Jer đŸš”đŸŒ

I wonder what the payoffs are for storm chasing. Do they ink a deal with meteorological streamers like Ryan Hall, getting a few hundred bucks for the evening and bonus payouts if they capture a big one? Do they then try to sell the best “worst” footage to major networks and publish supercuts on YT for ad revenue?

https://youtu.be/Ispu4lD2CqM
#tornados #stormchasing

The Most INTENSE Tornado I've Ever Live Streamed...

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Apr 5 at 12:14pmWeb
Show threadDon RayApr 5

@jerzone

I think they’re trying to win an all expenses paid trip to Oz.

Show threadJer đŸš”đŸŒApr 5
@donray Watched a documentary on them a while back. Not an easy job. Certainly full of some wonder and adrenaline, but also hours (days) of drudgery. When I was a teen working in radio, I was on a tornado chase with the news lady driving an old rambler station wagon across midwest back roads at ungodly speeds while we broadcasted live, only to get a flat and save us from actually catching it.
Show threadDon RayApr 5

@jerzone

Cool. That sounds like a short story waiting to be written. Or a piece of creative non-fiction.

The local radio stations here will do some in-storm reporting. It’ll be the station owner’s son: “I’m out here on the blacktop a mile east of Cromwell. Seeing some rotation a mile north — possible tornado heading for Orient and
Whoa!!! You can probably hear the hail. Can’t see anything at the moment. Pouring rain! The wind’s come up pretty hard
”

Show threadJer đŸš”đŸŒApr 5
@donray Yep, that sounds like small town radio.
I was cruising town with friends one night and thought “this looks like tornado weather” so I went and unlocked radio station and as I walked in the teletype is dinging like it does for emergencies, tornado warning. I fire up transmitter and start broadcasting. Don't remember how long before someone else came to station and let me know there was no audio. The last person who worked that day had re-patched the console’s audio for commercials and left it that way. 😬
Show threadDon RayApr 5

@jerzone

That reminds of the joke about how do you describe college radio in 5 words:

Dead air, um, dead air.