Posted on 05/02/2022 10:08:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
Too bad, you really need some training to storm chase and you need a vehicle equipped to handle weather extremes, first and foremost excellent rain traction tires.
Sad typically hydroplaning is cause by going too fast and/or low tire pressure. Whatever the reason it’s still sad.
A birdsong of time
Go to hell jackass
That dude is dedicated.
I've done it....................
I see no need for people to be "chasing" storms and tornados...with todays drones and computers everything can be recorded while back at a studio....
so sorry for the loss of young people but the older people should have never encouraged them to do this...making it seem like such an adventure...
they should not have been there.....
I see it more as an equipment problem (possibly) combined with a driver not as skilled as you might hope. You don’t need a tornado to have a hydroplaning situation.
Hammer, meet nail. And far too many chasers are amateurs who don’t know what they’re doing. Chasing tornadoes is best learned at the elbow of someone who’s experienced and can show you the ropes before striking out on your own.
Had a former son-in-law who wanted to go chasing in Mississippi when I lived there. My answer was no/hell no, because a) He had no experience and I had very little; b) many tornadoes in the Magnolia State occur at night, and virtually all of them are rain-wrapped and c) in a state with lots of hills and pine trees, twisters are even more difficult to spot, especially when they drop from a low cloud base, which happens more often than not. And finally, Mississippi doesn’t have the best road network, so chances for a crash in bad weather are further increased.
As far as I know he never went chasing; my daughter was smart to divorce him, for a number of reasons. I’ve thought about going on a chasing tour (with an experienced operator), but I have no desire to do it on my own.
LOL...he’s probably got them headphone thingies on! Is he ever going to be surprised when he turns around!
I guess I don’t have an issue seeing one as long as I am not the one trying to get close enough to look up into it, but from a distance...I saw three waterspouts at the same time when I was at sea, but they were far off in the distance and they disappeared pretty quickly.
I ain’t chasing the blamed things though. That seems like asking for it.
Ah. I missed that they were on the way home, the thing probably dissipated before they could get to it.
I had the impression they were zooming towards it, all eyes on the horizon and not on the road.
“Intense” / amazing drone vid of the Andover tornado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT6EnuaiYdE
Note how erratic it is when this size.
Unless the tornado was in Ukraine, you have the wrong link................
IOW, the driver was going too fast for conditions.
(((Jami Gertz)))
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