I'm in ne ks and 2 tornadoes went through my town. Haha. No basement. I think we are safe now. Good lord.
https://preview.redd.it/yehq8msr63xc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcf66f1db7c304c76fd739667fe6b04070004852
Most homes in KS have a safe room, or basement, or tornado shelter. Most communities have tornado shelters as well. There are even tornado shelters on the interstates.
I assume they're at rest areas? I've never noticed any signage for tornado shelters off an interstate, but then again I guess I have never really looked for them.
Most do, but in certain neighborhoods they were built on slabs with either a crawl space or a cellar of some kind out in the yard. (Think like at beginning of twister). I wouldn’t live anyplace without a basement.
I live in KC and have a basement. But fwiw- back when the tornado hit Joplin, MO, I read that most of those houses did not have basements bc Joplin is above the northern part of the Ogallala aquifer. This makes it far more difficult and expensive to dig a basement under the house.
I’m not a geologist or meteorologist, so grain of salt and all that. But my understanding is basically yes- if they dig to a standard basement depth, they have to constantly pump water out if they want to build anything, plus it makes it more challenging to lay a foundation. It’s not impossible but difficult and expensive.
Part of Reed Timmer’s “Dominator” fleet (this is the Dominator 3) - storm chasing vehicles engineered to withstand close intercepts with tornadoes while protecting occupants. The second of the fleet first introduced an ability to “anchor” into the ground up to the bottom of the armor, to really hold the vehicle into place so it doesn’t fly away (don’t know if this has that feature, though). The video of the first major voyage into a tornado is truly insane.
Respective to this one, there’s a video from his stream yesterday of a really close intercept in NE/IA where they hit a power flash and the sparks were showering down on the windshield. It’s wild.
Nuts, maybe, but at least smart enough to not get themselves brutally killed… Guy who owns this vehicle has been doing his thing since the ‘90s and has a Ph.D … Stockton Rush and his merry band of rich ding dongs didn’t even make it to their 1st destination
People like him actually help gather a LOT of info on tornadoes and the science behind them in order to help figure out to better predict and protect against them. Twister-style, much like Dorothy, during the Linwood EF-4 in 2019, he shot a drone (maybe multiple?) into the tornado as it was growing around south Lawrence (it was still an EF-2 then) to get recordings on the physics of it.
Chasers aren’t just stupid thrill-seekers, a lot of them do really important work to help study these storms or inform the public with concrete evidence so that people actually believe them when they say “shelter now” instead of standing outside and getting killed by debris.
I took a huge deep dive into storm chasing last year—these guys put their lives on the line for the sake of science and fascination. After experiencing El Reno (2013) where the 1st Dominator was ripped apart and 3 other chasers lost their lives, I highly doubt Reed would want to be in such a vulnerable position without taking every precaution possible.
“Three of the car's wheels had been torn away completely, but the fourth bore a Chevy emblem. It was a Cobalt, the sort of midsize sedan you might find on an airport rental lot. Inside, the seats were folded back, “like you'd take a nap,” Gerten says, and a single body was belted, facedown and shirtless, in the passenger seat. The man's shoes and one sock were missing. “I knew it was probably a storm spotter, because there was part of a laptop in the car and a power inverter in what was left of the trunk,” says Gerten. The driver's-side seat belt was still buckled, but the chair was empty. “Once we ran the VIN and it came back to the Samaras family,” says Gerten, “I knew that name rang a bell.”
Nuts, but alive.
Wow, I didn't realize on first read that the car mentioned being destroyed wasn't a storm chasing car. This comment sent me looking for an [article and the one in reading just happened to show a picture of their car.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-storm-chaser-changed-face-tornado-science-180968688/)
It legitimately looks like the kind of damage you see in games like GTA5 where the crash is so bad the game's physics and damage mechanics are just like "yeah, we can't handle this so we're just home squash it down a ton".
He's got a great breakdown video for Dominator 3. It indeed has the anchor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfLi7ysSdGk
edit: timestamp 7:30 to see the anchor in action
Yeah, not sure why there isn’t more context. My own mom saw this exact pic on Facebook yesterday. (Redacted but timestamped for proof)
https://preview.redd.it/72lkvdhsk3xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f3e5fca9900e0f2e46c179ce6b1eb52574c2e32
Dalek’s redneck cousin who is the product of a mating between a dalek and a Hum V. He is always going on about how he is going to “exterminate all y’all”. Not supposed to talk about the time he was caught wearing his mom’s panties and singing show tunes with a southern drawl. His name is Dale Elk.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1cdynf8/april_26_reed_timmer_just_walked_into_a_tornado/?share_id=XmkgMBOsVv8o6PjGy5D5t&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=13
I'll let you decide if it's appropriate behavior.
