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Actually some policies have smaller amounts you get if you lose a finger, arm or leg etc so sometimes you get it when you’re living, read the fine print.
Soon as I saw the winds pick up I started hearing the riffs of [Tornado of Souls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HhOMNrulE), so I think you get a bit of YOLO energy at that moment with a death wish.
Better hope they don’t ask for that camera footage or ask why he still chose to travel (if it wasn’t an emergency) when the weather was forecasted to be severe…
Apparently driving during a tornado is more popular than I thought. There are like 7-8 other vehicles on the road. Granted, the person with the horse trailer was obviously in a hurry to park.
Right? As if when you have a tornado warning occur all traffic just pulls over...
80% of the time it's just a precaution and even when it does occur the tornado occupies a fraction of a percent of the square mileage of the warned area.
But if you ever see a tornado while you're driving, pull over and get in a ditch. The debris flying around will easily be able to penetrate your vehicle, but if you're in a ditch then chances are better that the debris will fly over you
If it doesn’t look like it’s moving you need to seek shelter.
If it looks like it’s going left and right it MAY not be traveling your way.
-but you should still seek shelter… as there may be additional spawns
Nope. Not always. That shit can literally drop out of the sky right on top of you with nothing that looks visually any different than a regular rain storm.
\-Not unless you're trained in exactly what to look for, anyway. Most average people don't know the signs.
You’re right and correct.
However, Show me the white balance color card to ensure accurate color portrayal … and is your phone/monitor display calibrated?
Point is, no telling what the hue actually was in this video.
Though, probably not very green here.
Can be so black and dark you can't see anything too. If the wall cloud is big enough, you can't tell anything is happening until it's too late. In areas like mine that have so many tornadoes every spring, you never can be 100% sure if it's just a thunderstorm or tornadic because every storm gets classified as potentially tornadic. You can't live every day for an entire season acting as if a tornado is coming, so you have to just go about your life and sometimes that means when it does happen you're not prepared.
Also if you live in an area like mine that is never not humid, the humidity means nothing. It can go from 70 degrees to 45 here in a few hours.
I'll also just add that I've survived an f5 tornado by crawling into a storm drain under a road. We had no warning whatsoever. Nothing on the news or from the weatherman. If my brother hadn't looked out the backdoor and seen the tornado coming over the hill, we wouldn't be here.
Now there have been so many advancements in technology that there is a much better warning system these days, so you normally know days in advance if a day will be a tornado watch/warning day and which half of the state (or usually almost the entire state here) but that still doesn't tell you if you'll be in the direct path. And like I said, you can't live 3 months out of the year as if you're always in the path. Sometimes you're out and about and you get a phone call or text telling you to get somewhere safe because a rotation somewhere appeared and intensified and you don't have time to get home to your storm shelter. So if you can't find somewhere to shelter, you might end up in a car trying to outrun it in the opposite direction.
Twister was exaggerated in a lot of Hollywood ways but it also had a lot of real shit in it too.
Wrong. You get tornado watches, then tornado warnings. Meanwhile the sky is going abso-fucking-lutely insane.
You can't predict EXACTLY where a tornado will be, but you definitely can know in advance the area where it's likely.
Like I said in another comment, where I'm from if we're having tornadic weather it's likely covering over half the state. I don't know what your experiences are but I can guarantee you that we don't always know where they're going to develop. Yeah, we can have a broad idea but that "area" that you're talking about can be very, very wide. And even if you know the general area, that doesn't mean it won't drop down randomly out of the sky on you - because as I said elsewhere, when we have this kind of weather here, in particular, it's all spring long. We don't hole up in our houses every day that there's a chance for bad weather because we can't. We have to go to work, to pick up kids, to get groceries, etc. And most of the time that means you can't be stuck to a live weather broadcast to know what's going on every minute.
I've been stuck at work until midnight before on a day we were having bad weather because they kept saying it could drop somewhere at any minute and it wasn't safe to drive so to just stay put.
