Tornado Throws Weather Channel Chase Vehicle 200 Yards

Wow. The story is here and pull down the page to watch the video from inside the vehicle as it was happening.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ist-injuried-okla-tornadoes-article-1.1360496

 

As if being a TV weatherman give you the skills to chase storms. I'm glad they are all okay and hope they learned a valuable lesson. Looking good in front of a camera doesn't make you a storm chaser.

 

Now, I see these headlines:

Tim Samaras Dead: Storm Chaser Dies With Son Paul And Carl Young In Oklahoma Tornado

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/02/storm-chasers-dead-tim-samaras_n_3375384.html

 

2 stormchasers were among those who died in the latest OK tornadoes.

 

dont play chicken with a tornado..

 

You're kidding, right. I mean, I was totally gonna go do that really soon.

 

the guys that died...that wasnt their car


their car was shredded to pieces

 

Right. There are two different stories in this thread.

 

I love being in the middle of nasty storms. When the tornado sirens are going off, I'm the guy in the middle of the street with a drink in one hand and my phone in the other trying to tape it. I got it from my dad. The first tornado I ever saw, my whole family was in the middle of the street and my dad had one of those cinderblock sized video cameras on his shoulder. It wasn't in till an entire tree, roots and all, came flying a over our heads that my dad made us go inside. He stayed out there though, and got some wild fuckin footage.

I'd love to be a storm chaser. But me and science go together like oil and water. I'm afraid my thrill seeking side would take over and I'd drive right into the first twister. So I'll stick to my front porch tornado parties. The last one I had I anchored the grill down to the porch and cooked beer brats and chicken wings. An F3 ripped apart Churchill downs and dropped parts of its roof all over my neighborhood

 

Now three!