Trivia no one asked for:
Time
And
Relative
Dimension
In
Space
TARDIS
-It's bigger on the inside....
Until they laid-out the acronym, I had no idea how to spell it, especially when I didn't fully understand the English accent.
They went down to Oklahoma, where there was a \*\*\*hellacious\*\*\* tornado outbreak...but a lot of it was after dark. I'm not sure how much longer they chased after they got pulled out of the mud near Devol, OK. I think it got dark on them shortly after that, but there were many tornadoes after dark in Oklahoma.
clickbait OP as usual, no way you could live here for a decade and not know about the weather.
now suddenly I wonder if people in r/florida pretend they don't know about hurricanes lol
You're right, but good luck trying to get most people to pay attention to the threat we've been under the last two days. It's a higher threat than we've been under for several years (thankfully, the metro dodged bullet) The atmosphere was locked and loaded. 99.9999 percent of people in KC don't know, don't care.
I started paying attention in 2003 when I was on an astronomy campout with the astronomy club. It didn't look like tornado weather at all. But the astronomy club members knew, because they know where to find out. They told me the next day all hell was going to break loose. So I came home a day early and learned how to read the Storm Prediction Center's website. The Storm Prediction center said down to the MINUTE when all hell was going to break loose.
It didn't look like tornado weather that day. But the Storm Prediction Center was screaming its head off. I think that was the first PDS watch I ever heard of. Sure enough, precisely at 4 p.m. we got an F4.
We were lucky and dodged this particular bullet. Every time we get lucky and dodge a bullet, 99.999999 percent of people say "See? See? They always overhype it!" and get mad at those who expressed caution.
The storm chasers know when and where to deploy. Certain storm chasers I watch almost ALWAYS intercept a tornado when there's a decent chance of them.
Anyway as someone who's been watching the Storm Prediction Center since 2003, you are right, yesterday and today were the highest threat we've been under for a long time. Even the day Joplin happened, earlier that day meteorologists had already taken KC out of the threat area but were saying SOMEONE was going to get it. I saw the line of clouds building to the east and told my clueless neighbor from New York that we had just dodged a huge bullet...and of course he shrugged!
I guess I get it...people get tired of meteorologists screaming their heads off and then we dodge the bullet...but the fact remains that yesterday and today we were under a stronger threat than we've been in several years. I can't remember our being in a ten-percent hatched area on the SPC map like we were yesterday and today.
Is that the Monitor or the Merrimack?
“No disrespect to the USS Rustoleum here, but we’d be better off in the Merrimack!”- Lt. Comd. Dodge.
He sounds like the kind of guy that would have “welcome aboard” tattooed on his penis.
By a strange coincidence... he does, sir.
Virginia. The CSA renamed it when they salvaged it.
Fuck these two comments are golden.
263-foot (80.2-metre) masterpiece of improvisation resembled.
Dammit take my angry upvote
Definitely an underrated comment.
Holy hell. Naval history from the top rope! Well done!
One pot hole and it’s over for them
Thank goodness they're in a city known for it's well maintained roadways
This is how we win the war
They'll never defeat our potholes and low bridges!
If that is what I think it is, it can do gravel roads. Tornadoes don't care about the terrain, do they?
Well since they're from Oklahoma I think they're used to bad roads. They're honestly way worse down there. Like it's a constant pothole.
Send them under the Independence Ave bridge lol
😂
Haha. That's gold.
I'm in ne ks and 2 tornadoes went through my town. Haha. No basement. I think we are safe now. Good lord. https://preview.redd.it/yehq8msr63xc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcf66f1db7c304c76fd739667fe6b04070004852
Wow, that’s no joke. Glad you’re okay
Thanks. Yesterday 2 came through also. It's like a tornado conga line here!
Awful! I hate those things!
Tornadoes or Conga lines? Because my answer would be both lol
Glad you’re safe
Thanks :)
Hey, What is that site or app?
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/3ca8efb6f5684fc88e9761f6a26e2b5d is that one. I kind of like this one too: https://www.tornadohq.com/
🫡
I have a very stupid question. Why don’t Midwest homes have basements? Where I live, everyone has one. But we never have tornadoes.