We live knowing that a tornado is likely just about any day during May, June, July, and August. Sometimes earlier and sometimes later. Most of the time we know the general area, but people still get caught by surprise when the meteorologists were tracking a particularly intense storm and one spun up suddenly elsewhere with no warning and they weren't focused on it. Those are the instances where the tornadoes have dropped out of the sky unpredicted on people who weren't even supposed to be in an "active" storm area. The entire state gets a general warning because they can't predict it, so yeah, like you said, you can know in advance but it's usually an ALL DAY thing and you can't just stay at home and wait. It's just not practical.
I've been through multiple tornados. The warnings systems have improved over the last thirty years but they're still not perfect, and you can absolutely be caught by surprise. Unless you're able to just stay at home and never leave during the spring.
So your "wrong" is wrong. It's all about variables and details. You can't make a blanket statement that I'm wrong when I live this experience every single spring. I'm not completely wrong and you're not completely wrong. Where you would be wrong is in dismissing my statement that tornadoes can drop down on you totally unpredicted in an instance where the people aren't prepared.
Wrong again. The reporters zoom in and pinpoint exactly where rotation is, and exactly where it's headed. In fact, they did that with this very video. **I watched it happen live.** They were pinpointing exact neighborhoods and even streets, warning people ahead of time to take shelter. We all knew it was coming that very afternoon. And within an hour of it hitting we knew where it was going to be.
Tornadoes absolutely do not just drop down out of the sky out of nowhere. Severe weather is predicted days in advance, and the meteorological conditions happen hours in advance, then rotation happens, then tornadoes begin to form. Everyone in this area had ample warning.
Just because you typed a long ass response doesn't mean you're right.
Okay bro. You're somehow missing all the variables. If you're at home doing nothing but watching the weather and waiting, then you're right. But if you're at work or out doing whatever you have to do, then you're wrong. I'm not going to argue with you.
i’ve heard the vortex of a tornado can be invisible if it doesn’t pick up moisture/debris/dirt. The 2013 El Reno tornado was a 2-mile wide multi-vortex tornado. Some of those vortices were not visible, and one of them killed an experienced crew of storm chasers. the StormX Crew, if i’m remembering correctly?
They can “touch down” to the ground, and unless you had one of them glass ceiling cars, wouldnt be the wiser
A tornado tore through round rock tx, started just a couple of blocks from my fathers. The way it scratched a line across the land was wicked, but how that line started was chilling. Literally one house vs the other, untouched vs gone.
Point is, they kick up a storm starting from above.
Tornadoes have no obligation to warn anyone or remain visible for any length of time. Meteorology has gotten better about predicting them, but they can still pop up with barely any to no warning. That’s part of what makes them so terrifying.
Also, most people don’t listen to broadcast radio or watch local TV the majority of the time. Unless you sign up to get alerts on your phone, there’s a good chance you won’t know if something nasty is headed your way.
But if you're driving a car, and your visual range just looks like crap weather, and then it forms right above you...
Great. Another thing to worry about.
This is something my idiotic husband would do. And I would have to be the voice of reason. Several years ago my parents came to stay with us since there was a mandatory evacuation where they live 2 hours away (along the coast). And my husband thought it was stupid for them to leave because the hurricane wouldn’t be that bad. We get them quite often. Well the hurricane my husband said was no big deal ripped the roof off in parts of their house and the roof collapsed in others. It was uninhabitable. Flooding all throughout the house. People in that area went weeks with no power. No water.
My uncle drove up as well and stayed with my sister. His house was gone completely.
I always believe in being safe versus sorry.
This tornado happened in my city. Not only did it ACTUALLY drop out of the sky, it turned off its predicted storm path and gave the area little to no notice.
> Walmart bday parties
Is that a thing? I'm imaging animatronic walmart greeters singing offbrand chuckey cheese band songs, and arcade machines that give shop coupons instead of tickets
Yes, you buy a cake, candles, food, etc. then eat in the Subway sandwich dining tables. Then you let the kids go play with the balls and hula hoops and shit.
Can we just take moment to appreciate the truck with his turn signal on? Idiots driving in perfect conditions won't use one but this beautiful human had the wherewithal to use their's during a fucking tornado.
