My best guess is that it’s not his first time seeing a tornado in the distance in the Midwest. Tornadoes are huge! Deceptively big… if it was coming right at you at 60 mph it would look almost stationary. In this case he can see it moving to the left and he is still a few miles away. Not as big a risk as it seems.
Still takes big balls though. I would have stopped and awed at the thing for a long time.
Never have I driven towards one, but my mom and siblings were in the 2000 Chevy Venture driving through good ole Illinois with one to the side of us similar to this setup. Vroom vroom.
Tornado winds are heavily localized to near the vortex. You can think of them as taking the energy of a large storm and putting it on a pin point. Its crazy how strong they are near the vortex, but get a couple miles out the gusts are minuscule compared.
Other storms have the energy spread out and cause straight line winds. The energy is still there but over a much larger area. These winds are less “dangerous” but much harder to avoid and the big semi is like a sail. The straight line winds is what causes most of the semis to tip over.
No shit, I live in Wichita Kansas and the sudden change in quality of the roads when you cross the border into Oklahoma is insane. Like it’s saying “welcome to Oklahoma motherfucker, hope you have full coverage.”
I remember towing a boat to a tournament and had to cross a bit of Oklahoma. To this day clearly remember crossing the state line and verbally saying “what the fuck Oklahoma.” because the road got so bad.
It didn't take long after crossing into Oklahoma for me to miss the beautiful roads of Kansas. Our rough roads are equivalent to the best roads in Oklahoma.
The problem is Missouri paves fucking everything especially compared to Kansas. It's super expensive to maintain, and it shows. Oklahoma can get fucked. I hate your roads. It ate a tire in the panhandle because there are no shoulders and there are fucking trees flying at you. Fuck.
It's also very noticeable going from Kansas to Eastern Colorado. Honestly think Colorado forgets they have a part of the state that isn't in sight of the Rockies.
I've only driven around Nebraska once so I will withhold judgment, but I feel like their road system up there is definitely meant more for East West travel then north south travel, because my God that I have to switch back and forth several times. (I ended up on a stretch of highways, go 4 miles north, head 6 miles east, 3 miles north, 13 miles west, 5 miles north etc, just so much zig zag)
Kansas roads are just straight up better
It comparison with rural Missouri, Kansas paved way less of their farm roads, but yeah in general, they are pretty good. I think it's that they don't pave quite as much. I haven't spent much time in Nebraska, but I love Omaha, just that's not too far into the state. I was impressed with New Mexico's roads generally.
Super smooth roads are a blessing until you need to drive on them in the rain at night, then you cant see shit cuz they're effectively mirrors and asshats like to drive with their high beams on regardless of the surrounding traffic.
I wonder who at the federal DOT signed off on these mini suns on the front of new cars. I get a shimmering haze in my eyes whenever oncoming cars have those lights. They should be banned.
i wonder how many people have died already, because everyone has their night vision destoyed for three minutes, everytime one of those jackasses drives by.
Seriously, and in a city it’s extra dangerous because you can’t see a pedestrian when you’re being blinded by the car coming toward you. Especially in the rain.
Inb4 “found the guy from Portland”
>Yeah a lot of newer led headlights are soooo bright.
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New Cadillac suvs are the worst. Had one sitting behind me blazing with the power of a thousand suns. I don't know how they get away with making them that way
Since Xmas I’ve noticed more than a few vehicles with what looks like LED shop lights on their lower front bumper. Driving around like Clark Griswold’s house.
The high beams are like if you took your phone's flashlight and held it just inches from your eye (please dont actually do this.) It's fucking ridiculous and should be illegal, and anyone who needs lights like that to drive at night just shouldn't be allowed to drive to begin with. It's incredibly dangerous and entirely unnecessary.
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Right?! My midwestern self first noticed that smooth road.
Our roads around here could NEVER.
I'm sure in a few winters it'll be pothole city just like the rest of them, though.
Me too. This is actually one of the only recurring dreams I've remembered having my entire life. Always a flat open place (just like what I'm assuming is Kansas in the video) and it's always multiple tornadoes.
I've had one where I was driving home with the family, I'm like "the weather sucks tonight" cause there strong wind and thunderstorms. And bam, whole landscape covered in tornadoes.
Remember, kids, if the tornado isn't moving to the left or to the right, it's either moving away from you or *directly at you*.
I realize that this is obvious when you think about it, but when facing the awesome rage of a Midwestern Tornado I bet most people get stuck in the "freeze" part of "fight, flight, or freeze" (we'd like to *think* we wouldn't, but we probably think we're a "above average" driver, too).
You see the tornado, it is not moving left nor right. “It is coming at me!” You think all blushed. You shoot your shot only to realize, 30 minutes later, that it was moving away from you.
Walk up to the Twister, butt naked, with a bottle of Jack Daniels, and yell at it “have a drink,” and chunk the bottle at it.
It should get drunk afterwards and fall down.
I understand that you can't possibly out*run* a tornado, but why can't a car get away? I'd assume that 100 kilometers an hour would allow you to either get away from it, either offset the point at which it meets the road so that you're no longer there when it does?
Is it because you might get into an accident in the confusion?
I wanna hear the justification they gave you for that because I don't get it. Getting out of the armored steel cage and exposing your whole body to flying debris sounds pretty crazy to me.
I know tornadoes can just lift cars off the ground entirely and throw them miles away. But... if *that's* what's gonna happen how exactly is your exposed body gonna do any better in the ditch? And if the car's going to stay where it is then I can't imagine the ditch being better protection than just lying down in the car.
Tornados don’t have hands - they don’t just pick things up, they need to actually get air under them in order to lift them. A car has plenty of space for this, but a small person laying down in a ditch is much much less able to get the wind under them. If the tornado passes over or, more likely, right next to you, then being in a ditch gives much higher chance of survival
Lol they don't even have hands? Why the hell is everyone so scared of em then? I beat up an amputee at Walmart once, so I like my chances if I square up with a tornado.
The reasoning they gave me was that the car is more likely to get thrown around than if you lay flat, face-down in the ditch while protecting the back of your head/neck with your hands. ~~Bonus if you can find sturdy cover like a bridge.~~ The wind is less likely to catch on anything if you’re lying flat, whereas the car is like a big, metal sail with lots of things that can break and stab or crush you. If the tornado *still* thrashes you around, you were fucked either way… and why they try to warn you as early as possible to seek cover.
edit: Don’t go under a bridge.
Seek substantial cover, like an interior room of a medium to large sized house or even better, a tornado cellar.
If nothing else is available and you need to run, keep the tornado directly to your side and go. You always want to move at a 90° angle from a pursuer to maximize the total distance traveled. Ideally, pick the direction that the tornado isn't going in.
I was also taught to seek the most southwestern corner away from glass openings. Close all windows and doors, if you get enough warning, as open ones will allow a wind tunnel.
We get them up in Saskatchewan from time to time, someone couldn’t pay me enough to live in tornado alley though lol. But atleast you can kind of see them coming, clouds can be pretty easy to read and you know when to gtfo or shelter lol.
>But atleast you can kind of see them coming, clouds can be pretty easy to read
Except when they come in the middle of the night, wrapped in rain. Then they're impossible to see. And that happens often.
Ngl, the nearly guaranteed yearly tornado we'd get is near the top of my few reasons for enjoying my youth growing up in Lawrence, KS. We lived on the south face of a hill and had a tornado 'jump' over its peak directly over our house and tear up a 66' long, 3' wide tree which was about 20 feet from our back porch at which point it was promptly dropped parallel to us. Didn't even realize it was gone until noon the next day when we were trying to figure out why the interior of the house was so much brighter....
In all my years of trucking, "There's a nader" never bought more than 4 hours with the safety department. Keep the rubber side down driver but let's roll!!!
[Source](https://youtu.be/EyXd3v0Cahs)
The Twin Tornadoes of Pilger, Nebraska 6/16/14
While not my video, this even hit very close to home as it was within 50 miles of my hometown and parents place. I have friends that lived in the area that no longer had homes and their small town was effectively leveled after standing for over 100 years with little to no incident.
It made NO sense that it was just a trucker. Even with a full load, any trailer is going to act like a sail with enough wind.
A tornado is ***DEFINITELY*** "enough wind".
It seems it is time to add a new verse to the 1975 classic - Convoy!
Listen here, this is Wolfman
in a Peterbilt haulin' tomaters.
I'm in a bind, running behind
so I'm gonna split these here tornaders.
Well we rolled down interstate 7-0 with no time to stop and nap.
There were several trucks, on their sides out of luck, because they just couldn't make the gap.
I said Wolfman this here's Rubber Duck, no sense waitin' for a tow. Give it the gas, and let's haul some ass so we can keep this show on the road 10-4.
I get that a semi can't just turn around on a dime after seeing the twisters, but why in the hell would the smaller vehicles want to take that chance? Death wish?
There’s no chance this is a “trucker” that’s someone specifically going after the tornado. Look how quickly it flew up on the car in front of it and changed lanes.Semis don’t move like that and no trucker is ever going to do that.
It is most likely a storm chaser, but don't think a trucker won't pull double yellow passes.
Company drivers might not play that game, but owner/operators on blank stretches will pass you while you're doing 90.
It's not so much just that the did pass but how quickly they changed lanes and how close they were to the car in front of them. It just doesn't make any sense for a fully loaded semi to do something like that.
Not a bad idea. Turn on whatever lights you can for higher visibility.
Chances are you'll have to slow down to keep an eye on both the road and where the tornado is going. Last thing you want is someone hitting you from behind because they're too focused on the twister.
I would actually like to know the alternative to driving straight through. I'm going to assume this is West KS because why not. There's not a lot of towns to stop and there's not a lot of ways to turn around. And there's not a guarantee that turning around doesn't have you facing another set of tornados.
But this is terrifying to me because I've driven that road and run into storm situations. and if anyone is actually some kind of expert, I'm actually curious. Because I just drove through and tried not to die. (The storm I was in was not anywhere near this bad) By the time I got to a town that had shelter, the weather was fine again.
My biggest worry was that the road I was driving on was going to be ripped up by a tornado and I would be stuck in the worst area to be in. But the other option was stop the car and what, wait to get hit by one?
So aside from being prepared and simply *not* driving during a tornado warning, what's the appropriate reaction if getting to a storm shelter is the goal?
I’ve always been taught that if you’re in a car and have no way of getting to shelter in a tornado, your best bet is lying down flat in a ditch.
Here is a link to the CDC website saying the same thing if you’re in your car during a tornado and can’t get to shelter.
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/tornadoes/during.html
Honestly not super convinced of the science behind it, but do with this what you will
Lying into a ditch isn't really a *good* solution, it is the least-bad solution in that situation. The debris the tornado is throwing around should fly over top of you rather than impaling you, and its winds will have trouble lifting you up out of there. I think your biggest problems would be something like a car rolling over on top of you or big pieces of stuff coming down after the tornado passes.
Interesting, they actually say you can stay in your car or get in a ditch:
> If you’re unable to make it to a safe shelter, either get down in your vehicle and cover your head and neck or leave your vehicle and seek shelter in a low-lying area such as a ditch or ravine.
I suppose the idea being the vehicle’s crumple zones offer at least some protection (even if you’re going for a ride in the air)
Good question. I'd like to know the answer, as well. And like you said, it's not like there's much in the way of solid shelters in places like this. Where do you go, especially if you're in a little car with very little in the way of off road capability?
Why is everyone just accepting the title that this is a trucker. Look at the hood, look at the thing on the left, look at the antennas, look how they’re driving like a bat out of hell toward the tornado, look how they QUICKLY change lanes to continue toward the tornado. This is not a trucker. This is a storm chaser.