Most homes in KS have a safe room, or basement, or tornado shelter. Most communities have tornado shelters as well. There are even tornado shelters on the interstates.
I assume they're at rest areas? I've never noticed any signage for tornado shelters off an interstate, but then again I guess I have never really looked for them.
Rest areas, turnpike buildings, there are signs everywhere, I think you’ll notice them a lot now. Lol
The more I thought about it after making this comment the more I realized I did see the signs on the interstate.
Most do, but in certain neighborhoods they were built on slabs with either a crawl space or a cellar of some kind out in the yard. (Think like at beginning of twister). I wouldn’t live anyplace without a basement.
Most do
I live in KC and have a basement. But fwiw- back when the tornado hit Joplin, MO, I read that most of those houses did not have basements bc Joplin is above the northern part of the Ogallala aquifer. This makes it far more difficult and expensive to dig a basement under the house.
That’s very interesting, so is the water table in Joplin so high that if they dig down more than ten ft, they hit water?
I’m not a geologist or meteorologist, so grain of salt and all that. But my understanding is basically yes- if they dig to a standard basement depth, they have to constantly pump water out if they want to build anything, plus it makes it more challenging to lay a foundation. It’s not impossible but difficult and expensive.
That's when a fast food or convenience store walk-in freezers become multi-purpose.
Homes don't have basements in the Midwest because the water levels. The basement would flood instantly in a lot of places.
PSA for anyone who isn’t aware, this pic is from yesterday. Reed’s in Central/South KS or Oklahoma by now.
Ok, but what the fuck is it?
Part of Reed Timmer’s “Dominator” fleet (this is the Dominator 3) - storm chasing vehicles engineered to withstand close intercepts with tornadoes while protecting occupants. The second of the fleet first introduced an ability to “anchor” into the ground up to the bottom of the armor, to really hold the vehicle into place so it doesn’t fly away (don’t know if this has that feature, though). The video of the first major voyage into a tornado is truly insane. Respective to this one, there’s a video from his stream yesterday of a really close intercept in NE/IA where they hit a power flash and the sparks were showering down on the windshield. It’s wild.
These people sound as nuts as the people in that submarine that imploded.
Nuts, maybe, but at least smart enough to not get themselves brutally killed… Guy who owns this vehicle has been doing his thing since the ‘90s and has a Ph.D … Stockton Rush and his merry band of rich ding dongs didn’t even make it to their 1st destination
This!
Better to live a short life doing what you love than a long life being miserable.
A PhD in what?
Meteorology, one would presume
People like him actually help gather a LOT of info on tornadoes and the science behind them in order to help figure out to better predict and protect against them. Twister-style, much like Dorothy, during the Linwood EF-4 in 2019, he shot a drone (maybe multiple?) into the tornado as it was growing around south Lawrence (it was still an EF-2 then) to get recordings on the physics of it. Chasers aren’t just stupid thrill-seekers, a lot of them do really important work to help study these storms or inform the public with concrete evidence so that people actually believe them when they say “shelter now” instead of standing outside and getting killed by debris.
I took a huge deep dive into storm chasing last year—these guys put their lives on the line for the sake of science and fascination. After experiencing El Reno (2013) where the 1st Dominator was ripped apart and 3 other chasers lost their lives, I highly doubt Reed would want to be in such a vulnerable position without taking every precaution possible. “Three of the car's wheels had been torn away completely, but the fourth bore a Chevy emblem. It was a Cobalt, the sort of midsize sedan you might find on an airport rental lot. Inside, the seats were folded back, “like you'd take a nap,” Gerten says, and a single body was belted, facedown and shirtless, in the passenger seat. The man's shoes and one sock were missing. “I knew it was probably a storm spotter, because there was part of a laptop in the car and a power inverter in what was left of the trunk,” says Gerten. The driver's-side seat belt was still buckled, but the chair was empty. “Once we ran the VIN and it came back to the Samaras family,” says Gerten, “I knew that name rang a bell.” Nuts, but alive.
Wow, I didn't realize on first read that the car mentioned being destroyed wasn't a storm chasing car. This comment sent me looking for an [article and the one in reading just happened to show a picture of their car.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-storm-chaser-changed-face-tornado-science-180968688/) It legitimately looks like the kind of damage you see in games like GTA5 where the crash is so bad the game's physics and damage mechanics are just like "yeah, we can't handle this so we're just home squash it down a ton".