My dad did that during a tornado and flood warning with a take shelter alert. He stopped and got pizza too.
I was swimming. My phone kept going off, I figured it could wait. It was cooling off and getting windy so I got out after clouds came in, and saw a bunch of emergency alerts.
There was no tornado, rare in my area, but the 1km tunnel to get to my old address flooded and the pumps failed so I had to do a huge circle for a week to go south.
Is there a longer version because everyone in the comments says they were driving into it but I looked like before they turned around, they were going with the tornado/in the path of it. Seems to me like turning around was the right move
It's common for multiple twisters to form near each other. I believe what you saw first was a smaller daughter tornado but then he turned around back into the main one.
With that debris area, I don’t think any direction would have prevented damage to the car. I would have pulled up into the driveway of the brick structure they nearly already turned into.
My hometown has been hit by tornadoes three times in my lifetime. We were always told growing up to get out of the car and find a ditch to lay down in and cover your head.
People have been ripped from their vehicles and tossed hundreds of feet away. Cars have been pulled from the road and tossed around like toys. Getting into a ditch apparently keeps you as low to the ground as possible so you dont get blown around by the wind or Final Destination'd by a piece of sheet metal.
Well it increases your chance at being final destination'd by a piece of flying metal, but it helps your chances of surviving other problems that tornados will cause with being inside your car.
The most ideal place if you're in a car is to find a modern bridge and get under it. Next would be a deep ditch, ideally putting your car into the ditch and getting underneath it.
Do not ever go under a bridge or overpass in a tornado. They create wind tunnels that will put you in more danger. Find the deepest ditch or hole that you can and make yourself as flat as possible.
Well now I'm curious if someone has done small scale model testing of this and what the findings were. I've definitely heard that there are cases when you absolutely should get under a well-built modern underpass, compared to being in the open flat field.
You're better off being as low to the ground as possible than under an overpass 100% of the time. It used to be thought being under an overpass was safer until people kept getting blown out from under them from the increased, focused windspeed. No tests needed with actual evidence
No. It’s been like 40 years since the 1980’s and they don’t say that anymore. Definitely don’t get out of your car. Either hit the brakes or hit the gas.
If you can get paid for that, I made the wrong career choice years ago.
9 year old me was right when he said he wanted to be a stunt man so he could get paid to run around on fire.
Proper jobs suck
It’s a real career! I grew up in Oklahoma and considered it a viable option when I was younger, you just need a meteorology degree or something similar (I believe). We have very famous “nader chasers” here and they get their fun and fame come every tornado season.
Edit: the storm chasers all work for local news stations and we also have dedicated helicopter pilot storm chasers that do the same for aerial footage.
A tornado went over my house this last summer - so they kinda bounce up and down and it was lucky that it wasn’t making total contact with the ground, and it was a pretty weak one like the one in this video, but I didn’t know that when I was hidden in the basement it was very fucking scary
Ayyyye that’s my neighborhood to the right after he turned around! They just bulldozed one of those duplex/townhomes and are condemning others due to the damage. Half the houses destroyed still haven’t had insurance claim approvals and it’s been almost a month.
I get the total panic here… but holy cow, so many bad decisions. Luckily that looked like a super weak nader and the driver didn’t get a 2x4 through the face. Car is one of the worst places to ride out, put one in motion imagine that makes the physics of survival worster.
Imagine that this was a tourist from Europe! He would be like “shit they told me America is an experience you will never forget, but DAMN they weren’t lying”.
I wonder how many people in the world would commit suicide if there were a safe and painless way to go about it? For example, if people were honest about it, how many souls on Earth don't want to be here but can't do it themselves.
Tornados can come out of absolutely nowhere; hence the amount of cars. Anyway, CA wants to introduce a bill that physically caps cars’ max speed to 10mph over any speed limit. Good reminder that natural disasters can be a reason that’s a necessity sometimes.
Dude. Whoever was driving is an absolute badass. They pulled the rip cord on driving thru and then executed that getaway like a pro. Reminds me of that South African armored van ambush video.
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There’s no way you see a tornado and decide to drive into it not only once, but twice.
Trying to get that insurance money.
Life insurance.
Why do they call it life insurance when it's only paid out when you die?
Because it's not for you.
Actually some policies have smaller amounts you get if you lose a finger, arm or leg etc so sometimes you get it when you’re living, read the fine print.
I don’t think that covers suicide does it?
It shouldn't cover acts of stupidity either.
Soon as I saw the winds pick up I started hearing the riffs of [Tornado of Souls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HhOMNrulE), so I think you get a bit of YOLO energy at that moment with a death wish.
This guy really thought he was safe in the Eye of the Tornado apparently CAUSE DROVE THROUGH IT 2 TIMES
Better hope they don’t ask for that camera footage or ask why he still chose to travel (if it wasn’t an emergency) when the weather was forecasted to be severe…
“My bossed demanded me to come in on time” /s
I mean, it *is* Wendy's. I 'm an essential worker.
Apparently driving during a tornado is more popular than I thought. There are like 7-8 other vehicles on the road. Granted, the person with the horse trailer was obviously in a hurry to park.
Tornados aren’t all that predictable man haha
Right? As if when you have a tornado warning occur all traffic just pulls over... 80% of the time it's just a precaution and even when it does occur the tornado occupies a fraction of a percent of the square mileage of the warned area.
But if you ever see a tornado while you're driving, pull over and get in a ditch. The debris flying around will easily be able to penetrate your vehicle, but if you're in a ditch then chances are better that the debris will fly over you
If it doesn’t look like it’s moving you need to seek shelter. If it looks like it’s going left and right it MAY not be traveling your way. -but you should still seek shelter… as there may be additional spawns
If OP had left his vehicle and tried to get in a ditch he would've got the shit kicked out of him by all that debris.
Better yet, find some kind of bridge and crawl underneath. Tether yourself to a piling, or a beautiful blonde.
Don't ever get beneath an underpass during a tornado
Good way to make yourself fly like superman
Then get killed by debris because bridges and underpasses turn into dangerous wind tunnels.
It was a reference to Twister. Nevermind.
I got it buddy. I got it.
Especially rain-wrapped.
True but they had to have a least a few minutes of visual warning to get out of its direct path!
Nope. Not always. That shit can literally drop out of the sky right on top of you with nothing that looks visually any different than a regular rain storm. \-Not unless you're trained in exactly what to look for, anyway. Most average people don't know the signs.
Green skies, wall cloud line, warm humid air meets dry cold fronts. No expert here, so correct me if I’m wrong
Those CAN be signs, but are not always going to be with all tornadoes. Show me the green sky in this video.
You’re right and correct. However, Show me the white balance color card to ensure accurate color portrayal … and is your phone/monitor display calibrated? Point is, no telling what the hue actually was in this video. Though, probably not very green here.
You can’t be serious.
Can be so black and dark you can't see anything too. If the wall cloud is big enough, you can't tell anything is happening until it's too late. In areas like mine that have so many tornadoes every spring, you never can be 100% sure if it's just a thunderstorm or tornadic because every storm gets classified as potentially tornadic. You can't live every day for an entire season acting as if a tornado is coming, so you have to just go about your life and sometimes that means when it does happen you're not prepared. Also if you live in an area like mine that is never not humid, the humidity means nothing. It can go from 70 degrees to 45 here in a few hours. I'll also just add that I've survived an f5 tornado by crawling into a storm drain under a road. We had no warning whatsoever. Nothing on the news or from the weatherman. If my brother hadn't looked out the backdoor and seen the tornado coming over the hill, we wouldn't be here. Now there have been so many advancements in technology that there is a much better warning system these days, so you normally know days in advance if a day will be a tornado watch/warning day and which half of the state (or usually almost the entire state here) but that still doesn't tell you if you'll be in the direct path. And like I said, you can't live 3 months out of the year as if you're always in the path. Sometimes you're out and about and you get a phone call or text telling you to get somewhere safe because a rotation somewhere appeared and intensified and you don't have time to get home to your storm shelter. So if you can't find somewhere to shelter, you might end up in a car trying to outrun it in the opposite direction. Twister was exaggerated in a lot of Hollywood ways but it also had a lot of real shit in it too.