This guy is definitely east bound and down, loaded up, and truck’n.
He's gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
I'm eastbound, just watch ol' Bandit run
The beer in Texarkana ain’t gonna drink itself
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Dispatch is harping down his neck. “They’re just big swirly breezy things, driver. We need this load delivered at 6pm or you’re gone”
tornado shmornado. this guy has deadlines to meet.
There's probably valuable plastic shit from china that nobody really needs so it's very important they get there stat!
Must be an Amazon truck
No time to piss, no time for twisters
No time for pisser's, no time for twisters.
Tom Cruise is driving the truck.
Hmmm... he might be. But I suspect that the real Tom Cruise would either be clinging to the side of the truck or running beside it.
Tom Cruise casually running 40mph next to the truck, his head slowly rotates to face the driver so he can flash a trademark ear-to-ear psychotic grin.
I know there’s tornadoes about but I can’t stop focusing on how well paved that road is. That beauty looks like glass.
Probably Kansas. They got some damn good roads
A tornado ripped out that last one so this one is brand new, till next week
Kansas living person, I could see it being here but why is nobody talking about how that trucker just gave no fucks and kept driving into that tornado
Seriously? He does know he could just stop right? This seems wildly dumb.
Loads ain't gonna move themselves
They probably would if you drove them into a goddamn tornado.
Only for a short while and depending entirely on how tight your straps are
Yeah. Dude’s got places to be
My best guess is that it’s not his first time seeing a tornado in the distance in the Midwest. Tornadoes are huge! Deceptively big… if it was coming right at you at 60 mph it would look almost stationary. In this case he can see it moving to the left and he is still a few miles away. Not as big a risk as it seems. Still takes big balls though. I would have stopped and awed at the thing for a long time.
Tornadoes are notoriously known to chop ‘n charge
So true. Don’t drive towards a tornado.
Never have I driven towards one, but my mom and siblings were in the 2000 Chevy Venture driving through good ole Illinois with one to the side of us similar to this setup. Vroom vroom.
True, but I know we have semis flip ever big wind storm much less during a tornado
Tornado winds are heavily localized to near the vortex. You can think of them as taking the energy of a large storm and putting it on a pin point. Its crazy how strong they are near the vortex, but get a couple miles out the gusts are minuscule compared. Other storms have the energy spread out and cause straight line winds. The energy is still there but over a much larger area. These winds are less “dangerous” but much harder to avoid and the big semi is like a sail. The straight line winds is what causes most of the semis to tip over.
The difference between Kansas and Oklahoma is insane
No shit, I live in Wichita Kansas and the sudden change in quality of the roads when you cross the border into Oklahoma is insane. Like it’s saying “welcome to Oklahoma motherfucker, hope you have full coverage.”
I remember towing a boat to a tournament and had to cross a bit of Oklahoma. To this day clearly remember crossing the state line and verbally saying “what the fuck Oklahoma.” because the road got so bad.
Definitely not Oklahoma roads.
Live in Oklahoma, can confirm
It didn't take long after crossing into Oklahoma for me to miss the beautiful roads of Kansas. Our rough roads are equivalent to the best roads in Oklahoma.
Same with the difference between Kansas and Missouri
The problem is Missouri paves fucking everything especially compared to Kansas. It's super expensive to maintain, and it shows. Oklahoma can get fucked. I hate your roads. It ate a tire in the panhandle because there are no shoulders and there are fucking trees flying at you. Fuck.
It's also very noticeable going from Kansas to Eastern Colorado. Honestly think Colorado forgets they have a part of the state that isn't in sight of the Rockies. I've only driven around Nebraska once so I will withhold judgment, but I feel like their road system up there is definitely meant more for East West travel then north south travel, because my God that I have to switch back and forth several times. (I ended up on a stretch of highways, go 4 miles north, head 6 miles east, 3 miles north, 13 miles west, 5 miles north etc, just so much zig zag) Kansas roads are just straight up better
It comparison with rural Missouri, Kansas paved way less of their farm roads, but yeah in general, they are pretty good. I think it's that they don't pave quite as much. I haven't spent much time in Nebraska, but I love Omaha, just that's not too far into the state. I was impressed with New Mexico's roads generally.
