wet snow fell and made driving very dangerous around the metro area while I was out playing Weather Channel Photographer again. I was out on the big wreck of the day shooting aftermath footage of a flat bed semi truck that flipped over on the Highway 52 south entrance from downtown St. Paul.

3/5/2006 Out playing Weather Channel Photographer

3/3/2006 Still very busy with the NolaKatrinaDVD site. I will be doing a couple radio interviews next week regarding the footage. I’ll post more when I know more about them and the time and stations there on. Trying to get all the video for WeatherPaparazzi.com up now and plan my Scuba trip and shoot video and take care of the Nola stuff. I never thought I would be this busy when I started out years ago but it is a good thing.

3/1/2006 Very busy with the NolaKatrinaDVD site. Getting everything setup for the site for the DVD launch.

2/28/2006 Out shooting video for The Weather Channel today. It was another warm day in the metro area. Kind of funny seeing people running around with shorts on this time of year with snow still on the ground.