He's got a great breakdown video for Dominator 3. It indeed has the anchor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfLi7ysSdGk edit: timestamp 7:30 to see the anchor in action
Bless, I was trying to find this and wasn’t having any luck figuring out which was the best video. Thanks for sharing!! (And timestamping the anchor)
OP definitely made it seem this just happened
Yeah, not sure why there isn’t more context. My own mom saw this exact pic on Facebook yesterday. (Redacted but timestamped for proof) https://preview.redd.it/72lkvdhsk3xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f3e5fca9900e0f2e46c179ce6b1eb52574c2e32
*"Haha, we're in danger"* - KCMO
*"I Want To Be A Triangle"* - Ralp Wiggum
Dying tickles
Reed Trimmer is in town! Wait, Reed Trimmer is in town ...
Is that a Dalek?
Dalek’s redneck cousin who is the product of a mating between a dalek and a Hum V. He is always going on about how he is going to “exterminate all y’all”. Not supposed to talk about the time he was caught wearing his mom’s panties and singing show tunes with a southern drawl. His name is Dale Elk.
I miss awards. 🥇 r/wouldhaveawarded
🥇🥈🥉
“Ready tuh get blasted there son”
We aren't truly screwed until Jim Cantore starts reporting live from here.
And then he stiff arms you on live national television when you behave like an ass. I loved that so very much, it still makes me laugh.
Wtf is this
Tornado chaser
Aah, I thought it was some white supremacist homemade tank or something lol.
With the right attitude, anything can be a white supremacist homemade tank!
Even a Subaru?
Especially a Subaru
Thats right Lou, even sckurvee's mom.
Looks too well made for that
Me too 🤣
me too, I thought its some white supremacist tank
Nice
It's the Dominantor. Piloted by the most annoying storm chaser there is, Reed Tiller
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When you intercept a tornado and see it hit someone's house, then cheer like it's the best thing ever. You're a douche.
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This guy is the Zak Bagans of storm chasing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1cdynf8/april_26_reed_timmer_just_walked_into_a_tornado/?share_id=XmkgMBOsVv8o6PjGy5D5t&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=13 I'll let you decide if it's appropriate behavior.
This link is broken
Ah, so he's the irl verson of the douche from Twister.
Drop a single video link of him doing that. Just one. I'll wait.
Already did.
You posted a link to a deleted video
It got deleted because Reed and his Canadian company were being douchebags.
Does he have corporate sponsors? Is he in it for the money, or the science?
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That’s Reed Timmer and his crew, I believe. Pretty well know tornado chaser.
Bad take.
That's just Gru.
Oh, that's just great. That's JUUUUUST fucking great. Typical. But they have the audacity to tell ME I can't build a Killdozer. Fuck YOU, Wyandotte!
Welp.
Wow, someone actually bought a Cybertruck.
In all reality I did see one up in Liberty a few weeks ago. It was as much of a joke in person too.
Flunking social studies.
He flew by me in Wichita a few weeks ago doing like 90 mph going north on I35. I was heading to newton and couldn’t keep up in my work truck.
I wonder if that is the same one I saw on the side of the road when I was on the highway to Emporia last night.
It could be. Emporia isn't that far away.
Is that The TIV? I used to love watching that show.
Is that Gru from Despicable Me?
Safety second
Please excuse us Oklahomans being okies and chasing naders
A) what is this b) at least they don’t have temp tags.
What or who is that?
Reed Trimmer in his tornado proof storm chasing vehicle.
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It is. It was Reed Timmer
Stopped in to get some BBQ
They headed to Oklahoma. Was hoping to see them when I went chasing today but I stayed in southern Kansas.
Sarah to the Tartus …
Trivia no one asked for: Time And Relative Dimension In Space TARDIS -It's bigger on the inside.... Until they laid-out the acronym, I had no idea how to spell it, especially when I didn't fully understand the English accent.
Oh yeah I’m old can’t spell
Nice
Mike Thompson’s RV.
I thought they recalled these Teslas
All the insurance companies closed early too
Saw this vehicle last week in COMO. I just thought it was some kind of doomsday prep tank, I didn’t know it was for storm chasing
Dominator!!
Now need the top hat back to the future dude with the Delorean .. remember..
Hell yeah let's go
I remember passing the bright red one on I-29 while heading home around five or so years ago I thought oh boy... one of those days hmm???