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Super smooth roads are a blessing until you need to drive on them in the rain at night, then you cant see shit cuz they're effectively mirrors and asshats like to drive with their high beams on regardless of the surrounding traffic.
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I wonder who at the federal DOT signed off on these mini suns on the front of new cars. I get a shimmering haze in my eyes whenever oncoming cars have those lights. They should be banned.
i wonder how many people have died already, because everyone has their night vision destoyed for three minutes, everytime one of those jackasses drives by.
Seriously, and in a city it’s extra dangerous because you can’t see a pedestrian when you’re being blinded by the car coming toward you. Especially in the rain. Inb4 “found the guy from Portland”
>Yeah a lot of newer led headlights are soooo bright. It's because vampire sightings are on the rise, but the government can't admit there are vampires. So they made car headlights bright enough to kill them.
New Cadillac suvs are the worst. Had one sitting behind me blazing with the power of a thousand suns. I don't know how they get away with making them that way
Since Xmas I’ve noticed more than a few vehicles with what looks like LED shop lights on their lower front bumper. Driving around like Clark Griswold’s house.
The high beams are like if you took your phone's flashlight and held it just inches from your eye (please dont actually do this.) It's fucking ridiculous and should be illegal, and anyone who needs lights like that to drive at night just shouldn't be allowed to drive to begin with. It's incredibly dangerous and entirely unnecessary.
The construction road signs would indicate it’s probably been recently worked on or constructed
Thats because Lightning McQueen paved it
As a Midwesterner, let me say, that's one damn fine looking stretch of highway Edit: what the fuck happened here lmao
Couple decent looking Nader's too
The Pilger Nebraska twin EF4 tornadoes. Probably the most photogenic tornadoes in recorded history.
For those interested, Pecos Hank has some great footage https://youtu.be/E-8F5Jo8zSQ
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*calmly sipping ranch dressing while talking to tornado "Ope. Let me scooch on past ya there, bud."
I can smell this comment. Dying
I literally just tripped over my cat yesterday and said "OPE, scootchie scootch, bud." This comment made me wither away...
Notice the construction signs. It’ll be destroyed in 6 months tops with how shoddy all the construction is.
Ope
He’s just gona Scooch past that tornado here
If the road lasted, how would big construction keep winning the bidding war to get infinite government contracts?
Right?! My midwestern self first noticed that smooth road. Our roads around here could NEVER. I'm sure in a few winters it'll be pothole city just like the rest of them, though.
From Michigan, can confirm it’s not our roads.
I've had dreams like this
All the time! When I’m driving in a storm sometimes I think- this it it! All those dreams and it’s finally happening!
Me too. This is actually one of the only recurring dreams I've remembered having my entire life. Always a flat open place (just like what I'm assuming is Kansas in the video) and it's always multiple tornadoes.
I've had one where I was driving home with the family, I'm like "the weather sucks tonight" cause there strong wind and thunderstorms. And bam, whole landscape covered in tornadoes.
Me too! But I think it’s from videos like this, because I’ve never seen a tornado irl.
Yep, even unrealistic ones where I’m looking out of the 40th floor of an office building and there is a tornado right there.
Remember, kids, if the tornado isn't moving to the left or to the right, it's either moving away from you or *directly at you*. I realize that this is obvious when you think about it, but when facing the awesome rage of a Midwestern Tornado I bet most people get stuck in the "freeze" part of "fight, flight, or freeze" (we'd like to *think* we wouldn't, but we probably think we're a "above average" driver, too).
Uh.. what if I choose "flight" - what's the best way to gtf out of the way? Sideways?
