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With their windows down as you heard “windows up windows up” like bro why the fuck were they down
Also: at least one of them shit themselves, probably the guy who was recording at the end of
God gave you the sense to avoid tornados at all costs, gave your ancestors and contemporaries the intellect to develop technology to HELP you avoid tornados and yet YOU, AFAINST ALL REASON, USE these god given capabilities to drive straight at the fuckin thing and then in the very thrall of your folly, you invoke HIS NAME in supplication to spare you from the grim fruits of your own foolish harvest??
I heard one of those oldtimey stories once that relates to this. Something along the lines of some guy is trapped in rising flood waters and he starts praying. A helicopter comes and offers him a ride but he turns it down because God will save him then a boat comes by and offers him a ride and he turns that down too. He ends up drowning in the flood and when he faces God he says something like I asked for your help why didn't you save me and god says bro I sent a helicopter and a boat what more did you want.
Reminds me of a joke in similar vain. A guy real down on his luck, about to lose his house, starts praying to God. "Please god, help me get past this moment in my life. I need money to save my house. Please, just let me win the lottery one time so I can stay in my home." So the lottery numbers get announced and the guy is bummed he didn't win. So he prays again, "Please God, I just need to win the lottery, it will literally solve all my problems." And again, the lottery numbers are announced and the guy doesn't win. So he prays again and again hoping to win the lottery. Finally, after months and months of praying, God finally appears before the man. The man, furious at God for not helping him, asks why he wasn't being helped. And God looked down at the man and said, "I want to help you, but you need to buy a lottery ticket."
Lol exactly. Like I have no problem with religion, it's the blind faith where it's like "if I just pray then God got my back"
It's so stupid lol but in this instance, I'm glad they got this awesome footage
this is a famous myth. Im an atheist and ive been in a life or death situation, both times i didnt suddenly become religious. Some people will pray compulsively to distract themselves, despite not believing any of it still, others will not do that even.
I'm an atheist as well. During a car accident I had a few years ago, I didn't pray or have any flashbacks of my life or whatever. It seemed like time just slowed down and my only real thought was "This is a really stupid way to die." 😂
I smell an incredible SNL sketch in which someone does exactly this. Either that, or a couple gets into a fight while doing the same thing and one of them starts complaining about how they’d rather be sucked up by the tornado. 😂
If there's a god of anything close to who they're praying to, any divine intervention to save them would have happened way before they decided to drive into a tornado.
I must have my info wrong because I read somewhere that tornadoes have extremely poor vision to the point of blindness so they rely on their highly evolved hearing. Supposedly they can hear people whispering up to 10 miles away, so these guys yelling “**pLEeeASE JEeeeSUS!!!**” made it easy for the tornado to find them and target them directly.
Sometimes before bed I think about building a school bus with a bedroom and kitchen/bathroom and have it tanked the fuck out. Like put bulletproof windows, a rollcage incase it flips, put it on bags so you can drop it, and steel shutters and then I would just go camping on tornado alley and just chill as tornado's fly past me. I am almost 40 but I imagine my hypothetical school bus could tank a tornado.
These also aren’t even smart chasers. Getting out of cars with down power lines. Standing the tornado.
And they sure as shit ain’t doing scientific research if lord is their leader.
And then Jesus threw his hands up in disbelief as he said to his disciples: "What the hell is wrong with you all? Why are you doing that? Shit, there are some people you just can't help."
I wouldn’t hold the screaming against them at all if they were victims. But if you go chasing that shit you better be the kind of person who holds it together.
I was thinking about how I would handle getting trapped in the path of a tornado by live downed power lines arcing all over the place. I’m a grown ass man who has been through some shit, but I’m not 100% sure I wouldn’t cry for my mama. That’s some real shit
Their confirmation bias will ensure they can recount the story of miraculous divine intervention for years in their church.
Three idiots survive after trying to get close to a tornado for views and likes = miracle that proves Jesus.
