Storm chasers headed to “tornado alley” on Sunday to honor Bill Paxton, the actor who put them on the map when he starred in “Twister.”
So, after hearing of his death, they put him on their Stormscope map by coordinating their locations.
Each dot is a storm chaser’s GPS.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins