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Old 06-02-2013, 01:25 PM
 
Location: Atlanta (Finally on 4-1-17)
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Three storm chasers killed in Oklahoma

By Jake Carpenter and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN


(CNN) -- A group of men who devoted their lives to hunting powerful storms died in the middle of the chase.


Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras, and Carl Young were killed while following a tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma, relatives told CNN on Sunday. They were among nine people killed in storms that struck Oklahoma on Friday night.

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As terrible as this may sound, I have no sympathy for people that chase storms. You can't play with mother nature. Play with fire and you'll eventually get burned.


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Old 06-02-2013, 02:55 PM
 
Location: Paradise
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Atleast they died while doing what they love. It's consoling
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Old 06-02-2013, 10:57 PM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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Their truck:

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Old 06-03-2013, 12:39 AM
 
Location: Plano, TX
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[quote=Rocco Barbosa;29839320]Three storm chasers killed in Oklahoma

By Jake Carpenter and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN


(CNN) -- A group of men who devoted their lives to hunting powerful storms died in the middle of the chase.


Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras, and Carl Young were killed while following a tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma, relatives told CNN on Sunday. They were among nine people killed in storms that struck Oklahoma on Friday night.

Read more here.



As terrible as this may sound, I have no sympathy for people that chase storms. You can't play with mother nature. Play with fire and you'll eventually get burned.

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Soo Sad. You know what, Barbosa, you are nothing but a heartless POS. I am glad that you doesn't represent what the majority of people on here think.

Thank god that even more storm chasers like the Weather Channels Tornado Hunt team (with Mike Bettes) and Reed Timmers team didn't suffer the same fate.

Storm chasers are out there to help get people more and more advanced warnings and save lives in the process, so f*** all of you storm chaser haters.

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Old 06-03-2013, 02:06 AM
 
Location: Y-Town Area
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These men were not just storm chasers, they were scientists trying to study tornadoes and lightning.
If you actually stop and read the article you would know that.

We don't really have many tornadoes in California. I was wondering for those of you who live around them, why aren't homes being built partially under ground with say a slope on one side. It seems like it would be so much safer. I've heard even building round homes without corners would be much more safe, also.
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Old 06-03-2013, 02:29 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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I was wondering for those of you who live around them, why aren't homes being built partially under ground with say a slope on one side. It seems like it would be so much safer.
In many parts of the country it's impractical or prohibitively expensive.

In places that are flat, you can't build a walk out basement because there are no hills. In places that have bedrock near the surface it would mean thousands extra to blast through bedrock. And many basements are prone to flooding.

Not all parts of the county are like California.
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Old 06-03-2013, 03:24 AM
 
Location: Cushing OK
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In many parts of the country it's impractical or prohibitively expensive.

In places that are flat, you can't build a walk out basement because there are no hills. In places that have bedrock near the surface it would mean thousands extra to blast through bedrock. And many basements are prone to flooding.

Not all parts of the county are like California.
I was born and raised and lived for most of my life in California. People there don't have basements because it makes houses vulnerable in quakes and since slab construction is the common form. A lot of places they'd be swimming holes too, if your close to the ocean.

Where I live now I'm down hill from a small creek. The spillway for runoff is full and running full. The ground is soaked. My house was built in 1930 on a raised foundation due to wet soil. Were I to have a basement, it would be full of water. Just like when I lived at the beach. There were some homes built then with 'conversation pits' below the floor level. This batch was built during a really dry time, and when it ceased to be dry they noticed mold growing in their pits. The company who built them didn't take that into consideration and had to do full repairs. And removed the conversation pits.

I don't see why it should be assumed that just because basements don't work out where you live, that it shouldn't be a problem somewhere else. Soggy basements know no exclusive region or limit. Why should anyone assume so?
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Old 06-03-2013, 03:50 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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I only mentioned CA because I saw he was from there. I think you and I agree on the basement issue.

I'm kinda tired of multiple threads and news stories that are all the same: "OMG U GUISE DON'T HAVE BASEMENTS WTF?!?!?!" It's like some people never stopped to consider that basements might be impractical for some parts of the country.
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Old 06-03-2013, 06:41 AM
 
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These men were not just storm chasers, they were scientists trying to study tornadoes and lightning.
If you actually stop and read the article you would know that.

We don't really have many tornadoes in California. I was wondering for those of you who live around them, why aren't homes being built partially under ground with say a slope on one side. It seems like it would be so much safer. I've heard even building round homes without corners would be much more safe, also.
Some 35 years ago I had a geodesic dome greenhouse. I would get in the thing during severe storms. I don't really know if it was safer than my house, but that thing didn't shake or flutter. That was in Kansas where storms are very severe. I never sat out a tornado in it, though.
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Old 06-05-2013, 09:18 PM
 
Location: Plano, TX
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Oh, to the cowardly person who gave me a reputation point and then promptly left a comment with it calling me an a-hole for calling out the OP for being extremely insensitive to those recently fallen storm chasers, keep your trap closed.

Yeah, the OP is entitled to his opinion, as everyone is. However, in this particular case, I had a right to call him out and the ridiculous "live and let live" philosophy takes a back seat in this instance as well. So I sounded like an a** defending storm chasers and what they do; oh well, get over it.
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