{"id":250,"date":"2018-07-30T22:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T22:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/?p=250"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T17:36:44","slug":"game-of-twister-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/2018\/07\/30\/game-of-twister-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Twister, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re starting to feel like old pros here.\u00a0 This morning we drove to a spot just north of Wakita, OK, a town noteworthy for having been featured in the 1996 film \u201cTwister\u201d.\u00a0 In the movie, the town is destroyed by a tornado.\u00a0 We parked at the end of a closed dirt road, set up our launcher and two AirCore payload strings and sent them off.\u00a0 The only unplanned event occurred when the second balloon prematurely busted out of the launcher \u2013 yikes!\u00a0 The Velcro rip cord wasn\u2019t perfectly aligned and the wind was buffeting the balloon around.\u00a0 A couple of times we heard James say, \u201cI can hear Velcro ripping\u201d and Sonja would say, \u201cOK\u2026.\u201d, not registering the likelihood of the balloon escaping at any minute.\u00a0 Luckily Bianca and Sonja were tying off the balloon neck when it burst out of the tube, so Sonja just hung onto it (but watch everyone jump in the time-lapse video!)\u00a0 Surprise!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sGfbG3xTq34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; 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