Why is everyone getting worked up. This is clearly a self correcting problem.

Besides, think of all the great video we could get. Give them a helmet mount GoPro and then recover the footage when we find their body.

Some of the people quoted in the article are contributing to the problem as well. And they have the nerve to believe they're above themselves? Cabbage muffs all of them!

Bed news? Whar is the Bed news!!! WHAR!@

I read that in Larry the Cable Guy's voice.

I grew up in the midwest, when it was still considered smart to seek shelter during tornadoes unless you were TRAINED EMERGENCY PERSONNEL. Not some effing halfwit storm chaser and his $200,000 tardmobile.

I would be in favor of laws making it illegal to be on the road unless you were running from a storm or seeking cover, or part of emergency rescue.

Storm chasing is a dumbass hobby and people can and do get hurt, and not just the ones doing it.

How soon they forget that they were rookie morons when they first started out...eh, they probably still are.

Generation_D: I would be in favor of laws making it illegal to be on the road unless you were running from a storm or seeking cover, or part of emergency rescue.

Well that would be a stupid law.

I blame movies for this. Releasing movies like twister creates a feeling in people that makes it seem ok to get that close to one. I think we should ban disaster movies.

Generation_D: I grew up in the midwest, when it was still considered smart to seek shelter during tornadoes unless you were TRAINED EMERGENCY PERSONNEL. Not some effing halfwit storm chaser and his $200,000 tardmobile.

I would be in favor of laws making it illegal to be on the road unless you were running from a storm or seeking cover, or part of emergency rescue.

Storm chasing is a dumbass hobby and people can and do get hurt, and not just the ones doing it.

Simple solution - mandatory lockdown when any storm is possible? Get to the approved shelters citizen!

As someone who had been really close to getting hit by tornados on several occasions, anyone who would intentionally go looking for them needs a good swift cock punch.

Could we have a new Twister movie where all the stupid people get killed off in various funny and bizarre ways, ala "Scary Movie"?

"Jo. Things go wrong. You can't explain it, you can't predict it. Killing yourself wo'nt bring your dad back. I'm sorry that he died, but that was a long time ago. You gotta move on. Stop living in the past, and look what you got right in front of you."

They're all just trying to channel their guilt because Daddy died during the twister and they didn't.

runescorpio: I blame movies for this. Releasing movies like twister creates a feeling in people that makes it seem ok to get that close to one. I think we should ban disaster movies.

No! If we banned disaster movies I wouldn't have seen The Day After Tomorrow and learned you can outrun the temperature!

AbbeySomeone: Generation_D: I grew up in the midwest, when it was still considered smart to seek shelter during tornadoes unless you were TRAINED EMERGENCY PERSONNEL. Not some effing halfwit storm chaser and his $200,000 tardmobile.

I would be in favor of laws making it illegal to be on the road unless you were running from a storm or seeking cover, or part of emergency rescue.

Storm chasing is a dumbass hobby and people can and do get hurt, and not just the ones doing it.

Simple solution - mandatory lockdown when any storm is possible? Get to the approved shelters citizen!

Seriously. Sirens go off in every city in the county if a tornado is spotted in any part of the county. So now I'm going to be ticketed for driving on the road because a supercell clipped the county border 40 miles away? It just sounds like an opportunity for local police to raise revenue on a ticketing spree every time we get a thunderstorm in the summer. Will they be enforcing the law during every severe storm watch? It will be illegal to drive for 25% of the summer.

Great idea.

Darwin cackles and rubs his hands together furiously in anticipatory glee.

Crosshair: Why is everyone getting worked up. This is clearly a self correcting problem.

Some of us are actual trained storm chasers...

There's a big difference. When we go out, we don't intentionally put ourselves in harm's way - we put ourselves in a position to watch the storm without running stupid risks.

If any idiot can do it, they're endangering themselves and others around them.

/to be completely fair, I haven't done it in a long time...

