1. January 26, 2015
402 West main St.
Somerset, PA 15501
To whom this may concern:
Tom and I have known each other since 2001 from college at Cal of University of PA
as meteorology majors. His strong background includes storm intercept in the mid-west, along
with individual interest in the flood and blizzards of 1996, weather shadowing for WJAC TV
Feb 2nd
, 1998, Salisbury Tornadoes (May 31st
and June 2nd
, 1998), Tropical storm Dennis
(September 1999), Gustnado (July 31st
, 2000), Forecaster from 2001-2002, Midwest storm
chase May 2002, Blizzard of 2003 (February 2003), Hurricane Isabelle (September 2003),
Hurricane Katrina (August 2005)- category 2 hurricane, Tropical storm Rita (September
2005) and most recently tropical storm Ernesto in 2006. He has written many newspaper
articles on topics such as weather disasters. Based on Tom's education and background with
GPS, radar and storm chasing, I believe that he will make an excellent addition to a company
with these needs.
7742 Enfield Avenue, apt #102,
Norfolk, VA 23505

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Sincerely,
Bob Ashbaugh, Petty Officer of Aviation Forecasting for the US NAVY