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I'm trying to study even more in meteorology and storms by doing this story. Thank you for that comment. Finally, I'm bringing in some of the other Digidestined. If you want a definition for any term or clarification of something with in Chasing the Perfect Storm, it's a short review away, and I'll be happy to add it in the next chapter.
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Chasing the Perfect Storm:
The Inconceivable F6
By FocusR.
Ch. 6: When is Tai Calm before a Storm?
Pulling her cell phone out of her small purse, Kari quickly dialed Tai and the rest of the Digidestined. "Hold on a second TK, it's still ringing." Kari replied as TK laid his head on her shoulder. After a few more dull rings, someone noticed the other end.
"Hello… Kari?" Tai shouted into the phone as the wind howled and thunder cracked in the background. Kari quickly pulled the phone away from her ear and taped a button that blasted Tai's voice over a small speaker on the side.
"Hey Tai, how are you doing? Am I missing out on any of the action?" Kari said into the phone as she wrapped her free arm around TK.
"What happened to you," Tai yelled through the speaker as a loud explosion erupted in the background. "I thought the play only last two hours, it already four in the morning!"
"Well we sorta had a few mishaps." Kari giggled.
"Mishaps, what mishaps!" Tai screamed through the speaker. "Wait what do you mean 'we', it's just you and Gatomon right?"
"Hey Tai." TK quickly shouted into small cell phone Kari was holding.
"TK? What the… what are you doing there?" Tai shouted as another loud crack echoed in the background.
Kari quickly pulled the phone closer to there ears so they could hear Tai explode when Kari replied, "Don't you remember you gave Hawkmon the tickets this morning for the show along with the CD and Forecast."
"What I didn't! YOLIE! What did you give to Hawkmon this morning to give to Davis for TK?" Tai bellowed to the vehicle they were driving.
Almost instantly in the background, Yolie shouted back, "What you gave me the CD, the forecast, and an envelope with tickets for the Park Theater."
"I didn't give any envelope with tickets to you." Tai shouted back.
"Yes you did, and it had someone else's handwriting on it. I think it was Kari's," Yolie shouted as enormous loud boom erupted in the background.
TK turned to Kari and smiled as he gave her a pleasant peck on the cheek. "So it was you, who set this up. You sly little angel," TK tenderly whispered, leaning closer to her.
Just then, there was a quiet awkward silence over the cell. All of a sudden, Tai erupted, "Kari!" Tai bellowed over the phone "I thought I told you to stay away from TK until the restringing order was lifted…"
"Well Tai" TK commented cutting Tai off in mid sentence. "It's well… sorta taken care of."
"What how did you get it lifted?" Tai questioned in a somewhat normal voice as the tires squealed.
"Woo Ken, slow down." Sora shouted in the background. "Don't try to kill us; I can't see a thing out the window."
"I can see fine, calm down Sora." Ken said back with his usual composed voice.
"Well… sorta… well… I quit channel 6 when… they were about to… well… arrest Kari." TK stammered as he looked out the window. Three dark wall clouds rampaged toward them firing flashes of lighting out ahead of them.
"They were going to WHAT!"
"Calm down Tai!" Kari calmly said to the phone. "We're alright except for a few bum and cuts."
"What did you do to her, TK?" Tai bellowed with an intimidating snap.
"No Tai, all the injuries happened to TK. I'm alright, all we had was… a little scare." Kari replied, as she tenderly looked up at TK. "Where are you anyway? It sounds like it's a blast out there."
"Were just outside of the Twin Cites, driving down Highway… Where are we?" Tai called out into there vehicle.
"We're on Highway 35 heading south." Yolie shouted as a deafening crack echoed from the cell.
"Highway 35 heading south, I think we just passed Lakeville a little while ago. This thing is larger than we first expected. Radar shows we have two strong squall lines possibly merging together over the Twin Cities." Tai quickly commented as furious taps on a keyboard began pouring out of the cell. "Check this, our latest readings are showing that the Barometric Pressure has dropped 73mb in just the last three hours down to 935mb at the airport. Temperatures on the south side of the storm are about 40 degrees lower than just north of it. That's just in the storm to the south of the cities. Looking at some data from some other surface plots from around the state its showing similar tends with the other squall." Tai animatedly said as a loud roar of thunder exploded in the background.
