moved among the ruins, recording everything, from the direction and power of the tornado shown by the houses and trees it had twisted to splinters, to chickens which were exhibited to him as having been stripped of their feathers while being carried in the "suck" of the cyclone.
[1] He visited professional publishers in an attempt to have them handle a book called Elements of Meteorology, Part One.
[2] It was said that Tice was a "local celebrity" because he "made prophecy of the weather his specialty, and announced his determination to reduce it to a scientific basis."
"[2]Tice was principal of Laclede School and also secretary of the St. Louis public-school system from 1849 to 1854 and was superintendent pro tem from 1851 to 1852.
[1] For a time he edited a St. Louis newspaper called The Missourian, where he was known as "Old Probs" and, according to a fellow journalist, "was always dreaming about the weather and watching the planets.
"[3] After his time as editor of The Missourian, he was editor of the newspaper The Democrat and was called "The Sage of Cheltenham" for his ability to predict the weather, and his self-education and mastery of Euclid, Algebra, history and Entomology, as well as being fluent in German, Spanish and French languages, and the ability to read Greek and Latin.