[afraidfortherepublic]

I was complaining to my husband to turn off Fox News Friday night because Shepherd Smith was railing at the storm chasers to talk more slowly and be more explanatory to the audience as they chased the storm. The men in the truck already had said that an "entire farmyard" had landed on them -- fence posts and all -- and had broken out all the windows of their vehicle.

I said, "Can you imagine what will happen if those storm chasers get hur, or die, tryinng to cover this for Fox?" I don't know if these were the same men who died, but it seems pretty foolish to me to have people who are in imminet danger of bodily harm to be reporting about it live, on air, while it is happening.

Where's the common sense?

[lurk]

Dear friends, for the sanity of all of us, mind your spelling. Yikes.

[SuziQ]

I don't know if these were the same men who died, but it seems pretty foolish to me to have people who are in imminet danger of bodily harm to be reporting about it live, on air, while it is happening.

No, it wasn't the same people who died. The chasers who died were Tim Sedaris, his son, Paul and Carl Young, a part of their crew, Team Twistex. We've been watching Tim for years on the Stormchasers TV series, and he has never been one of the 'cowboys' who tried to get in the middle of a storm. His crew tried to get in front of the tornadoes to put probes in their paths, in order to get as much information about the structure of the storms as possible. He was in it for the science.

The guys who were reporting for Fox weren't necessarily foolhardy, either. I think this storm was just so unpredictable, there was no way to get away from it.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Where's the common sense?"

When I ponder the term "Storm Chasers", two other words come to mind, "Dumb" and "Asses"...