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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -39/+90Jebus! No wonder the world hates rednecks.
Yeeehaw! *BEEP* You see that?! *BEEP* *BEEP* Yaaa! Git the camera! *BEEP* Git the tornado! *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*! - Beej, on 10/12/2007, -5/+48I think the level of profanity was appropriate for the event.
- gunner2398, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37So you have about 2 minutes of watching the guys' windshield wipers and 2 average looking shots at a tornado that lasts only for a few seconds.
Interesting if you live outside of tornado alley I suppose, but those of that live in tornado alley this isn't a big deal at all. - thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31I hate commercials.
http://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/us/2006/04/16/vosot.inside.the.tornado.stringer.ws.wmv - umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -9/+34Those guys weren't brave, they were idiots. Skilled chasers would not end up in the middle of a debris cloud.
Check out http://www.mesoscale.ws/ , Eric Nguyen's weather photography page (Spring '06 will be up soon) and Doswell's guide for safe and effective storm chasing:
http://webserv.chatsystems.com/~doswell/chasesums/Chase_safety.html
Summary: Storm chasing is not dangerous unless you are an idiot. - jawadde, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24no digg. Wildly overrated. Do a google video search on "tornado" or "storm chasers" and you'll get at least the same quality videos : http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=tornado. Here's a VERY cool one of a funnel forming a few hunderd yards away from the camera : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2179463398999135184&q=tornado chaser&pl=true
- UrbenLegend, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Well, they're the only people who are brave enough (or stupid enough) to take amazing footages like these.
I dunno about you, but if I was in the middle of that, I'd be cussing also. - CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Kinda awesome, but no digg because there was no flying cow.
- pr0t0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20This video reminds of the old joke:
Q: What's the last thing many rednecks say just before they die?
A: Hey y'all...watch this!
This is what happens when you make cable television available to the undereducated. They see Twister (or Jackass, or Pro Wrestling, etc.) and then they try to emulate it.
I'm with Ziffle, pure Darwin Award candidates. Dopes. - rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -24/+40City-people are so stuck up. Like you don't curse?
- iWorks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15no flying bovine... no digg
- etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Looks like they're driving through fog.
- santiago1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12 I concur (w/ Gunner2398).... how exactly is this "insane"?
yawn.... - TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16I don't think the point was about the swearing. I believe the point was the sheer stupidity of amateur storm spotters (aka: thrill seekers) thinking that it's a good idea to grab a camera and drive into a massive storm with debris swirling about. Natural selection seems to be going a good job. ;-)
- NYC10004, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I was expecting some insane Tornado Alley carnage- like flying animals, 18wheelers, houses, wicked witches on bicylces. What type of weak Tornado was that? Give me my 2minuets and 38 seconds back
- mhanley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Now THAT was awesome!
- Hergio, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Amazing footage? Can someone give me the time frame in this video where it was 'insane'? All I am looking for is where this video differs from any other crazy storm chasers video.
- Mugros, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17awesome? insane footage?
I am only seeing a white wall , some debris and hearing wind. - ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Brave? They're Darwin Award candidates.
- zaclohrenz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Living in Oklahoma, its true what gunner says.
It really isn't a joke around here, that folks stand on their porches watching the tornadoes go by. Nope, thats actually what people do around here. No big deal at all, until you get to F4s :D - kiddailey, on 10/12/2007, -13/+20It's sad that you got dugg for such an ignorant statement. A country accent does not mean that someone is a redneck. These people may be huge risk-takers, but conversely, they have amassed a large amount of information regarding severe storms that has helped significantly in the understanding and prediction of them -- which translates to saving lives.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13The people who shot the video featured on this Digg and on CNN are not storm chasers or storm spotters. They are idiots. Here in Indiana we have trained storm spotters working under the direction of the national weather service who spot actual weather conditions. They are coordinated by a central ham radio network and what they see is reported to the weather service and eventually through the media to the general public. Their work can save lives.
The idiots who shot this video were just lucky. They put their own lives at stake and the lives of the first responders who would have had to try to save them if the tornado had flipped their truck over, or picked them up and dropped them in a lake.
With everyone walking around with a video camera these days it's not a question of whether it's a question of when we'll see video on CNN of a people in a truck just like this one in the middle of the tornado. Only difference will be it will be video found in the truck with the dead occupants who wern't smart enough to drive away from the tornado instead of into it. - PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Watching that video, filmed by someone sitting in their car, underneath the tornado with pieces of cardboard and dirt flying around (not into) the car, and listening to the jerk in the driver seat squealing "woooooah, keeeeewl, yeah maaaaaaan!" I do get the feeling that Darwin (and that tornado) have cheated us all.
- mesoed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm a chaser, and these guys were utter idiots. Although I'm surprised it wasn't Jeff Piotrowski (the second part of the video) that was in the middle of the tornado. He's WELL known for being a complete idiot when chasing. I remember seeing him present a video from the Oklahoma City/Moore, OK tornado at a conference. He wasn't more than 100 yards from the F5. He was so intent on folling this thing he decided to drive by a guy in a semi screaming for help after it got thrown by the tornado. Looks like he did something similar at the end of the video.