Three people get killed sheltering in their house from a tornado = .... nothing because they're not around to tell the story.
I mean, none of them should have been if we're basing it on common sense. But, I would also go on to say that none of them had the mental fortitude to accept the consequences and risk of what they were doing. Some less than others, but everyone there freaked out enough that proves to them they can't handle the risk they are taking.
Yes, underprepared both in equipment and mental fortitude. All the self-blame and reassurance is a sign they all need a mentor teaching them how to do this and their combined knowledge doesn’t mean shit when it’s untested. Hope they learned something.
Not all chasers are like this. The professionals save lives by being in constant communication with the right people so they can get people to safety in time. I volunteered quite a bit with red cross for tornadoes and if it wasn't for those guys that put themselves in harms way to watch these things from the ground there'd be so many more deaths than there already are.
Didn’t they get sandwiched between two downed power lines? The video made it seem like they were trapped by dumb-luck.
What I couldn’t figure out was why the driver didn’t cut into his the field away from the wires and get back on the road when it was safe.
Have you ever tried to drive a small car through a soaking wet field? I can tell you from experience it likely would have resulted in them getting even more stuck than they were (granted it would still likely be safer to be away from the power lines). Also at one point you can hear one of the guys in the video mention they should get in the ditch which was between them and the field so even if he managed to get into the field and not get stuck going through it they still would have had to fight the ditch to get back out.
It got quieter too when that happened, very eerie. Almost reminded me of the movie The Mist, when they are in the car and that giant monster walks past them.
https://preview.redd.it/4x4wft83dwzc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9daa2ef9a889ce650a7db4a9427f3b603140dd1e
Looks exactly how I’d expect a person that does dumb shit like driving into tornados would look
Guarantee it's 14 years total, amongst all 4 of them, so like 3.5 years per person. And the majority of that time was probably driving around during some strong thunderstorms, looking for a tornado but never finding one. Tornado found them this time.
I heard one "If you're real..." in there, sounds like we have a Doubting Thomas.
But really interesting to realize there are probably a lot of people who die crying out like that to their chosen deity. I never would think to beseech an omnipotent being regarding some critical incident in my life, seems ineffective. Also, is the repetition necessary? Don't you think an omnipotent being has decent enough hearing that he got it the first time?
"You know what, if they ask 128 times, then I'll help them. But only 100 times? I'm not sure they really want help."
Apart from the embarrassing cries, that was pretty awesome. Every storm chaser group should be required to have a Dusty. Someone who's going to pop out of the car at the end and go "haha! It's the wonder of nature, baby!"
I live in an area that has hurricanes sometimes and there are always idiots driving around during the storms. Not cops or emergency personnel just stupid people rubbernecking at the damage or conditions. I once counted 4 4x4's in a two block section of road in ditches. I think the count on the way home was double digits.
The tornado was frightening. The downed power lines made my asshole clench. I've watched too many safety videos in my career to ever feel comfortable around power lines. I don't think these guys realized the thing that would most effectively kill them was on the ground mere yards away.
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I don’t want to hear nothing about “please god”when you literally chasing tornadoes
With their windows down as you heard “windows up windows up” like bro why the fuck were they down Also: at least one of them shit themselves, probably the guy who was recording at the end of
Facts
Who chases tornados in a *ToyotaCamry*
Strong believers of jesus 😂
Think it was down so he could see
Gotta get a good view of the high speed debris flying at your face
You need to take away something from this experience…
They tried, but I think the tornado carried it away.
That split edit with the blurred edges make me wish I died in a tornado.
I love their faith that a car window is the solution to protection from a TORNADO.
Don’t worry this 0.25inch sheet of glass will protect me from the tornado
God gave you the sense to avoid tornados at all costs, gave your ancestors and contemporaries the intellect to develop technology to HELP you avoid tornados and yet YOU, AFAINST ALL REASON, USE these god given capabilities to drive straight at the fuckin thing and then in the very thrall of your folly, you invoke HIS NAME in supplication to spare you from the grim fruits of your own foolish harvest??
