Hello again Thanks for all the reviews. I hope you like the this chapter the storm begins. ;-)
Lord Pata: another interesting chapter, Darren sure had a really busy life and still does, and we learned more about the storms, great job. Also it was funny see Gatomon climbing the pole of the wind chimes and batted at it, she is one playful kitty isn't she:)
xxnewmikexx:great story.
Romance man: Keep it up.
Kay OMG! Loved it! And I think he is hinting that they should stay inside for this weekend!
Disclaimer Don't own Digimon, Channel 11.
Ch. 4 Let It Snow?
Waking up early on Thursday TK climbed out of bed and walked over to the window while he wore only his forest green and golden yellow pajama pants. As he opened the blinds to hopingly see a small blanket of snow the only thing that poured into the room was the seemingly quite darkness from outside. Tilting his head to one side, he looked upon the green grass that was still growing faster than he has ever seen it grow in late October. "No snow." TK whispered to himself as he walked over to a digital weather monitor that was picking up a signal from a transmitter from outside. That can't be right. TK thought as he looked confusingly at the monitor's readings. The screen was showing temperatures in the mid 50's at four in the morning. I don't get it the average high for this time of year is 50 and that usually occurs in the late afternoon. Then looking at a histogram of the Barometric pressure it showed a sharp and steady decline. It already dropped one inch of mercury from last night. The last time I remember that great of a difference was when that mega storm from last year ripped through the Twin Cities. Maybe Darren is right; it might be a long stretch for snow, but it could happen with these readings. Snow or not all of us still need to be at the set at seven this morning.
"Are you alright TK?" Kari yawned as she rolled over in bed facing TK's direction.
"I'm ok it's just that I'm a little worried that what Darren said about that storm in 1991. Something about right now just… just feels so strange. I don't know if these readings are because of a malfunction… or that something very bizarre is about to happen…" TK sighed while dragging out his last word. Then as he tried to recollect the words, which Darren said about the similarities of this year and 1991 a subtle chill flowed through his spine.
"Come on TK you have the day off from work even though the weather might be unsettled right now, Darren along with the other meteorologists will keep the public and us up-to-date with what's going on. Today we're going to have fun; even if it requires looking back on some gloomy memories at least we won't need to worry about dying." Kari replied as she climbed out of bed, walked over to TK, and wrapped her arms around his exposed upper body.
Turning around in her arms, TK faced Kari. "I guess your right… its force of habit," TK replied as he leaned into Kari and kissing her.
(On set a few hours later)
"OK let's take it from the top… again!" Jonathan the director yelled. Suddenly a loud wail of wind began blowing. "Hey I thought I said cut! Stop with the blasted sound effects!"
"Those aren't sound effects." One of the soundboard staff yelled back to Jonathan while looking frantically over the board for a switch that was on.
"What do you mean, that's one of the sound effects right?" Jonathan bellowed back as his face boiled a bright red.
"Yes I won the bet. Pay up suckers." Someone shouted in the distance by the entrance of the set. "I guess one of those worthless weather men is right for once."
Glancing over at Kari, TK gave her a confused look. Then as they walked over to the entrance of the building, someone else shouted. "This is bullshit. On a one and a million shot, it's starting to snow outside. Here is your blasted money."
"It's snowing outside?" TK whispered to Kari as they walked over to the doorway. Standing in the entrance a wintry gust of wind sent an icy feeling through both of there minds.
"He was right?" Kari said back to TK as she held tight to one of his hands.
Then turning around to the staff in the building TK shouted, "Does anyone have a computer and connection to the internet."
Slowly walking up Matt waved over at his brother. "Hey bro if you don't mind venturing outside a few feet, my bands bus has DSL and wireless connection." Matt casually said.
"Thanks! Where is the bus?" TK said as TK, Kari and the Digimon walked over to Matt.
"We're parked at the other entrance to the set, come on."
