Thursday, May 27th, 2021
11:10am
Washita, Oklahoma
“While we wait for this magical system to organize, let’s get some B-roll of the Titan,” Jacob said. “You keep tracking the nonexistent system, Cullen.”
Edward watched as Jacob parked the Titan and he stood in front of the vehicle with Quil filming him. Seth was in the van with Edward, filming him. “So, what are you looking for, Dr. Cullen?” Seth asked.
“I’m tracking the front and watching the isobars to see if there’s any rotation,” Edward said, clicking the mouse around the computer screen. Seth zoomed in on the computer screen. The information made no sense to Seth, but clearly to Edward there was something that caught his attention. Edward pointed onto the screen with a smile, “There’s some building activity about twenty miles from here. Do you see the growing cloud tops? The higher cloud tops, the likelihood that it will be a severe storm. This is prime weather for explosive storms.”
“How did you get into weather?” Seth questioned. “You seem awfully young to be so accomplished.”
“I’ve always been interested in weather. I grew up in Illinois, in the suburbs of Chicago. We had our share of tornadoes and scary weather. Whenever that happened, I was glued to the television, watching as the updates crawled along the bottom of the screen. My dad always hoped that I’d become a medical doctor, following in his footsteps. The whole fear of blood put a kibosh on that dream pretty quickly,” Edward explained with a quiet chuckle. “Instead, I sailed through high school and undergrad. I graduated from college at nineteen and was accepted to my graduate program shortly after that. While I was getting my doctorate, I got married and had a baby girl, which slowed my forward momentum.”
“You miss her?” Seth smiled. “I couldn’t even imagine …”
“She, my Lilybug, is the light of my life,” Edward breathed.