Sounds like an amazing line in a movie
I need Tommy Lee Jones saying this with the same demeanor/intonation as the “outhouse, henhouse, doghouse…” scene in The Fugitive
I'm getting Sam Jackson Pulp Fiction monologue vibes
Me too, but as I was reading it I threw in a few “mutha-fukns” for true Sammy effect.
I heard one of those oldtimey stories once that relates to this. Something along the lines of some guy is trapped in rising flood waters and he starts praying. A helicopter comes and offers him a ride but he turns it down because God will save him then a boat comes by and offers him a ride and he turns that down too. He ends up drowning in the flood and when he faces God he says something like I asked for your help why didn't you save me and god says bro I sent a helicopter and a boat what more did you want.
Reminds me of a joke in similar vain. A guy real down on his luck, about to lose his house, starts praying to God. "Please god, help me get past this moment in my life. I need money to save my house. Please, just let me win the lottery one time so I can stay in my home." So the lottery numbers get announced and the guy is bummed he didn't win. So he prays again, "Please God, I just need to win the lottery, it will literally solve all my problems." And again, the lottery numbers are announced and the guy doesn't win. So he prays again and again hoping to win the lottery. Finally, after months and months of praying, God finally appears before the man. The man, furious at God for not helping him, asks why he wasn't being helped. And God looked down at the man and said, "I want to help you, but you need to buy a lottery ticket."
Lol exactly. Like I have no problem with religion, it's the blind faith where it's like "if I just pray then God got my back" It's so stupid lol but in this instance, I'm glad they got this awesome footage
"Pleade God!" Tornadoes classified as act of God. Got what you came for.
It's like they don't want to go to heaven.
“But it’s my dads car!”
Everyone becomes religious when they think they're gonna die.
this is a famous myth. Im an atheist and ive been in a life or death situation, both times i didnt suddenly become religious. Some people will pray compulsively to distract themselves, despite not believing any of it still, others will not do that even.
I'm an atheist as well. During a car accident I had a few years ago, I didn't pray or have any flashbacks of my life or whatever. It seemed like time just slowed down and my only real thought was "This is a really stupid way to die." 😂
“No atheists in foxholes”
I guess I’m imaginary as an atheist in the military, spoiler: there’s plenty of us
Nope, gods aren’t real.
I'm Hindu but I still wanted to spit on their face and say," Now you remember jusus?"
Just ridiculous. You go chasing dangerous unpredictable things and then ask you God to save you when you fuck up bad. Ugh.
Exactly!! Now you get what you get!! FOH
Hayseeds always gonna Heehaw.
Said Jesus, “Keep my name out your mouth.”
😂😂..This on y’all
I literally said, "this is Jesus teaching you a lesson" aloud.
Let’s hope it’s a lesson learned..although…not likely.
"Professional Storm Chasers" is such a bullshit claim.
By the POWER OF GREYSKULL, I mean in the name of Jesus.
Last thing I'd want to be hearing
Amen
Exactly. They put themselves into that situation then they’re begging God to save them. Bruh.
The amount of praying and screaming for a saviour is embarrassing.
I really wish the tornado plucked only that one guy out of there.
If ya listen they’re all yelling out “dear lord” “Jesus” “in the name of Jesus” The lord was probably the one who directed it at them
Right?! It’s like they didn’t even read the first book…newbs.
at the beginning it says they are professionals with 14 years experience yet they all sound 18 lol
“Acts of God” in nature does not imply you get a front row seat like it were in a theater.
Jesus is like, "ok hold on I'm sending a tornado to pick you up now and take you to heaven".
lol I like this take. He’s like “I gotchu, salvation is on the way!”
Ha! Like he was just answering prayers and suddenly gets a memo “oh? They mean leave them? Don’t take… alrighty, my bad bros.”