Following Matt outside into the wintry weather a freezing reminder kept reminding all of them that winter was upon them as a blast of wind blew through their summer like costumes. Climbing into the band bus, a large plasma TV was set on the back wall along with laptops that were lining the sides of the bus. "May I," TK asked as he reached for one of the laptops.
"Go ahead." Matt answered as he picked up a laptop from the desk also. Waiting for the computers to boot up a hard gale force wind blew against the side of the bus causing it to sway back and forth violently.
"Finally!" TK remarked as the welcome screen appeared on laptops screen. Logging onto the Internet he scooted over to channel 11's website. As the radar images quickly loaded onto the screen, TK's face filled with shock. Putting his fist over his mouth, he began to mumble something.
"What… what's going on?" Matt asked as he leaned over and looked at his brother's screen.
"The storm it's… it's huge." TK finally spitted out after a few radar loops had passed by. "Kari, look!" Then pointing to the screen TK handed the laptop over to Kari.
"What's going on? Patamon and Gatomon shouted as they tried to look at the screen of the laptop.
"Am I seeing that right? I've heard of low pressure centers doing this but I never expected to see something like this." Kari said somewhat confused by what she was seeing.
"WHAT'S GOING ON?" Matt and the Digimon shouted trying to break TK's and Kari's small talk back and forth.
"OK Take a look for yourself." TK said as Kari turned the laptop screen to the rest of them. As they looked at the loop playing a familiar figure from the coast seemed to be rotating around slowly on the Midwest.
"Is… is that what I think it is." Matt said as looked as a hurricane looking storm was rotating extremely slowly in the center of the United States. "I thought hurricanes happened on the coasts?"
"They do. This isn't a hurricane it's the remnants of one that was reenergized by a strong cold front." TK said as he remembered the info Darren had told them the night before. Suddenly a ring began to come from TK's cell phone. Pulling it out of his pocket, he flipped it open. "Hello, TK speaking."
After a subtle pause, a familiar voice began speaking. "Hey TK, how's it going." Darren said from the other end of the line as a howl blew in the background.
"Funny you ask. Did you see the latest radar images?" TK said trying to keep a good attitude.
"Yea I saw them." Darren replied in a subdued tone.
"What's… what's wrong?" TK said as he began pacing back and forth in the roomy space of the coach band bus.
"What images did you see?" Darren said back as a louder howl began to overwhelm his voice.
"I saw the regional radar that's about it so far." TK said as he walked back over to the laptop.
"Look at the national visible satellite and radar loops." Darren replied his voice barely noticeable over the howl.
As TK brought up the national satellite and radars, he fell into a chair he was slowly pulling up from behind him. "How big is this storm?" he replied flabbergasted as the eye of the storm was just south of Iowa. The whole storm stretched from the top of Minnesota down to Arkansas and from Michigan to the western side of South Dakota.
"I guess you… saw… magnitude… this one." Darren said as his voice came in and out between the howls. "Do you guys mind… if… I come and see the… filming of the movie. Jason wanted… me… out because… I… was too involved with this storm already. That and he… wanted me to deliver some… papers to you."
"What are you driving?" TK bluntly asked after Darren finished.
"I have one of the company vans. I think I'm just about to the set if the directions are…" Suddenly a loud explosion erupted form the other end of the line.
"Darren… Darren… DARREN!" TK shouted into his cell phone as it went dead. Then frantically dialing the station he turned to Kari. "I think Darren crashed."
"Hello this is Jason."
"Hey Jason, its TK, can you dial up where the van Darren's driving is." TK said trying to keep a calm voice.
"Yea one sec…" Jason replied as he began typing. "He's on Highway 46 just past the intersection of Cots Avenue. It seems like he's standing still."
"He crashed. I'm going to see if he's alright it's not that far from here. Thanks." TK replied as he ended the call and began walking to the exit of the bus.
"Wait!" Kari yelled running over to TK.
Thanks for reading and Please review. Therehave been errors in grammer and spelling, but I'm not perfect in English in any way shape or form. I like theweather overEnglish.
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