but as far as the storm chasers, they're doing it for publicity...that equals money....
i know, but still it must be exciting...
I’d love to see a tornado...from a distance...also would like to see golf ball size hale....
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Click the links at the following link and to view some of their videos relating to storms.
Been through tree tornados and soft ball size hail. My dog would not go in her dog house so I had to go get her, a soft ball size peice of hail hurts like hell when hit in the head! I was caught in the midle and had to go back for a trash can lid! Our poor dog was bruised from ear to tail!
Is all pretty exciting until it’s headed for your house.
Luckily we were always missed. When younger it was go outside to watch! But now it’s head for the root cellar.
“...the storm chasers, they’re doing it for publicity...money....”
That’s a sort of jaded take on this. These men who were killed were able to make some $ by doing their storm chasing but most folks don’t. And it’s extraordinary dangerous, as we’ve seen, to put one’s self into for that $.
I had a friend who was fascinated by meteorology and would go where, say, a hurricane was expected, simply because he loved to watch it unfold. He never made a dime on it.
The ones I see on tv are enough for me.
LOL.
Move to Tulsa. You can see em plenty.
Best to watch from the edge and outside clouds. A tornadoe only has life from its host, the cloud formation.
Watched a funnel form between Broken Arrow and Tulsa. It didn’t touch down but it was kewel.
When hail was predicted I’d drive downtown to the towers and park inthe garage.
Insurance doesn’t cover hail.
Not all chasers are doing it for fame. Many are doing it to provide valuable data to the NWS that is used to expand lead times in warnings. The radars employed by the NWS are blind below 300 ft. If there were no chasers or spotters there would be no advanced warnings for tornadoes. Tim and his team also collected data on different prototype aircraft skins to find one that would decrease the damage taken by commercial aircraft that happened to be caught in a hail storm. To label all storm chasers as people seeking fame and fortune is the same as labeling all fire fighters, police, and military personnel the same way. I met and spoke with Mr. Samaras, fame and fortune were the furthest things from his mind. His number one goal was to improve the warning systems and to save lives.