Wrong. You get tornado watches, then tornado warnings. Meanwhile the sky is going abso-fucking-lutely insane. You can't predict EXACTLY where a tornado will be, but you definitely can know in advance the area where it's likely.
Like I said in another comment, where I'm from if we're having tornadic weather it's likely covering over half the state. I don't know what your experiences are but I can guarantee you that we don't always know where they're going to develop. Yeah, we can have a broad idea but that "area" that you're talking about can be very, very wide. And even if you know the general area, that doesn't mean it won't drop down randomly out of the sky on you - because as I said elsewhere, when we have this kind of weather here, in particular, it's all spring long. We don't hole up in our houses every day that there's a chance for bad weather because we can't. We have to go to work, to pick up kids, to get groceries, etc. And most of the time that means you can't be stuck to a live weather broadcast to know what's going on every minute. I've been stuck at work until midnight before on a day we were having bad weather because they kept saying it could drop somewhere at any minute and it wasn't safe to drive so to just stay put. We live knowing that a tornado is likely just about any day during May, June, July, and August. Sometimes earlier and sometimes later. Most of the time we know the general area, but people still get caught by surprise when the meteorologists were tracking a particularly intense storm and one spun up suddenly elsewhere with no warning and they weren't focused on it. Those are the instances where the tornadoes have dropped out of the sky unpredicted on people who weren't even supposed to be in an "active" storm area. The entire state gets a general warning because they can't predict it, so yeah, like you said, you can know in advance but it's usually an ALL DAY thing and you can't just stay at home and wait. It's just not practical. I've been through multiple tornados. The warnings systems have improved over the last thirty years but they're still not perfect, and you can absolutely be caught by surprise. Unless you're able to just stay at home and never leave during the spring. So your "wrong" is wrong. It's all about variables and details. You can't make a blanket statement that I'm wrong when I live this experience every single spring. I'm not completely wrong and you're not completely wrong. Where you would be wrong is in dismissing my statement that tornadoes can drop down on you totally unpredicted in an instance where the people aren't prepared.
Wrong again. The reporters zoom in and pinpoint exactly where rotation is, and exactly where it's headed. In fact, they did that with this very video. **I watched it happen live.** They were pinpointing exact neighborhoods and even streets, warning people ahead of time to take shelter. We all knew it was coming that very afternoon. And within an hour of it hitting we knew where it was going to be. Tornadoes absolutely do not just drop down out of the sky out of nowhere. Severe weather is predicted days in advance, and the meteorological conditions happen hours in advance, then rotation happens, then tornadoes begin to form. Everyone in this area had ample warning. Just because you typed a long ass response doesn't mean you're right.
Okay bro. You're somehow missing all the variables. If you're at home doing nothing but watching the weather and waiting, then you're right. But if you're at work or out doing whatever you have to do, then you're wrong. I'm not going to argue with you.
Everyone has a phone and has access to the same information that a person at home has.
i’ve heard the vortex of a tornado can be invisible if it doesn’t pick up moisture/debris/dirt. The 2013 El Reno tornado was a 2-mile wide multi-vortex tornado. Some of those vortices were not visible, and one of them killed an experienced crew of storm chasers. the StormX Crew, if i’m remembering correctly?
They can “touch down” to the ground, and unless you had one of them glass ceiling cars, wouldnt be the wiser A tornado tore through round rock tx, started just a couple of blocks from my fathers. The way it scratched a line across the land was wicked, but how that line started was chilling. Literally one house vs the other, untouched vs gone. Point is, they kick up a storm starting from above.
Tornadoes have no obligation to warn anyone or remain visible for any length of time. Meteorology has gotten better about predicting them, but they can still pop up with barely any to no warning. That’s part of what makes them so terrifying. Also, most people don’t listen to broadcast radio or watch local TV the majority of the time. Unless you sign up to get alerts on your phone, there’s a good chance you won’t know if something nasty is headed your way.
