redhelmet13
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This was posted in stormtrack.org this morning. I did not know Eric very well, I have run into him out there though. Eric attempted suicide and succombed to the attempt.
I am deeply saddened to her this news....
"All we are is dust in the wind" - Kansas
With a broken heart I relay that Eric passed away early this morning at 2:00 AM. He was surrounded by family and friends. He is survived by his wife Nina, his two boys, Chris and Sean, and his mother, father, and sister, as well as other immediate family. Eric was twenty-nine years old.
The last two hours of Eric’s life were filled with sounds of joy and happy memories. From midnight to 1:00 AM, a few of us sat around with our laptops and found pictures of Eric and read stories from the boards out loud to one another, and to him. I played my old DVD specifically to find comments from Eric, such as how after a long-lived and frustrating supercell finally produced a tornado at the moment he and Brian Fant discovered a leaky front wheel. Eric said: “We threw the supercell off guard by acting like we had a flat tire.”
Eric’s hospital room, then, looked like nothing if not a motel room with five chasers preparing for tomorrow’s action. Eric would have loved it.
Around 1:00 AM, he grew quiet and his breathing slowed. His family and friends gathered around and held his hand and helped him to the next plane in peace.
I’ll miss my friend and chase partner terribly. I don’t understand how something so awful happens to someone so full of life and light, and who touched so many people he hadn’t even met. I want to write more about this soon, but today I don’t have the energy.
Thanks again, everyone, for the well-wishes. We’re planning a chaser gathering in Eric’s honor very soon and we’ll post information about that when it’s finalized.
Amos
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Amos Magliocco
Cyclone Road
I am deeply saddened to her this news....
"All we are is dust in the wind" - Kansas
With a broken heart I relay that Eric passed away early this morning at 2:00 AM. He was surrounded by family and friends. He is survived by his wife Nina, his two boys, Chris and Sean, and his mother, father, and sister, as well as other immediate family. Eric was twenty-nine years old.
The last two hours of Eric’s life were filled with sounds of joy and happy memories. From midnight to 1:00 AM, a few of us sat around with our laptops and found pictures of Eric and read stories from the boards out loud to one another, and to him. I played my old DVD specifically to find comments from Eric, such as how after a long-lived and frustrating supercell finally produced a tornado at the moment he and Brian Fant discovered a leaky front wheel. Eric said: “We threw the supercell off guard by acting like we had a flat tire.”
Eric’s hospital room, then, looked like nothing if not a motel room with five chasers preparing for tomorrow’s action. Eric would have loved it.
Around 1:00 AM, he grew quiet and his breathing slowed. His family and friends gathered around and held his hand and helped him to the next plane in peace.
I’ll miss my friend and chase partner terribly. I don’t understand how something so awful happens to someone so full of life and light, and who touched so many people he hadn’t even met. I want to write more about this soon, but today I don’t have the energy.
Thanks again, everyone, for the well-wishes. We’re planning a chaser gathering in Eric’s honor very soon and we’ll post information about that when it’s finalized.
Amos
__________________
Amos Magliocco
Cyclone Road
