Posted on 05/18/2018 8:39:25 AM PDT by simpson96
It’s all fun and games until people get killed.
No one gets killed, you just engage in cute banter with Helen Hunt with cows and tractor parts flying all around you, and everything works out fine in the end.
Even before the movie “Twister”, I had heard of storm chasing. But back then, it was primarily professionals and meteorology students doing it.
I would love to go out on one of the tours. I’d like to see a tornado.
Of course having said that, I’d like the tornado to ideally be in a large large field where no homes are destroyed and no people are killed or injured.
Sign me up.
It would beat anything going on in my existence.
What amazed me most about that video is in the lower righthand corner of the screen. A guy is lying on the ground and then sits up.
I’ll not understand how we didn’t get swept away by the winds.
As a life long mid-westerner, always loved the summer storm as it moves through. Temps drop 15 degrees in like 2 minutes, refreshing ozone air smell, everything gets super green, the initial pitter-pat of rain. But then the golf ball sized hail machineguns your vehicle, sheer winds dropping trees and pulling the shingles off your roof, lightning strike takes out your power grid. Not so fun.
What amazed me most about that video is in the lower righthand corner of the screen. A guy is lying on the ground and then sits up.
Ill not understand how we didnt get swept away by the winds.
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In think he was swept away and ended up in that position.
I want to drive the Jeep pickup.
Helen optional.
People do it for the thrill of knowing it might be deadly. Like skydiving, car racing, rock climbing, etc. My thrill is solo hiking in wintertime. If I slip and break my leg in zero weather while ten miles from the trailhead, things get dicey real quick.
I've had enough storm excitement to last a lifetime, thank you!
He just left a hardware store with a tube of Super Glue in his back pocket which broke when he was knocked down.🤡
I attended college at OU (Norman, Oklahoma) in the sixties. When a tornado warning (one sighted) in our local area, we would load up a car, buy some beer, and go looking. Lots of fun.
“I think he was swept away and ended up in that position.”
True, very true.
That will teach them for cutting someone off.
Way back in 1970-71 I was a mechanical engineering student at the University of Oklahoma. The meteorology dept was in the same school so they would come by at times and recruit spotters. It paid $1.50 an hour and more if you got good pictures. It was a way to make ends meet and we usually didn't have to go far from Norman to do the job.
BTW the movie Twister was an abomination with the way they had tornadoes sneaking up on unsuspecting people. Every TV station in Texas and Oklahoma had extensive weather coverage even then. We would get a roughly 1-2 hour heads up regarding severe weather.
Wow, see my post 18. I never read the comments before I posted. Same thing with us. It would empty out our floor at Johnson Tower whenever storms were approaching.
It would be fun to convert a military MRAP into a storm chaser. Make the windows bigger, put in padded seats with good straps. Go for the vortex.
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