Shawna Helt and I were married at the end of a storm chase yesterday (Thursday June 19) in the Konza Prairie near Manhattan, Kansas. We had talked about doing this on a storm chase for a couple months, and hoped we could pull it off on our chase vacation. We did it!

I am so delighted now to have Shawna as my wife!

Thanks to Rick Schmidt, Dick McGowan, and Jim Reed for sharing their pictures above!

Thanks to Aaron Blaser (in blue Hawaiian shirt) for officiating the ceremony and coordinating things!

And thanks to all our chaser friends who could attend on very short notice after driving through several heavy rain cores to be with us:

Aaron and Wendy Blaser
Kyle Gerstner
Doug Nelson
Rick Schmidt
Dick McGowan
Darin Brunin
Evan Bookbinder
Katherine Bay
Jim Reed
Robin Lorenson
Mike Phelps

Many thanks, too, to all those who have sent us their congratulations!

- Jon Davies 6/20/08