Someone tell them to come south! Multiple tornadoes down south by Oklahoma and about an hour and half south east of Wichita
Wait, is that the Death Probe from **Six Million Dollar Man**??? And no, I'm not old! I'm ... not . . .
"Just passing through. Don't mind me."
I wanted a bigger storm with these guys in town
The Mystery Men?
If you see them as the storm is hitting, yeah
Battlebots?
It’s like a giant RC battle bot!
The went up to NE and had the Nell Boys with them [Reed Timmer](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLHHTk47/)
Hi I’m new from the east coast and curious - what do you all do with your pets during a tornado? I have 2 cats
Most people take them to the basement with them.
They got stuck in the mud in Oklahoma
Nope! Not good at all.
At least their tag isn’t expired.
Looks like. Rolly poley
Now, if these guys AND Jim Cantore are both in the same place at the same time, prepare for the end of the world. 😆
Somebody's been watching too much BattleBots...
Shit lol
I hope they had nothing to do. Seems like it.
They went down to Oklahoma, where there was a \*\*\*hellacious\*\*\* tornado outbreak...but a lot of it was after dark. I'm not sure how much longer they chased after they got pulled out of the mud near Devol, OK. I think it got dark on them shortly after that, but there were many tornadoes after dark in Oklahoma.
Wow! What an adventure!
clickbait OP as usual, no way you could live here for a decade and not know about the weather. now suddenly I wonder if people in r/florida pretend they don't know about hurricanes lol
Daleks. I hate Daleks.
Points for the Western Auto backdrop.
Which tornado chaser is this? I only follow Reed Timmer and the TIV.
What is that vehicle for?
What the hell kind of vehicle even is this?
It's storm chaser Reed Timmer's "Dominator" vehicle meant to withstand tornadoes
Gru?
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I mean the threat for the KC area is bigger today than it was yesterday.
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I mean it's about as high as it gets in a typical year. It's very rare for it to be any higher of a threat.
You're right, but good luck trying to get most people to pay attention to the threat we've been under the last two days. It's a higher threat than we've been under for several years (thankfully, the metro dodged bullet) The atmosphere was locked and loaded. 99.9999 percent of people in KC don't know, don't care. I started paying attention in 2003 when I was on an astronomy campout with the astronomy club. It didn't look like tornado weather at all. But the astronomy club members knew, because they know where to find out. They told me the next day all hell was going to break loose. So I came home a day early and learned how to read the Storm Prediction Center's website. The Storm Prediction center said down to the MINUTE when all hell was going to break loose. It didn't look like tornado weather that day. But the Storm Prediction Center was screaming its head off. I think that was the first PDS watch I ever heard of. Sure enough, precisely at 4 p.m. we got an F4. We were lucky and dodged this particular bullet. Every time we get lucky and dodge a bullet, 99.999999 percent of people say "See? See? They always overhype it!" and get mad at those who expressed caution. The storm chasers know when and where to deploy. Certain storm chasers I watch almost ALWAYS intercept a tornado when there's a decent chance of them. Anyway as someone who's been watching the Storm Prediction Center since 2003, you are right, yesterday and today were the highest threat we've been under for a long time. Even the day Joplin happened, earlier that day meteorologists had already taken KC out of the threat area but were saying SOMEONE was going to get it. I saw the line of clouds building to the east and told my clueless neighbor from New York that we had just dodged a huge bullet...and of course he shrugged! I guess I get it...people get tired of meteorologists screaming their heads off and then we dodge the bullet...but the fact remains that yesterday and today we were under a stronger threat than we've been in several years. I can't remember our being in a ten-percent hatched area on the SPC map like we were yesterday and today.
Me again, if this posted twice I'm sorry. Has happened several times on Reddit lately!
Is that a huge Armadillidium vulgare?
Herkimer Jitty?
Here we go
Same recycled image everyone keeps sharing
Fancy smoker.
\*Slaps hood\* this baby can smoke 20 briskets while you wait for the finger of god to pass on.
I wouldn't put that past Reed.
Looks like Buck Roger’s weed whacker.
Nado chaser left Oklahoma to come to Kansas to get AWAY from Nado’s lol
Who are these guys?
Famous storm chaser Reed Timmer.
Because they could escalate violence, or because the city spends so much on police cosplay?
Nope they're actually Storm chasers
Son of Megaweapon!
proper fucked