Tornado chasing, what could be more American ?

dogman dan

dogman dan

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Watching a stormchaser show on the weather channel as I write this. It's so american that you gotta love it. Take your car, haul ass off to drive thousands of miles trying to get the car pounded to crap by hail. Like they say, Only in America. :lol: :roll:

We need a new phrase in american idiom. Tornado Paparazzi. They are just as insanely intensely after that shot as anybody chasing a movie starlet hoping for a nipple slip. Some are actually legitimate scientists after data, but many are just kooks with a camera and a death wish. Gotta be fun though. 8)
 
True, americas no 1 activity, turning our 18 year olds into killers. The point I was trying to make is how much we love to burn a zillion gallons of fuel in basicly purposeless activities. The exeption of course is the real scientist stormchasers. Stormchasing just for the thrill is possibly even more purposless than a hot air balloon. It gets easy to see how we use more fossil fuel per capita than anybody.
 
Storm chasing is sort of cool. I like it when they get a bit too close and have to jam the car in reverse and floor it. Yikes!

Bungee jumping is stupider.
 
Storm chasing is sort of cool. I like it when they get a bit too close and have to jam the car in reverse and floor it. Yikes!

Bungee jumping is stupider.
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Ditto!!!!!!!

Of course I am a drag racer, so dangerous things are just natural for me!!!


:):)

Ed
 
dogman said:
Tornado chasing, what could be more American ?
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Watching a stormchaser show on the weather channel.
 
Yeah I watch too much tv, blather too much here etc. I spend a lot of time horizontal since I crushed all the lumbar disks 15 years ago. Now I work a short day, and spend the afternoons lying in bed. I just have only so many vertical hours a day in me.

One of the more daring stormchasers on these shows lives in Oklahoma. It would be funny to see him some day, chasing a storm from NM, drive 600 miles, end up in his county :( , chasing the storm front to his town :shock: , to his neighborhood :x , to his street :evil: . " Wow, look at the footage I just got of my house blowing away!" 8)
 
Thats the third one of those tornado proof vehicles I've seen. One of the guys with one is on a car rental blacklist. One too many rented cars trashed for him.
 
dogman said:
One of the guys with one is on a car rental blacklist. One too many rented cars trashed for him.
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^^^ NOW THAT that reminds me of the JackAss movie when Johnny Knoxfield goes and hires a rental car takes it and enters itin a demo derby...well you can imagine the state of it after that, rolls back to the rental place ...piss funny...

KiM
 
Tornado proof my ass. I don't think mother nature cares how macho looking you make your pickup truck, she's going to toss it aside just the same..
Air can't get under it. :roll:
 
vanilla ice said:
Air can't get under it. :roll:
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yeah that made me laugh, wind would have no porbs toppling it end for end im sure...how convenient his camera stopped working the one and only time he drove it through the tornado too...

KiM
 
Makes me think of comedian Ron White about a guy who tied himself to a tree to prove he could withstand a force 5 hurricane.
What matters is not how fast the wind is blowing,........... but what the wind is blowing.
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