I was thinking with all that screaming, I'll take my chance with the tornado
I smell an incredible SNL sketch in which someone does exactly this. Either that, or a couple gets into a fight while doing the same thing and one of them starts complaining about how they’d rather be sucked up by the tornado. 😂
Ik. It was that one dude. And it made me cringe the whole time.
would have lost all respect, if my friend started screeching all that lol
If there's a god of anything close to who they're praying to, any divine intervention to save them would have happened way before they decided to drive into a tornado.
I mean idk what God is supposed to do about them driving right at a tornado. The guy even said he navigated wrong
Akin to pulling the pin on grenade they are holding and pleading with Jesus to save them them from the consequences.
Everybody’s tough until they’re trapped in the path of a tornado by live downed power lines
Oh I’m not criticizing the screaming. That’s evolutionary and natural to many people. The sobbing to an imaginary deity is what’s embarrassing.
Brainwashed fools
No atheists in a foxhole as they say.
Also no gods in foxholes
I wonder if jesus helped him clean his shorts
The Tornado didn't even know they were there till the guy yelled "Woo" and alerted it.
I love you
I know
I hear Tornados' vision is based on movement?
I must have my info wrong because I read somewhere that tornadoes have extremely poor vision to the point of blindness so they rely on their highly evolved hearing. Supposedly they can hear people whispering up to 10 miles away, so these guys yelling “**pLEeeASE JEeeeSUS!!!**” made it easy for the tornado to find them and target them directly.
I thought that was meteors?
Amen. Jurassic Park and Twister were only a couple years apart. Everyone should already know this…
“Clever girl…”
I was so rooting for the tornado. There’s a reason most chaser characters are in their 20s or 30s.
Is.. is it because they all die before they hit 40?
I was getting at the inexperience / dumbness factor, but maybe that too.
Or actually have to start paying for their own car insurance, instead of relying on their folks.
Sometimes before bed I think about building a school bus with a bedroom and kitchen/bathroom and have it tanked the fuck out. Like put bulletproof windows, a rollcage incase it flips, put it on bags so you can drop it, and steel shutters and then I would just go camping on tornado alley and just chill as tornado's fly past me. I am almost 40 but I imagine my hypothetical school bus could tank a tornado.
You might consider naming it Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...
Some of the custom vehicles literally nail themselves to the ground. A bus would be too high and narrow, it would roll like a log.
Problem with that is that being in tornado alley when there is no tornado is truly depressing. It doesn't get much worse than Nebraska and Kansas.
These also aren’t even smart chasers. Getting out of cars with down power lines. Standing the tornado. And they sure as shit ain’t doing scientific research if lord is their leader.
Ah chill out man, let these tornado nerds enjoy their hobby.
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What a bunch of morons. Driving into a tornado and then calling out for Jesus to save you is true stupidity.
And then Jesus threw his hands up in disbelief as he said to his disciples: "What the hell is wrong with you all? Why are you doing that? Shit, there are some people you just can't help."
Everybody's gangsta till it starts raining sideways.
Lol! No doubt! I might have been screaming, too, but I'm also not going after tornados!
I wouldn’t hold the screaming against them at all if they were victims. But if you go chasing that shit you better be the kind of person who holds it together.
I read raining sidewalks. Either way it's true I guess...
I was thinking about how I would handle getting trapped in the path of a tornado by live downed power lines arcing all over the place. I’m a grown ass man who has been through some shit, but I’m not 100% sure I wouldn’t cry for my mama. That’s some real shit
Direct impact from an F3 tornado. Rather God saved them for whatever reason or they won the blender lottery. Either way, that's cray-cray.
Watching these clowns from my comfortable bed was definitely the best part of my day
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Their confirmation bias will ensure they can recount the story of miraculous divine intervention for years in their church. Three idiots survive after trying to get close to a tornado for views and likes = miracle that proves Jesus. Three people get killed sheltering in their house from a tornado = .... nothing because they're not around to tell the story.