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I honestly think some of this is Weather Channel programming. For example, right now The Weather Channel in the North East is running this "OMG! WESTERN NEW YORK IS GONNA DIE FROM A SNOWSTORM! POWER LINES WILL BE DOWN! TREES WILL FALL! ARRGHHH!" programming, even going so far as to have the weather channel spokesmodels complain on the air that none of the local papers had the weather on the front page this morning...when NOAA has already downgraded the forecast to "meh, Buffalo might get 2 inches of snow over the next 36 hours, but the lake is 46 degrees and it's going to melt, but it might be slippery driving for a while."
What we have is WALL TO WALL coverage of Aprilsnowaggedon, and what we're getting is a rainstorm with some flakes, but flurries of weather reporters incoming.
Eventually I think everyone is going to realize the weather channel is full of shiat, and this storm chasing, every storm is the storm of the century, every tornado is the tornado that ended the world, let's wreck our car in the hailstorm fashion thing will be seen as the silly fad it is, and the silly fad THEY STARTED.
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reillan: When we go out, we don't intentionally put ourselves in harm's way - we put ourselves in a position to watch the storm without running stupid risks.

If any idiot can do it, they're endangering themselves and others around them.

It does remind me of the scene in Jaws where the Amity dock is filled with every redneck moron within 50 miles trying to kill the shark for the reward money.

runescorpio: I blame movies for this. Releasing movies like twister creates a feeling in people that makes it seem ok to get that close to one. I think we should ban disaster crappy movies.

FTFY

AbbeySomeone: Generation_D: I grew up in the midwest, when it was still considered smart to seek shelter during tornadoes unless you were TRAINED EMERGENCY PERSONNEL. Not some effing halfwit storm chaser and his $200,000 tardmobile.

I would be in favor of laws making it illegal to be on the road unless you were running from a storm or seeking cover, or part of emergency rescue.

Storm chasing is a dumbass hobby and people can and do get hurt, and not just the ones doing it.

Simple solution - mandatory lockdown when any storm is possible? Get to the approved shelters citizen!

Its how things used to be. If you weren't "emergency" or have a reason to be out, you were told turn around and go back. Now everyone assumes its their right to do whatever the hell they want. If its a real emergency this is not helping.

I was under the impression that you could get get official storm-chasing documents. Allowing you to exceed the speed limit, "authorizing" you to turn around in limited access highway medians.

Is this a state-by-state thing, does anyone know? It doesn't tornado where I am often enough for anyone to chase locally.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: I don't care if some hillbilly wants to Darwin his family "so's we can get little Earnhardt's picture with a ternader what for the Facebook," but when some poor 19-year-old National Guardsman has to risk HIS life to get that brain-dead family out then it's everyone's problem.

Ternadet...i lol'd

SwiftFox: I was under the impression that you could get get official storm-chasing documents. Allowing you to exceed the speed limit, "authorizing" you to turn around in limited access highway medians.

Is this a state-by-state thing, does anyone know? It doesn't tornado where I am often enough for anyone to chase locally.

I've never heard of this and a Google search comes up with nothing. Where exactly did you hear about this?

LabGrrl: [Rant]
I honestly think some of this is Weather Channel programming. For example, right now The Weather Channel in the North East is running this "OMG! WESTERN NEW YORK IS GONNA DIE FROM A SNOWSTORM! POWER LINES WILL BE DOWN! TREES WILL FALL! ARRGHHH!" programming, even going so far as to have the weather channel spokesmodels complain on the air that none of the local papers had the weather on the front page this morning...when NOAA has already downgraded the forecast to "meh, Buffalo might get 2 inches of snow over the next 36 hours, but the lake is 46 degrees and it's going to melt, but it might be slippery driving for a while."
What we have is WALL TO WALL coverage of Aprilsnowaggedon, and what we're getting is a rainstorm with some flakes, but flurries of weather reporters incoming.
Eventually I think everyone is going to realize the weather channel is full of shiat, and this storm chasing, every storm is the storm of the century, every tornado is the tornado that ended the world, let's wreck our car in the hailstorm fashion thing will be seen as the silly fad it is, and the silly fad THEY STARTED.
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To be fair, Home Despot needs the sales.

Hey guys don't go out during tornadoes because it's dangerous to the people who go out during tornadoes.

Can't they just stay home and watch Alien Tornado on SyFy?

/Next week: Space Twister!