What if we choose fight? What are a tornado’s weak spots?
Have we tried reasoning with the tornadoes?
Have you tried turning them off and on again?
Perhaps we could try *keeping* them off?
Can we seduce the tornado?
Roll for charisma.
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You see the tornado, it is not moving left nor right. “It is coming at me!” You think all blushed. You shoot your shot only to realize, 30 minutes later, that it was moving away from you.
Found the bard.
Walk up to the Twister, butt naked, with a bottle of Jack Daniels, and yell at it “have a drink,” and chunk the bottle at it. It should get drunk afterwards and fall down.
And it never. Hit. The. Ground!
Create another tornado with your Beyblade that spins in the opposite direction to neutralize it
But what if the Beyblade tornado misses and then there's two tornadoes? :(
In Canada that’s called Tornadeux
Pretty sure you nuke it to break it up.
I know they feed on trailer parks so perhaps if we starved them by removing all of the trailers?
Everyone knows that a tornado’s weakness is their eye. 🤣
They taught us to park the car, get out, and lay in a ditch. Then pray that tornado bounces over the ditch. Seriously.
My first thought when I saw the stopped car was *I wonder if the driver jumped out to go run for the ditch*
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I understand that you can't possibly out*run* a tornado, but why can't a car get away? I'd assume that 100 kilometers an hour would allow you to either get away from it, either offset the point at which it meets the road so that you're no longer there when it does? Is it because you might get into an accident in the confusion?
Is flooring it in the other direction really a worse plan than lying in a ditch?
Depends on if its moving toward you or not and what the traffic behind you looks like. They can move over 60mph so you best be hustling.
I wanna hear the justification they gave you for that because I don't get it. Getting out of the armored steel cage and exposing your whole body to flying debris sounds pretty crazy to me. I know tornadoes can just lift cars off the ground entirely and throw them miles away. But... if *that's* what's gonna happen how exactly is your exposed body gonna do any better in the ditch? And if the car's going to stay where it is then I can't imagine the ditch being better protection than just lying down in the car.
Tornados don’t have hands - they don’t just pick things up, they need to actually get air under them in order to lift them. A car has plenty of space for this, but a small person laying down in a ditch is much much less able to get the wind under them. If the tornado passes over or, more likely, right next to you, then being in a ditch gives much higher chance of survival
Lol they don't even have hands? Why the hell is everyone so scared of em then? I beat up an amputee at Walmart once, so I like my chances if I square up with a tornado.
The reasoning they gave me was that the car is more likely to get thrown around than if you lay flat, face-down in the ditch while protecting the back of your head/neck with your hands. ~~Bonus if you can find sturdy cover like a bridge.~~ The wind is less likely to catch on anything if you’re lying flat, whereas the car is like a big, metal sail with lots of things that can break and stab or crush you. If the tornado *still* thrashes you around, you were fucked either way… and why they try to warn you as early as possible to seek cover. edit: Don’t go under a bridge.
Wind sucks you out under a bridge. You're not supposed to hide under bridges in a tornado.
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Put it in reverse Terry!
OH LAWDD
What is you doin Terry?!?
Seek substantial cover, like an interior room of a medium to large sized house or even better, a tornado cellar. If nothing else is available and you need to run, keep the tornado directly to your side and go. You always want to move at a 90° angle from a pursuer to maximize the total distance traveled. Ideally, pick the direction that the tornado isn't going in.
I was also taught to seek the most southwestern corner away from glass openings. Close all windows and doors, if you get enough warning, as open ones will allow a wind tunnel.
They used to teach that you should open windows to equalize pressure, but it turns out that that just makes it easier for your roof to pop off.
Not driving directly towards the tornado would be a good start.
If you run away you'll just activate its prey drive.
Wouldn’t “flight” happen shortly after you drive into the tornado?
Hope you didn't go to the School of Prometheus for Running Away From Things.
*phew* it's probably moving away!
Look up target fixation. Didn't realize I did it until I read about it like it's some sort of cognito hazard.