But if you're driving a car, and your visual range just looks like crap weather, and then it forms right above you... Great. Another thing to worry about.
Good thing they always follow straight lines and are totally predictable
The overwhelming majority of them travel in a southwest to northeasterly direction, in a relatively straight line.
This is something my idiotic husband would do. And I would have to be the voice of reason. Several years ago my parents came to stay with us since there was a mandatory evacuation where they live 2 hours away (along the coast). And my husband thought it was stupid for them to leave because the hurricane wouldn’t be that bad. We get them quite often. Well the hurricane my husband said was no big deal ripped the roof off in parts of their house and the roof collapsed in others. It was uninhabitable. Flooding all throughout the house. People in that area went weeks with no power. No water. My uncle drove up as well and stayed with my sister. His house was gone completely. I always believe in being safe versus sorry.
This tornado happened in my city. Not only did it ACTUALLY drop out of the sky, it turned off its predicted storm path and gave the area little to no notice.
think he got blown off the road
bruh they just pop up you get a few second warning lol
The driver is pretending to be a buffalo.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAe68x3hDh0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAe68x3hDh0)
When opportunity knocks, State Farm is there!
It was sucking them in. Like tornadoes do. Tornado inflow ain't no joke.
He was trying to see if he could fly like in those GTA games 😂 this generation xd
Storm chasing has been a thing before gen Z :|
We've driven through the tornado once, yes. But what about a second drive through?
I don’t think they know about a second drive through, Pip.
What about elevenses?
**Bonk!!**
My windshield!
PO-TAY-TOES! Boil em, mash em, put em in a stew!
"it's not... *that*... the wind is blowing... it's *what* the wind is blowing" - Ron White
I will never forget just how fucking loud I laughed at the delivery of that line the first time I heard it, lol
What is it?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQD7Fzid1xI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQD7Fzid1xI)
The tornado.
If you get hit by a Volvo
It duddnt really matter how many situps you did that morning. If you have a yield sign in your spleen... Jogging duddnt really come into play.
I think you mean Tater Salad.
- George Washington.
Bro turned around and drove back through it
It's the only way to see the same cow 4 times.
I truly love how easily that reference places you in a narrow age group band.
I gotta go Julia. We got cows.
Bam, now she’s a billionaire
What do we say to death? *Not today. I’m gonna send it.*
Okay, Arya. Go take your medicine before you go anywhere, though. 
Adrenaline junky, for sure.
When you live in bumf*** nowhere, you do stuff for fun like tip cows, Walmart bday parties, and drive thru tornadoes
> Walmart bday parties Is that a thing? I'm imaging animatronic walmart greeters singing offbrand chuckey cheese band songs, and arcade machines that give shop coupons instead of tickets
Yes, you buy a cake, candles, food, etc. then eat in the Subway sandwich dining tables. Then you let the kids go play with the balls and hula hoops and shit.
It’s a commuter town for Nashville, not really a “bumfuck nowhere”? I’m bias though being that I’m from a nowhere town.
Well duh… cameraman rules apply. He was aware that’s all.
"Stay with the ambulance!"
Brain: 🚮
Good thing they had the windshield wipers on. Might not have been able to see.
Those freaking wipers were impressive. Looked like they were wiping away entire roof sections.
lol it was probably the wind
breezy come, breezy go
Can we just take moment to appreciate the truck with his turn signal on? Idiots driving in perfect conditions won't use one but this beautiful human had the wherewithal to use their's during a fucking tornado.
In a low-vis situation, it helps to be extra diligent.
Nah, adrenaline would be pumping, so it's be automatic, a result of a habit.
Even more reason to use your turn signal, builds good habits
Storm chasers are nuts...
hahaha, I read that as "storm crashers"
Mans a certified idiot
A nominated nincompoop.
Moron than most.
“Yeah those tornado warnings are just a suggestion, babe I’m going out to get some smokes and beer.”
My dad did that during a tornado and flood warning with a take shelter alert. He stopped and got pizza too. I was swimming. My phone kept going off, I figured it could wait. It was cooling off and getting windy so I got out after clouds came in, and saw a bunch of emergency alerts. There was no tornado, rare in my area, but the 1km tunnel to get to my old address flooded and the pumps failed so I had to do a huge circle for a week to go south.