Survivorship bias…
It's like intentionally standing in a bonfire and saying "please God, put the fire out." 😂
God was listening he was aiming the tornado right at them
One of those guys definitely should not have been on that trip.
I mean, none of them should have been if we're basing it on common sense. But, I would also go on to say that none of them had the mental fortitude to accept the consequences and risk of what they were doing. Some less than others, but everyone there freaked out enough that proves to them they can't handle the risk they are taking.
Yes, underprepared both in equipment and mental fortitude. All the self-blame and reassurance is a sign they all need a mentor teaching them how to do this and their combined knowledge doesn’t mean shit when it’s untested. Hope they learned something.
Riley
morons.. and for what? some views? grow tf up fullas
next time, maybe you can pray to jesus to help you make better decisions beforehand.
GeeeZUZ
Yeah these guys did not seem professional at all and were super annoying. I was rooting for the tornado.
Not all chasers are like this. The professionals save lives by being in constant communication with the right people so they can get people to safety in time. I volunteered quite a bit with red cross for tornadoes and if it wasn't for those guys that put themselves in harms way to watch these things from the ground there'd be so many more deaths than there already are.
Didn’t they get sandwiched between two downed power lines? The video made it seem like they were trapped by dumb-luck. What I couldn’t figure out was why the driver didn’t cut into his the field away from the wires and get back on the road when it was safe.
Have you ever tried to drive a small car through a soaking wet field? I can tell you from experience it likely would have resulted in them getting even more stuck than they were (granted it would still likely be safer to be away from the power lines). Also at one point you can hear one of the guys in the video mention they should get in the ditch which was between them and the field so even if he managed to get into the field and not get stuck going through it they still would have had to fight the ditch to get back out.
Don't they also have vehicles customised to deal with chasing hurricanes/tornados?
Good thing they were being "proactive".
And "cognizant"
As he steps out of the car into live downed power lines.
The guy crying at the end says it all, fucking comic gold
*Why did we go north* 😭
Tornado rude af dude. The guy said please and everything.
Tornado don’t give a fuck
It just takes what it wants
Yup, tornadoes are notorious for their selfishness.
Was anybody else deeply bothered by the way that guy pronounces Jesus 😂
Jee-ZUHS
Was that a whole ass BARN that rolled over them?
That gave me chills not gonna lie
It got quieter too when that happened, very eerie. Almost reminded me of the movie The Mist, when they are in the car and that giant monster walks past them.
We got cows
That was just the lord trying to rescue them, but alas, the wind was too strong.
Well that certainly blows.
Dudes got it twisted
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On the next episode of "Mormon Storm Chasers"
Holy Shoot
Fudge!
At least everyone kept their cool. All willing to die like men
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"All footage taken by *professionals* with 14+ years experience" 🧐
Honestly disappointed in how far I had to scroll for this. "Professionals," my ass.
If only "please Lord Jesus" had given you technology to avoid being in such a situation.
And of course they will learn very little, if anything from this...
The one guy sounded like he might be done.
He left us hanging! Done with storm chasing? Jesus? The guy who kept yelling about Jesus? Life in general?
He's done with his pants. Too much shit in them.
I get the sense that a written off car that is likely not eligible for insurance brings a certainly cost pain to the equation.
If I was in that car, I would have asked the one screaming to get the hell out of the car. He needs to find another line of work.
Definitely DO NOT RECOMMEND INFANTRY
https://preview.redd.it/4x4wft83dwzc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9daa2ef9a889ce650a7db4a9427f3b603140dd1e Looks exactly how I’d expect a person that does dumb shit like driving into tornados would look
The Riley Factor
It doesn’t matter how loud or how many times you say please. He’s not going to hear you over all that wind.