The sad part about this is that there's going to be some idoit out there that will see this video and think it's okay to drive into a tornado then find themselves dead. The famous video of the news crew under the overpass as a tornado passed nearly over them is a prime example. People in that same Oklahoma City tornado left the safety of their houses because they thought it'd be safer under an overpass. You can only guess what happened to them... - dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -13/+18what idiots. totally unsafe tornado chasing.
darwin had a theory that applies to these kinds of idiots. - mmcvey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6These idiots might be funnier if I hadn't just been through a tornado here in Iowa City last week. I'm taking cover and I hear on the TV: "We have a reported tornado touching down near Wal-Mart" (across the street from my apartment) and then the power cuts out...........scary *****.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I don't get it. That's not particularly good footage at all. There have been much better pieces of material, made by people who were much less redneck than these fools.
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I live in the Midwest, and if we hid in the basement every time there was a tornado warning, we'd never get anything done. I know people who got married outside while an F3 went by a half mile away. It's in the background of their wedding videos. Now for an F4 or an F5, sure, we'll stay inside for a few minutes while it passes, but that's about it. To us, tornadoes are just like earthquakes are to Californinans, or hurricanes to Floridians. We respect 'em, but we don't let 'em run our lives.
- CGorman68, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I live outside of this "tornado alley" that you speak of and it wasn't exciting. If I wanted to see weather like that I'd drive down to the beach on a foggy morning or drive out to the mountains and go through a cloud.
No Digg. - thewise1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8For those of you putting them down because they aren't professionals, some of the best discoveries ever made were made by people who aren't "professionals".
Get off your high horse. The guys are still alive too, completely negating the comment about natural selection.
I'm a nerd, but I grew up on a farm and I like doing stuff that a lot of you would apparently label "redneck", so watch how you generalize. It doesn't speak well for you. - Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Southern Californians know and respect earthquakes. I'm up here in Northern Cali and it's been 20 years since they felt one and they're shaking in their boots in fear of another one. I'm getting sick of the nostop news specials of the 100th anniversary of the great San Francisco 1906 quake.
- bbeahm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5To add to the credibility of the redneck claim... the guys name for the first vid was RANDY HICK!!
- hasbeen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4agreed this is overhyped. The end showed some nice images, but 80% of it was complete waste.
- beervolcano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4agreed! That second link was AWSOME!! I should have been a meteorologist!
- beergeek, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10"Whooo -- look at the piece of debris!"
What a bunch of rednecks. The last guy even has dip in his lip. ha! - RobCowie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That it? Jees... you guys are easily pleased.
- TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14Again, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say thrill seekers like these people have contributed much to science other than a body count. I think it's safe to say these people were amateurs (notice the footage was given to CNN by some guy, and not some guy as a representative of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association?). Professionals would have had better equipment and would have known the rules about how *not* to get surrounded by swiling debris. People like this put everyone in the area at risk, and give a bad name to the professionals out there who are doing real research and actual *good* for science.
- brhad56, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Dude... That's fux0rd up!
- riddlebox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2HOLD UP.....First off...Humans don't really know much about tornados, there so fast...and "usually" do not last long enough to study...so chasing them..is essential. Second...that was the begginning of the tornado...the debris just wasn't spinning around it yet...THIRD...the guys windshield may have been cracked because with tornado's also come..hail. Everyone here that lives around them agrees, this ***** is serious. Its not like a ***** hurricane...that most people sit and wait on...you have ...a minute tops to SEEK any sort of shelter, but your truck/car is not the best, more like the ditch on the side of the road...holding on to..your balls. And that tornado wasn't powerful...so their "truck" wouldnt necassarily be flipped over?...Tornados come through Indiana and in the "Alley" some things are destroyed others sit there perfectly...like nothing had happened. They are a weird "phenomenom" here in america..and rare in other parts of the world
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah it's nothing to write home about.
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Maybe they switched the awesome tornado video for this lame video of fog, clouds and whirling bits of debris.
- fsnuffer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8I hope the rental car company sees this and denies their insurance claim.
- umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Jubaju you're wrong. They got no useful information out of that video other than an explination for their auto insurer as to why their SUV was trashed. It's another bad video of exactly what not to do.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm not saying that these particular people were the best examples of this (if you actually read my comment) but I am saying that there are valuable efforts and outcomes that are a result of people taking risks.
- hanshasuro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Damn, beat me to it ;)
- gookie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Zzzzzzz......
- Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think that was a "tornado." It looked more like what we here in Texas call a "dust devil." Some wind, a little debris, some dust - nothing more. If it were a tornado, then the car would have flipped and rolled, hail would have pummled the car and broke all the glass, torrents of rain would be falling, and the occupants dismembered body parts would have been strewn over the nearby field.
- maverick999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Link doesn't work in WMP...
- lewis6681, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I think they needed a beer run before they went storm chasin'.
- inkhead, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4all the people who say "they aren't real storm chasers" are just a bunch of jealious idiots. your mad because bunch of hacks got lucky and got good footage. Of course it was dangerous, sometime's life is only fun when you do a few stupid things. ***** whiney storm spotters in Indiana who stay in the safe shelters with their telephoto lens.
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