ArtRosen Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 12-year old boy uses iPhone to video dad driving into tornado in Dunn, NC on April 16, 2011. More evidence IMHO that the general adult public is mindless to the dangers of nature -even when provided plenty of advance warning. I've been writing about this for 20 years, and I see minimal progress re this issue. These children were VERY lucky - as was the adult driver. http://www.wral.com/...92/#/vid9456892 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Trying to win a Darwin Award after having children. That borders on criminal negligence or endangerment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Ummmm... why did they have to drive into that? "not a very intense tornado"... ok. Thank goodness they lived Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U_Thant Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Wow....Just wow... *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 This is at least the 4th video I've seen of someone driving dangerously close to (or getting inside of) a tornado from the NC outbreak on Saturday. What's the cause of all this? Are NC residents really that uneducated to the danger of severe weather? If so they need to make this a class in high school, and fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plokoon111 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 That shoUld be criminal.... On a funny note, I wonder how the guy from storm chasers fells from the tiv? He's spending $$$$$ to get the intercept, and these morons get the intercept of a lifetime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslkahuna Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 That shoUld be criminal.... On a funny note, I wonder how the guy from storm chasers fells from the tiv? He's spending $$$$$ to get the intercept, and these morons get the intercept of a lifetime He's probably the reason a lot of people now think it's okay to drive into a tornado. One word for what the Father did in this case-Stupid. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 He's probably the reason a lot of people now think it's okay to drive into a tornado. One word for what the Father did in this case-Stupid. Steve Stupid's giving the guy too much credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U_Thant Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 From a publc awareness/safety standpoint, this type of stuff is as damaging as it is personally maddening. Brings back to mind the vid of the news team (in KS?) that parked on the interstate and went up underneath an overpass as a they had the edge of the circulation of an F-1 or F-2 pass over them. It took years and years (and maybe not yet completely) to undo the perpatuation of the myth of safety underneath an overpass (which caused traffic jams by peeps parking in the road to do the same thing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28storms Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Sean Casey drives around in a tank. The retards can't fault anyone but themselves if they assume it's safe to drive the family van into a tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Wow... Someone hand this man a Darwin Award... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HurricaneJosh Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Pretty irresponsible parenting. But a cool video, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isohume Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Can kids sue their parents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerWXman Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Is there some back story to this? I'm trying to decide whether dad was trying to drive them into the tornado or trying to get away from it after realizing it was too close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isohume Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Is there some back story to this? I'm trying to decide whether dad was trying to drive them into the tornado or trying to get away from it after realizing it was too close. The back story is Dad is not mentally stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithiaWx Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 wow, every time I watch a video like this my faith in humanity gets lower and lower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Marusak Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 absolutely awful. even mentally unstable people have more sense than this. i wish people would learn, but that's wishful thinking as long as we glorify those who do it on tv shows on discovery channel and twc. i had a childhood friend whose parents tried to drive away from a tornado near harvey's lake in northeast pa back in the mid 80's. the car got picked up by the twister and launched into Harris Pond. the parents were ok as well as one of the kids (a childhood friend about my age). the other was a bit younger and almost drowned and was in a temporary coma before recovering. it's a reason to this day that i never endorse driving into a twister, and maybe one of the subliminal reasons i haven't been on a tornado chase yet (even though the main reason is i'd need someone to chase with who knew what he was looking at better for at the least the first couple of times). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalicwx366 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 That guy is stupid! WTF did he drive into the tornado? He didn't even say nothing or even worry about his kids. He must be suicidal.Im glad nothng went wrong. Im sorry but that video had some humor in it at the end of it when someone was yelling get down. The man was probably just sitting there like a dumbass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslkahuna Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Sean Casey drives around in a tank. The retards can't fault anyone but themselves if they assume it's safe to drive the family van into a tornado. One minor flaw in the tank idea, photos of it show it to be well under the weight of a M1A1 Abrams tank which is about what you need to get through an EF-5 safely. EF4's and higher will toss a train locomotive weighing many tons so the TIV would not survive one of those. The Father is not eligible for a Darwin award because he lived but unfortunately he's already added his sons to the gene pool. I would not be surprised if he didn't do what he did just so his son could act the chaser role. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatwad Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 herp derp That guy went full retard, and you never ever should go full retard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 OK clearly a very stupid thing to do and I'm not defending it in the slightest but could someone explain to me exactly what the dangers of this situation are and give me an understanding of how dangerous his actions were? From the video it looks like the tornado is not that intense... like it might move the car but probably not toss it up and fling it. A lot of flying debris. Could the tornado intensify quickly and toss the car? Or is my perception of its intensity totally wrong? I don't know much about tornadoes except to stay the hell away from them. Is this a situation where the driver and the kids had a small but unacceptably large chance of dying (.1%, 1% or something) or a situation where they really are lucky to be alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Wow. What kind of idiot drives straight into a tornado. I mean there are storm chasers who do that on the Discovery channel but they have a tank type vehicle, and they didn't bring 12 yr olds with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 OK clearly a very stupid thing to do and I'm not defending it in the slightest but could someone explain to me exactly what the dangers of this situation are and give me an understanding of how dangerous his actions were? From the video it looks like the tornado is not that intense... like it might move the car but probably not toss it up and fling it. A lot of flying debris. Could the tornado intensify quickly and toss the car? Or is my perception of its intensity totally wrong? I don't know much about tornadoes except to stay the hell away from them. Is this a situation where the driver and the kids had a small but unacceptably large chance of dying (.1%, 1% or something) or a situation where they really are lucky to be alive. 1) In what way does it not look intense? There's one indication that it may not be all that intense but I'm not sure how obvious that would be to this guy. 2) It doesn't take wind speeds all that large to fling debris so regardless of whether it can flip the car or not, it's still incredibly dangerous. As far as the probability of dying, according to Wurman et al. (2007), the death rate in the F4/F5 parts of the Bridgecreek-Moore tornado was "only" 1-3% though there were unusually long warning times, and presumably well-protected people. If I had to ballpark it for this case, the lower wind speeds lower that 1-3% number while the fact they were in the car increases it. I'd ballpark it at about 1% because of the high risk exposure to debris being in a car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 1) In what way does it not look intense? There's one indication that it may not be all that intense but I'm not sure how obvious that would be to this guy. 2) It doesn't take wind speeds all that large to fling debris so regardless of whether it can flip the car or not, it's still incredibly dangerous. As far as the probability of dying, according to Wurman et al. (2007), the death rate in the F4/F5 parts of the Bridgecreek-Moore tornado was "only" 1-3% though there were unusually long warning times, and presumably well-protected people. If I had to ballpark it for this case, the lower wind speeds lower that 1-3% number while the fact they were in the car increases it. I'd ballpark it at about 1% because of the high risk exposure to debris being in a car. 1) Yeah but this guy is dumb enough to do it again, and he might not be as lucky next time. 2) 1% seems a little low because I don't think that study accounts for people who drive inside tornadoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 1) Yeah but this guy is dumb enough to do it again, and he might not be as lucky next time. Ok, I'm not sure what that has to do with my post. 2) 1% seems a little low because I don't think that study accounts for people who drive inside tornadoes. It doesn't, but on the other side, those numbers are from a violent tornado, which I assume this was not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooL Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Looks like the tornado was an EFO? even so, that can bring hurricane force winds and can easily tip over a family van. This video is sickening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 It's difficult to tell how strong a tornado is based on its appearance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I don't know what it would take to impress some of these people... I've seen tornadoes that truly do "look" weak visually, and neither this nor the Walgreens one from NC fall into that category. I have to wonder whether these people might be saying the same thing even if Moore or Greensburg were approaching them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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