Storm chasers.



Last night I was flipping channels and I caught this show on the Weather channel. It’s called Full Force Nature and it has all the usual weather footage by storm chasers.

Now, I’m as susceptible as the next person when it comes to watching this sh*t. I've been on the periphery of a couple of twisters in tornado weather locally and out in Oklahoma and I can truthfully say it isn’t a good feeling when the sky takes on this sickly greenish color and has this unnatural stillness that precedes one of these things. Watching it in the safety of a living room on the tube is definitely preferable to being out in it.

So, as I was saying, I’m flipping around and I stop to watch a few minutes of this show. They’re interviewing some guy who along with his friend ‘chased’ a tornado and captured footage of it. Thing is, while they were filming it, you can hear the running dialog from the inside of their car while they were engaging in this stupidity.



I’m not talking about meteorologists or climate scientists, these are just a couple of goofballs in a car with their DV camera doing this. This has the potential to be one of those Darwin moments when the species gets thinned out for the better but, it doesn’t happen.

Instead these clowns are chasing after a fairly sizable twister (one that is broader than it is higher - an F4 to boot) and the string of expletives that accompanies the footage is just verification of how stupid these guys are. I’m watching this and the idiots are following the path of destruction in the tornado’s wake - lots of ‘Geeezzz!’ and ‘God’s. They’re driving by houses marveling at the total devastation of these obliterated structures. And the thing that struck me in that moment more than anything else was that these morons just continued along their merry way following the tornado. It never even occurred to them to get the f**k out of their car and go and check to make sure people were okay!



You have to figure how wonderful it is for the people whose houses are just gone, to have someone come along moments afterward and marvel at their tragedy without the merest thought of how they might help. Got to love some people’s stupidity and insensitivity, maybe they’ll get lucky next time and get a shot from real up close, like inside the funnel.

Yeeesh! What morons!