Here are a couple YouTube posts from
storm chasers who were on the scene for yesterday's devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.
Two things have weighed heavily on my mind the past two weeks: the tornadoes that have ravaged the Oklahoma City area, and the professional and amateur
storm chasers who risk their lives to follow them.
Not exact matches
Longtime
chasers Roger Edwards and Tim Vazquez,
who maintain an online forum dedicated to
storm tracking, estimate that there are only 100 or so enthusiasts
who chase year after year.
The ensemble of mostly no - name actors includes «ICarly» alum Nathan Kress as the VP's other son, a kid
who refuses to put down his video camera even in situations where he's about to die, and Matt Walsh (Mike on HBO's «Veep»), as the head
storm chaser / filmmaker obsessed with getting incredible footage at all cost.
We get familiar tropes, such as a single dad trying to find his sons, a teenage boy
who is too shy to ask the school's beauty out but ends up becoming a hero in her eyes, and rival
storm chasers (a truly annoying pair of «reality show» - caliber, stereotypical rednecks)
who muck things up more often than not.
Armed robbers hit a Treasury facility in Alabama while a Category 5
storm approaches from the coast; Maggie Grace is the federal agent
who has to stop them, and Toby Kebbell is the meteorologist
who drives her around in his souped - up
storm chaser car.
Tim Samaras, a longtime
storm chaser for the Discovery Channel
who died with his son Paul and partner Carl Young on Friday night in a potent Oklahoma twister, was certainly a celebrity, but also very much a scientist.
As a four - decade
storm chaser I acknowledge there are some
chasers (especially those associated with the media)
who behaved irresponsibly in Oklahoma in their quest to get more extreme video than the next guy.
This was despite a number of natural disasters last year that brought out
storm chaser scammers
who traditionally try to take advantage of distressed people.