We spent Tuesday night back in Norman OK, and Wednesday morning, had a group 
pow-wow.  Under the circumstances of endless miserable blue skies, we voted to 
call it a wrap and head home.  We drove up to OKC to meet the History Channel 
guys for final words and good-byes, then Randy and Sam took off south to TX.  The 
rest of us continued north to Kansas City.  Allan and Brian picked up their cars 
from storage, and then Allan, Chris, and Josh headed out for OH, MI, and MN.  
Brian and Nancy are spending Wednesday night near KC for an early morning 
departure.  Nancy will grab a plane to NY, and Brian will head back to CO by car.
 
So generally speaking, we got skunked by May this year.  We did catch some 
photogenic storms on the first few days of the chase, put some respectable dents 
in Randy's new Hummer, cracked Mike's windshield, but the previous two years (9 
tornadoes one year, 8 the next) made this year a little slow.  On the days we did 
end up chasing, we are thankful for our four remote data assistants at Colorado 
State University.
 
We got a lot of work done while out here, and represented our sponsors well, but 
with this irritating high pressure ridge infesting the central plains, we decided 
that the funding we had left would find a better purpose if we just called it a 
bad year, and ended our team outing a few days early.  There's plenty left for 
the promised disaster relief fund, and we plan on making use of that during 
hurricane season.
 
We always have fun, and we laughed longer and harder this year than any previous 
year.  We're family, and we're all a little "left of center", which helped on 
those endless sunny days.  We met a lot of wonderful people, including the 
television crew for the History Channel (Jason, Dave, Nick, and Diana)... who 
melded nicely into MESO madness and we genuinely enjoyed their company and time 
spent with us.  The pranks were fast and furious, but harmless by nature.  We 
fully intend to tell them about the shrimp we left in the back of their truck... 
in a few days.  Or a week.  Maybe two.  
 
For photos from the chase, visit http://mcwar.org/ then click on the front page 
main photo.  Also, please feel free to sign our guestbook if you wish.
 
Thank you all for riding along, and for the letters and messages of support sent.  
Next year will be our 10th anniversary chasing together as a team (we can barely 
believe it's been TEN YEARS!), and we're already planning something grand.  To 
our friends in the chasing community, we'll see you all at the National Storm 
Chasers Convention this winter.  To the rest of you, we'll resume our regular 
newsletters in June... after all, hurricane season starts June 1.
 
Signing off from Chase '06,
Nancy Bose 

and
Randy Denzer
Allan Detrich
Sam Furman
Chris Howell
Josh Jans
Brian McNoldy
Mike Sutcliffe