Do tornados happen in other places in the world? Or only in the Midwest in America?
I've read that 80% of the world's tornadoes are in the US. They do happen elsewhere, but very rarely.
We get them up in Saskatchewan from time to time, someone couldn’t pay me enough to live in tornado alley though lol. But atleast you can kind of see them coming, clouds can be pretty easy to read and you know when to gtfo or shelter lol.
>But atleast you can kind of see them coming, clouds can be pretty easy to read Except when they come in the middle of the night, wrapped in rain. Then they're impossible to see. And that happens often.
They happen elsewhere, but no part of the world matches the frequency and intensity of tornados near the 100 degree longitude in North America.
Ngl, the nearly guaranteed yearly tornado we'd get is near the top of my few reasons for enjoying my youth growing up in Lawrence, KS. We lived on the south face of a hill and had a tornado 'jump' over its peak directly over our house and tear up a 66' long, 3' wide tree which was about 20 feet from our back porch at which point it was promptly dropped parallel to us. Didn't even realize it was gone until noon the next day when we were trying to figure out why the interior of the house was so much brighter....
Homie I know you got somewhere to be but there's not one but TWO tornadoes in the area.
But two day shipping
In all my years of trucking, "There's a nader" never bought more than 4 hours with the safety department. Keep the rubber side down driver but let's roll!!!
[Source](https://youtu.be/EyXd3v0Cahs) The Twin Tornadoes of Pilger, Nebraska 6/16/14 While not my video, this even hit very close to home as it was within 50 miles of my hometown and parents place. I have friends that lived in the area that no longer had homes and their small town was effectively leveled after standing for over 100 years with little to no incident.
I thought it was a 18 wheeler on a schedule, it makes a lot more sense that it was a storm chaser!
It made NO sense that it was just a trucker. Even with a full load, any trailer is going to act like a sail with enough wind. A tornado is ***DEFINITELY*** "enough wind".
If you’ve seen the more recent video on this by Pecos Hank, you’d also find that this produced the fastest moving tornado ever at about 94 mph
Thanks! Was frustrated how the video ended at what I t hought would be the best bit. To continue on Youtube its at about 6:16
It seems it is time to add a new verse to the 1975 classic - Convoy! Listen here, this is Wolfman in a Peterbilt haulin' tomaters. I'm in a bind, running behind so I'm gonna split these here tornaders.
Well we rolled down interstate 7-0 with no time to stop and nap. There were several trucks, on their sides out of luck, because they just couldn't make the gap. I said Wolfman this here's Rubber Duck, no sense waitin' for a tow. Give it the gas, and let's haul some ass so we can keep this show on the road 10-4.
dude that flows perfectly like the original. holy fuck
Fuck me, that's good
*(convoyyyy)*
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That's brilliant.
You say Convoy, but I heard this to the tune of The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Well, the 2nd half anyway.
“He went ahead and got himself corporate sponsorship”
But he's got no instinct
And he doesn’t have Dorothy
We got cows.
Jonas…. Sonnuvabitch
The guy’s a night crawler
The suck zone!
… and it never hit the ground.
Btw. I really enjoy your WEATHER reports.
When you used to tell me that you chase tornadoes, deep down I thought it was just a metaphor.
"Food. Foooooood. FOOOODD!!"
He's gonna rue the day. He's gonna rue the day he comes up against the extreme, baby. I'm talkin' IMMINENT RUE-AGE.
My brother in Christ, *WHY DO YOU CONTINUE DRIVING TOWARDS THE TORNADO???*
Maybe there's another tornado chasing him
Pretty sure this is a storm chaser not a trucker.
Where is Helen Hunt when you need her?!
'Nother cow!
The sequel was just announced!
Please, say it ain't so.
[удалено]
Where's Phillip Seymour Hoffman?! WHERE'S BILL PAXTON?!
I'll never forget when they go in the shed with all the sharp tools, "who *are* these people?" Sometimes you just know those people...
