| "It was celebration time! Our chase was a tremendous success!
On the restaurant television, however, the news was becoming increasingly disheartening.
There were fatalities in Spencer. Our meal didn’t taste so good all of a sudden. It was a scary evening for many South Dakotans on this Saturday, and it was a roller-coaster ride of emotions for my friends and myself. Four storm chasers, who started the day in southwest Nebraska and wound up between Salem and Spencer in southeast South Dakota, caught a storm that they will never forget. Sadly, six souls from Spencer were caught in a storm they will never remember." William Reid, Storm Chaser Agoura Hills, CA |
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