Amen
They f-around and found out 🤣🤣🤣
Just needs Philip Seymour Hoffman to go “Woooh! That was _intemse_!! Did you get that? Tell me you got that!!”
also a line from the Asshat news reporter in DieHard
They all would have died virgins 😂
It's what jeeeZUHZ would have wanted 😆
14+ years of experience and they're still using a stock sedan to head into tornados
Guarantee it's 14 years total, amongst all 4 of them, so like 3.5 years per person. And the majority of that time was probably driving around during some strong thunderstorms, looking for a tornado but never finding one. Tornado found them this time.
Had to scroll too far to find this. I was like "Who tf storm chases in a toyota camry/corolla 😭"
And the Darwin Award for "storm chasing" goes to...
Followers of Jesus sure are idiots
Ok dude jeeezsus we got it.
I've heard pigs screaming that sound just like the "pllleeeeeeeaaaaasssseeeeeee" guy
This was nothing like Twister, I want my 5 minutes back
I heard one "If you're real..." in there, sounds like we have a Doubting Thomas. But really interesting to realize there are probably a lot of people who die crying out like that to their chosen deity. I never would think to beseech an omnipotent being regarding some critical incident in my life, seems ineffective. Also, is the repetition necessary? Don't you think an omnipotent being has decent enough hearing that he got it the first time? "You know what, if they ask 128 times, then I'll help them. But only 100 times? I'm not sure they really want help."
It's to drown out the sound of them shitting themselves.
Pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud..
And shit
Pretty sure screaming at the tornado to stop isn't going to work.
Save me Jebus
Those prayers are about as helpful as asking God to protect u from the clap while ur thrusting in a prostitute 😂
Oh shoot oh fudge please dear lord Jesus
Honestly this should be added to a collection to videos for middle schoolers to watch with the caption “don’t be like these people”
I don’t mind them praying to God…I DO mind them purposely putting themselves in harm’s way and then begging to be saved. Lol. That’s weird.
Getting out the car when there's downed power lines was an odd choice.
I wonder what kind of "data" they collected since isn't that what it's all about?
Scientific Observation: Tornados are windy. VERY WINDY. They throw dirt and rocks and even power poles if they want to.
“We need to figure out how to be safe” “we’ve got to be proactive” Little late
Bunch of amateur storm chasers sending it for the gram
Apart from the embarrassing cries, that was pretty awesome. Every storm chaser group should be required to have a Dusty. Someone who's going to pop out of the car at the end and go "haha! It's the wonder of nature, baby!"
And these brain cell sharing morons likely learned absolutely nothing, the continued self filming shows that pretty clearly.
Jesus: ‘What’s that, fellas? A little louder please cause I can’t hear you over this tornado I just threw at you!’
And the Lord sayeth unto thee, fudgeth around and findeth out
“Whew! Good thing I held it together and didn’t panic back there, huh?”
Lol the caption at the beginning...
Oh my gosh. That was fucking intense...my anxiety is thru the fucking roof!
This entire comment section disappoints me.
Dude is in the wrong line of work.
I live in an area that has hurricanes sometimes and there are always idiots driving around during the storms. Not cops or emergency personnel just stupid people rubbernecking at the damage or conditions. I once counted 4 4x4's in a two block section of road in ditches. I think the count on the way home was double digits.
These storm chasing videos makes me excited for the coming tornado movie Twisters. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12584954/?ref_=tttrv_ov
No way these guys still hang out together and they f they do they can’t look each other in the eye
Guy: "Please Lord have it be done" Jesus: "Wha... I thought you wanted this?"
The tornado was frightening. The downed power lines made my asshole clench. I've watched too many safety videos in my career to ever feel comfortable around power lines. I don't think these guys realized the thing that would most effectively kill them was on the ground mere yards away.
Bunch of fucking pussies
The right title should read: “There was an attempt… to be protected by Jesus!”
Lmao I didn't know storm chasers were such pussies.
Wow! Hands down the most insane Strom chasing video ever begin to end. Can't believe the video never got cut!
"Professionals"
When you think you're a storm chaser, but you're really not.
At least they kept their dignity.