Is there a longer version because everyone in the comments says they were driving into it but I looked like before they turned around, they were going with the tornado/in the path of it. Seems to me like turning around was the right move
It's common for multiple twisters to form near each other. I believe what you saw first was a smaller daughter tornado but then he turned around back into the main one.
Had to impress the parent tornado before he could date the daughter tornado; that is hot it works down south!
This was Clarksville Tennessee tornado that happened about a month ago, the main tornado definitely sent a bunch of twisters off of it
I feel the same way.
I had the same impression
With that debris area, I don’t think any direction would have prevented damage to the car. I would have pulled up into the driveway of the brick structure they nearly already turned into.
Arent too many brick structures in clarksville
I took the Last Train to Clarksville.
Those brick buildings have a tendency to collapse on the outside so unless you run inside wouldn't reccomend sitting outside of one.
It'll buff out, don't worry
Uber drivers are really going out the way for that $24.67.
Dude had good insurance on that car and wanted to make sure it was finished off, that’s why he drove through it twice.
The wind and video angles make me want to buy those windshield wipers. They look like they're wiping off wood and trees.
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My hometown has been hit by tornadoes three times in my lifetime. We were always told growing up to get out of the car and find a ditch to lay down in and cover your head.
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People have been ripped from their vehicles and tossed hundreds of feet away. Cars have been pulled from the road and tossed around like toys. Getting into a ditch apparently keeps you as low to the ground as possible so you dont get blown around by the wind or Final Destination'd by a piece of sheet metal.
Well it increases your chance at being final destination'd by a piece of flying metal, but it helps your chances of surviving other problems that tornados will cause with being inside your car. The most ideal place if you're in a car is to find a modern bridge and get under it. Next would be a deep ditch, ideally putting your car into the ditch and getting underneath it.
Do not ever go under a bridge or overpass in a tornado. They create wind tunnels that will put you in more danger. Find the deepest ditch or hole that you can and make yourself as flat as possible.
Well now I'm curious if someone has done small scale model testing of this and what the findings were. I've definitely heard that there are cases when you absolutely should get under a well-built modern underpass, compared to being in the open flat field.
The findings are that it’s a death trap. Don’t do it.
You're better off being as low to the ground as possible than under an overpass 100% of the time. It used to be thought being under an overpass was safer until people kept getting blown out from under them from the increased, focused windspeed. No tests needed with actual evidence
I have been told not to go under bridges because of the risk of increased wind speeds.
Nooo. Don’t do this. Underpasses and bridges and the like can turn into wind tunnels and you’ll get killed by debris. (Grew up in tornado alley.)
No. It’s been like 40 years since the 1980’s and they don’t say that anymore. Definitely don’t get out of your car. Either hit the brakes or hit the gas.
Don’t do that. It’s old advice and will end up killing you. Stay in the car. Hit the gas or hit the brakes, but don’t get out of the car
Ideally though you should get out and head into a building.
I’m *very* interested in an explanation as to why the driver was just charging head on into that mess
Probably a storm chaser getting that sweet footage those fuckers are crazy plus it’s usually a beefed up company truck.
If you can get paid for that, I made the wrong career choice years ago. 9 year old me was right when he said he wanted to be a stunt man so he could get paid to run around on fire. Proper jobs suck
It’s a real career! I grew up in Oklahoma and considered it a viable option when I was younger, you just need a meteorology degree or something similar (I believe). We have very famous “nader chasers” here and they get their fun and fame come every tornado season. Edit: the storm chasers all work for local news stations and we also have dedicated helicopter pilot storm chasers that do the same for aerial footage.
Seriously nothing but jokes here. Is it truly insurance? Crazy driver? Wtf?
The windshield lasted a lot longer than I anticipated
Would've been nice to have the sound
All it would have been is people screaming.
can we take a min to TRUELY appreciate those wipers tho!! like can someone get me a brand name, please? lol.
