Dave
Staff member
Proliferation of affordable and reliable recording devices + People wanting their fifteen minutes of fame + distribution over the internet = a metric buttload of tornado "documentarists".It is so strange, that when I was in grade school there was only one confirmed film showing a tornado. Now there seems to be dozens more every week each spring.
That and storm chasers - people who track storm systems in hopes of seeing a tornado. There's even a show about various teams called, naturally enough, "Storm Chasers". One crew is attached to an idiot filmmaker who wants the "Twister" shot, looking up the funnel, even though that shot can't actually happen. Another crew started out as semi-Extreme Sports types, who film the twisters and sell the footage to news stations. That aspect is undermined by the fact that the apparent leader of that crew actually is a meteorologist and they've explored a lot of unconventional ways of getting probes into tornadoes, include R/C airplanes and an air-cannon. The driver at one point complains that they're focused more about the science than selling video or gathering hail to sell to Boeing or Lockheed Martin. Then there are other teams of various funding levels, up to a massive government project featuring over a dozen mobile Doppler radar units on trucks... that are too fragile to be driven near storms.Proliferation of affordable and reliable recording devices + People wanting their fifteen minutes of fame + distribution over the internet = a metric buttload of tornado "documentarists".
Well i guess he'll die in some sort of wind related household accident then... like the wind opening a window that hits him and he falls down and hits his head on something...He's the Steve Irwin of storm chasers.