"Wait a second Tai. You're telling me that this storm has dropped the air pressure around it by 73mb. That sounds more like the pressure reading of the eye of a category 4 hurricane, not a Midwest storm, unless…" Kari looked up at TK then out the small window at the encroaching storms. "Unless the tropical storm from the gulf is gaining strength by the abnormally warm temp and there is a strong Alberta clipper is coming down from Canada… it's possible but not highly probable. The thing that gets me is the possibility of two strong storms merging would be catastrophic. Wait has any of them gone tornadic?" Kari questioned into the cell as the four of them made their way up to the exit.
"Like you wouldn't believe, the thing about all these storms are seam fixed in there spots, but they're moving unbelievably slow, at about 2 miles an hour. Sort of reminds me of hurricane Ophelia and Wilma back in 2005 and how slow they were. A few Doppler estimates have shown in some spots rain falling at; get this, 3 feet an hour. We've hit spots where it literally looks like horizontal buckets of water were dumping from the sky not drops of rain. Hail the best we've see is softball, luckily there was an underpass where we could…"
"Come on Tai I asked about Tornados not everything else." Kari pressed cutting Tai off, as they walked into the mangled lobby. Looking over at the huge crystal chandelier that had crashed down where TK was laying earlier, the thought of what could have happened sent an unsettling chill down Kari's spine.
"Tornados wise well, we've seen seven F3 tornados and dozens of F1 and F2 tornadoes along with about 35 funnel clouds. This thing will be close to breaking the record if they merge. There is even the chance to see those elusive F5's. Hey I'm not…" Tai commented as shuffling went on in the background.
"Hey Kari, hey TK it's Ken, what all happened at the Theater Park?" Ken asked when he finally pilfered the phone from Tai.
"Hey Ken." Kari and TK replied in unison as their Digimon climbed onto there shoulders.
"Hey Ken." Their Digimon said moments later.
Taking the small cell into his hand TK began talking. "Well let's see here, first we had a little run in with cops then that little storm tried to get the best of me when the theater lobby couldn't handle the beating any further. Otherwise were doing well." As they walked out of the theater and into the streets, people were in a frenetic rush to find somewhere safe. Looking up around them walls of clouds surrounding them, TK replied awestruck by the amazing features of the fearsome storms. "Ken you wouldn't believe this."
"What… what's going on over there?" Ken hastily commented as a booming crack of thunder rang out in the background.
"KEN, SLOW DOWN!" Tai shouted, as the tries squealed louder than ever.
"I… I see two wall clouds on the leading edge that stretch the distance of all the squall lines. There are at least five separate billowing Cumulonimbuses' on each of the lines. Each of them has to at least be 7 kilometers high if not higher before they flatten out. I think a few of them have blasted into the stratosphere. Lighting is flashing out in front of them along with strikes all around the bases. There are also… 19… 20… 23… at least 25 micro bursts coming down from these clouds." TK said flabbergasted as he slowly made a small rotation gazing at their might. "Wait a second. Kari, look!" TK shouted as a small twisting funnel cloud daunting crept towards the helpless ground below. "Ken to the south we see a definite funnel cloud creeping its way down… Never mind I see the dust cloud!" Slowly the white twister darkened as it began suck earth and debris into its malicious wrath.
"TK come on and move we got to get going. That twister is coming this way." Kari yelled as she tugged on TK's soaked shirt.
"What's going on over there?" Ken yelled into the cell phone as a small roar of a freight train began building.
Snatching the cell away form TK, Kari flipped it shut ending the call. "Come on my SUV is just inside over… here…" Kari's voice trailed off as she saw the small parking garage she left her car had collapse into a smoking pile of concrete.
Turning to Patamon, Gatomon whispered, "I never liked that thing anyway. It always used too much gas and it was dreadfully painful to ride in."
"Well at least this is a new way you can save on gas." Patamon joked to Gatomon before he flew onto TK's shoulder.
"TK where is your car." Kari quickly asked as she grasped his arms.
"Ouch…" TK exclaimed, almost instantly Kari let go.
"Sorry…" Kari solemnly replied as she slowly released TK's arms. "Where did you park your car?"
Taking a large gulp TK's face turned beat red. "Uh my car… is… over here." He said as a touch of humiliation floated in his voice.
Turning to TK's ear, Patamon whispered, "If Kari's vehicle is smashed I'm afraid of what ours looks like."
Walking over to the small outdoor parking lot, his small two-door car seemed almost untouched by the wrath of the storm. "What the… I don't believe it." The only damage that was visible to all of them was a perfectly round three-inch creator on the trunk, besides the major rust and former dents from upset viewers. "Well here she is." TK calmly replied.
"I'd rather put my bets on running after it, than riding in that thing." Gatomon quickly snickered after she saw the rusty sedan.
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