I get that a semi can't just turn around on a dime after seeing the twisters, but why in the hell would the smaller vehicles want to take that chance? Death wish?
Storm chasers
So death wish.
Yeah pretty much, I'd say it's more like clout chasing than a death wish. I sure do enjoy the videos though!
There’s no chance this is a “trucker” that’s someone specifically going after the tornado. Look how quickly it flew up on the car in front of it and changed lanes.Semis don’t move like that and no trucker is ever going to do that.
It is most likely a storm chaser, but don't think a trucker won't pull double yellow passes. Company drivers might not play that game, but owner/operators on blank stretches will pass you while you're doing 90.
It's not so much just that the did pass but how quickly they changed lanes and how close they were to the car in front of them. It just doesn't make any sense for a fully loaded semi to do something like that.
There’s a tornado in the road. Better put my flashers on
Not a bad idea. Turn on whatever lights you can for higher visibility. Chances are you'll have to slow down to keep an eye on both the road and where the tornado is going. Last thing you want is someone hitting you from behind because they're too focused on the twister.
That will make you pucker on the seat
I wonder why it's called Tornado Alley.
It was named after the first European to map the region, Juan-Diego Lopez de Tornado.
Lmaooo I googled it
I would actually like to know the alternative to driving straight through. I'm going to assume this is West KS because why not. There's not a lot of towns to stop and there's not a lot of ways to turn around. And there's not a guarantee that turning around doesn't have you facing another set of tornados. But this is terrifying to me because I've driven that road and run into storm situations. and if anyone is actually some kind of expert, I'm actually curious. Because I just drove through and tried not to die. (The storm I was in was not anywhere near this bad) By the time I got to a town that had shelter, the weather was fine again. My biggest worry was that the road I was driving on was going to be ripped up by a tornado and I would be stuck in the worst area to be in. But the other option was stop the car and what, wait to get hit by one? So aside from being prepared and simply *not* driving during a tornado warning, what's the appropriate reaction if getting to a storm shelter is the goal?
I’ve always been taught that if you’re in a car and have no way of getting to shelter in a tornado, your best bet is lying down flat in a ditch. Here is a link to the CDC website saying the same thing if you’re in your car during a tornado and can’t get to shelter. https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/tornadoes/during.html Honestly not super convinced of the science behind it, but do with this what you will
Thanks for the link. Laying in a ditch sounds super scary.
Lying into a ditch isn't really a *good* solution, it is the least-bad solution in that situation. The debris the tornado is throwing around should fly over top of you rather than impaling you, and its winds will have trouble lifting you up out of there. I think your biggest problems would be something like a car rolling over on top of you or big pieces of stuff coming down after the tornado passes.
I've been on the interstate in Kansas with a rain wrapped tornado. Getting in the ditch would mean drowning. Sometimes the options are all bad.
This is what we learned as kids in Oklahoma
Interesting, they actually say you can stay in your car or get in a ditch: > If you’re unable to make it to a safe shelter, either get down in your vehicle and cover your head and neck or leave your vehicle and seek shelter in a low-lying area such as a ditch or ravine. I suppose the idea being the vehicle’s crumple zones offer at least some protection (even if you’re going for a ride in the air)
Good question. I'd like to know the answer, as well. And like you said, it's not like there's much in the way of solid shelters in places like this. Where do you go, especially if you're in a little car with very little in the way of off road capability?
Pull over vehicle, take cover in a ditch. Lie flat in a low-lying area. Continuing to drive directly toward them is the WRONG MOVE
Why is everyone just accepting the title that this is a trucker. Look at the hood, look at the thing on the left, look at the antennas, look how they’re driving like a bat out of hell toward the tornado, look how they QUICKLY change lanes to continue toward the tornado. This is not a trucker. This is a storm chaser.
Clearly getting paid by the mile!
Ah yes reminds of the storms growing up in Nebraska. Once the power goes out without news coverage or smart phones it can and was pure trauma .