Has any non-professional ever been killed or even hurt chasing a storm? I really don't think these gawkers are getting in anyone's way. My impression of some volunteer emergency responders is that they feel pretty full of themselves and don't want anyone horning in on their action, especially the general public. Makes them feel a little less special.

runescorpio: I blame movies for this. Releasing movies like twister creates a feeling in people that makes it seem ok to get that close to one. I think we should ban disaster movies.



You assume that people actually saw said movie. If I remember correctly it was unwatchable.

SwiftFox: I was under the impression that you could get get official storm-chasing documents. Allowing you to exceed the speed limit, "authorizing" you to turn around in limited access highway medians.

Is this a state-by-state thing, does anyone know? It doesn't tornado where I am often enough for anyone to chase locally.

Yep, it's true. I can expidite the required documentation and permits for a fee $149 + shipping, good in all 50 states and most of Canada (docs are in English.)

It's a yearly thing so you'd have to renew in January. Let me know, EIP

umad: reillan: Some of us are actual trained storm chasers...

There's a big difference. When we go out, we don't intentionally put ourselves in harm's way

You are probably right. I'm sure those amateurs are intentionally putting themselves in harm's way. I'm not sure I would be willing to admit that I was so stupid as to require specific training to keep me from intentionally putting myself in danger though. I suppose nobody ever accused storm chasers of being smart.

And you forgot to mention all of the lives you have saved with your bravery.

zing

We have cotton batting wrapped lives, and every exciting thing is packaged for us by the TV overlords, so seeing something real must have appeal. Me? Hey, I KNOW I can be killed, tornados, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and the like don't have much interest for me, I'd rather be safe somewhere else.

I was in Rockford, IL, when Beloit took a big one. We were in the basement in the storm shelter, not driving around looking for trouble. Sheesh.

itsajungleboy: Has any non-professional ever been killed or even hurt chasing a storm? I really don't think these gawkers are getting in anyone's way.

The complaints I'm aware of are usually about chasers creating traffic problems as they scramble to chase a storm they'll never catch up with, rather than some dramatic event like a tornado picking up and throwing their vehicle.

My impression of some volunteer emergency responders is that they feel pretty full of themselves and don't want anyone horning in on their action, especially the general public. Makes them feel a little less special.

That sounds like baseless conjecture.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: SwiftFox: I was under the impression that you could get get official storm-chasing documents. Allowing you to exceed the speed limit, "authorizing" you to turn around in limited access highway medians.

Is this a state-by-state thing, does anyone know? It doesn't tornado where I am often enough for anyone to chase locally.

I've never heard of this and a Google search comes up with nothing. Where exactly did you hear about this?

Not sure really. Nova? National Geographic? Anyway, TV documentary about a guy who had a Doppler radar unit on a vehicle and trying to get very up close images of tornadoes to find out why they form.

Mr.Hawk: runescorpio: I blame movies for this. Releasing movies like twister creates a feeling in people that makes it seem ok to get that close to one. I think we should ban disaster movies.

You assume that people actually saw said movie. If I remember correctly it was unwatchable.

Twister was the second-biggest hit movie of 1996. The first was Independence Day, which goes further to show your correlation between a film's quality and people seeing it is a bit flawed.

A couple or three years back a tornado cell went crawling down through central Nebraska. It was moving so slowly, and the funnels it dropped were so consistent and stable, that you could crawl along behind it or beside it and get really quite close. It even followed a highway for about an hour. Those are the ones to chase. It's the ones that wander and throw down cat tail funnels that scare the bejeezus out of you. Don't chase without a gazetteer, your tires in good shape, and the car radio on.

/Done spotting and chasing.
//Mighty good times.
///Took weather hazard classes.

Next up: outlawing surfing in advance of a hurricane, unless you're trained.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: It does remind me of the scene in Jaws where the Amity dock is filled with every redneck moron within 50 miles trying to kill the shark for the reward money.

I just found out, that a girl got killed here last week, and you knew it! You knew there was a tornado out there! You knew it was dangerous! But you let people go storm chasing anyway? You knew all those things! But still my boy is dead now. And there's nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead. I wanted you to know that.

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