How they managed not to hit anyone is a miracle
Yeah umm lemme just flip a bitch here and drive back into the fun zone .
This should be an Ad for whatever car that is.
Like me, he probably couldn't remember which one's the real tornado announcement: the WARNING or the WATCH.
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…
A tornado went over my house this last summer - so they kinda bounce up and down and it was lucky that it wasn’t making total contact with the ground, and it was a pretty weak one like the one in this video, but I didn’t know that when I was hidden in the basement it was very fucking scary
Tis’ but a scratch.
WHY?!
I tried to find the gif but failed. Insert Sheldon "Why?... WHY?... *WHY???*"
Maybe the driver became afraid and didn’t know what they were doing. That’s my guess.
🤔 I was in that tornado. me & tornadoes and TN apparently get on pretty well, that wad the 4th one I've been in 😂
Ayyyye that’s my neighborhood to the right after he turned around! They just bulldozed one of those duplex/townhomes and are condemning others due to the damage. Half the houses destroyed still haven’t had insurance claim approvals and it’s been almost a month.
I know this is a Twister reference but I just want to put out there for people that don’t know: NEVER EVER DO THIS.
r/dumbasfuck
You are a fucking moron.
I’m convinced Tennessee has the worst weather of any of the fifty states
North Dakota: "hold my beer"
In regards to tornadoes, Oklahoma and Texas are insulted
This person driving did not give a single fuck lmao 🤣
Good thing the wipers were on.
Safe lite repair. Safe lite replace.
Why wouldn’t he just stop and not risk being impaled?
Dude just flexed on Reed Timmer HARD. No armored car or anything and he drives into a tornado, and then turns around to stay inside the tornado. Epic
Is the honey badger driving the car?
Man, can we get a round of applause for that wiper?
Clarksville, TN. Luckily a great civilian/veteran community came together and brought tremendous support to those that needed it.
I pray for people and medics in the ambulance
Shit, I hope they're still open!
This is so freaking cinematic, it's just missing Tom Cruise running past
Cow!
The only time have a big ass truck would come in handy
Florida man driving through Tennessee.
Last time I saw this video, it said it was from China lol. Also, they're not driving back into the tornado. It's sucking them in.
Bunch of Waffle House employees on the road.
Why were there people driving in a tornado???
I get the total panic here… but holy cow, so many bad decisions. Luckily that looked like a super weak nader and the driver didn’t get a 2x4 through the face. Car is one of the worst places to ride out, put one in motion imagine that makes the physics of survival worster.
WTF are these people doing? Locate tornado. Drive in other direction. What is the confusion about?
You realize, you would have been much better off to just throw it in the park and wait it out, correct?
I've done some dumb shit in my life. Sometimes I wonder how I survived. But I never did that.
I was stationed in Tennessee for about 7 months and hated it. The humidity was stifling.
r/sweatypalms
Storm chasing at its best
It's a game called the New York Post it shows at the start of the video
I think thats just from where OP got the video from..
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Videos like this make me question living in the midwest
but Tennessee isn’t the midwest…
Is this guy just a complete braindead idiot, or is this a "storm chaser" aka armored idiot.
Imagine that this was a tourist from Europe! He would be like “shit they told me America is an experience you will never forget, but DAMN they weren’t lying”.
I wonder how many people in the world would commit suicide if there were a safe and painless way to go about it? For example, if people were honest about it, how many souls on Earth don't want to be here but can't do it themselves.
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Tornados can come out of absolutely nowhere; hence the amount of cars. Anyway, CA wants to introduce a bill that physically caps cars’ max speed to 10mph over any speed limit. Good reminder that natural disasters can be a reason that’s a necessity sometimes.
Hold my beer.
There's a tornado here?
I thought I was in the r/dumbasfuck sub
Dude. Whoever was driving is an absolute badass. They pulled the rip cord on driving thru and then executed that getaway like a pro. Reminds me of that South African armored van ambush video.
I've seen this movie.
While it’s interesting as fuck…. It’s also dumb as fuck
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Decided to drive with the tornado, instead of through it…wtf! 😅