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Brandon Copic got hit by a tree that came down on us during the intense RFD surge from the tornado forming nearby on 04/23/26. 🌪️🚨 I was running outside trying to grab my $180 sunglasses after they flew off, but I had to forget about them fast because that...

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I’ll add some context to my earlier tweet because I’m still mentally recovering from everything that happened. We were southwest of Kankakee, Illinois and we turned north to go down a dirt road with a bunch of chasers, and once we turned down that road everyone started turning around. I assumed everyone was turning around because of the wall cloud/tornado crossing it, well I was wrong. I couple people turned around and very large hail started hitting the road, so we use a persons driveway to turn around and once we got turned around, a big chunk of hail hit my passenger window (because I’m not the driver), presumably baseball sized hail or larger and nearly shattered the window, but thankfully it was soft enough that it didn’t. We went back east and north on the highway to get another view of the tornado and it goes into full multi-vortex like 30 yards in front of us as hail starts hitting the vehicle, so we turn back around to find a vehicle (I don’t wanna call them out directly) was parked in the middle of the road and was blocking it. That chaser moved and we went south to find more cars on the shoulder on the left side of the road and another car stopped in the southbound lanes and they were panicking and they were blocking us from going south. Thankfully they moved and we were able to get south. Around this time, we start getting text messages that my grandparents who live in Yukon were hearing tornado sirens and we’re getting into shelter. So once we got south of the supercell and were repositioning, I was looking at this while driving and directing my mom because I was trying to figure out what was going on. We were going north on a highway and accidentally missed the road to turn right because my mom didn’t see it and I wasn’t paying attention. So she is forced to make a very sharp right turn on a road that curves, and since we chase in a 13,000 pound Chevy dually 1 ton, we can’t exactly turn on a dime. She tries to turn once and can’t make it so she backs up, she then goes forward again thinking she can make it and she can’t, so she has to back up again. In the midst of this, 3 chasers including Connor Croff were behind us and we were getting honked at. I got told that over stream Connor was bad mouthing us, got mad at us, and said that we almost caused a 3 car pile up simply because we stopped at a stop sign, cleared it, then tried to make a sharp right turn but couldn’t make it all the way, and this made me and my mom very mad once we learned this because we didn’t almost cause a 3 car pile up. If we almost did, they shouldn’t have been driving that close to us and should’ve been giving us space. After this, we continued east and eventually ended up ahead of the supercell as it was producing a wedge tornado. We began driving north towards it and my mom told me there was a semi truck coming up beside us and I asked her to turn our CB Radio on and see if I could get into contact with that driver and get him to stop. In the act of doing all of this, I lost complete situational awareness and ended up putting us in a terrible position. I was able to get into contact with the driver who passed us on the left and managed to get him to stop. Once I got him to stop I looked back at radar to see that we were in the path of the tornado so we turned back south. As we were turning south the tornado was crossing the highway and winds increased significantly. Visibility was bad and we got hit by the tornado. We got hit by a satellite or a vortex on the south side of the tornado and almost blew us off of the road. By losing situational awareness, it got us into a terrible situation, and had we not been in our chase vehicle, Black Betty, that could’ve been a lot worse, but it takes a lot to move this truck, let alone roll it. We’re alright, I’m alright. The truck is alright and didn’t sustain any damage from that tornado, but I’m going to be taking a huge step back and reevaluating the way I chase. Thank god we’re alright.
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I’ll add some context to my earlier tweet because I’m still mentally recovering from everything that happened. We were southwest of Kankakee, Illinois and we turned north to go down a dirt road with a bunch of chasers, and once we turned down that road everyone started turning around. I assumed everyone was turning around because of the wall cloud/tornado crossing it, well I was wrong. I couple people turned around and very large hail started hitting the road, so we use a persons driveway to turn around and once we got turned around, a big chunk of hail hit my passenger window (because I’m not the driver), presumably baseball sized hail or larger and nearly shattered the window, but thankfully it was soft enough that it didn’t. We went back east and north on the highway to get another view of the tornado and it goes into full multi-vortex like 30 yards in front of us as hail starts hitting the vehicle, so we turn back around to find a vehicle (I don’t wanna call them out directly) was parked in the middle of the road and was blocking it. That chaser moved and we went south to find more cars on the shoulder on the left side of the road and another car stopped in the southbound lanes and they were panicking and they were blocking us from going south. Thankfully they moved and we were able to get south. Around this time, we start getting text messages that my grandparents who live in Yukon were hearing tornado sirens and we’re getting into shelter. So once we got south of the supercell and were repositioning, I was looking at this while driving and directing my mom because I was trying to figure out what was going on. We were going north on a highway and accidentally missed the road to turn right because my mom didn’t see it and I wasn’t paying attention. So she is forced to make a very sharp right turn on a road that curves, and since we chase in a 13,000 pound Chevy dually 1 ton, we can’t exactly turn on a dime. She tries to turn once and can’t make it so she backs up, she then goes forward again thinking she can make it and she can’t, so she has to back up again. In the midst of this, 3 chasers including Connor Croff were behind us and we were getting honked at. I got told that over stream Connor was bad mouthing us, got mad at us, and said that we almost caused a 3 car pile up simply because we stopped at a stop sign, cleared it, then tried to make a sharp right turn but couldn’t make it all the way, and this made me and my mom very mad once we learned this because we didn’t almost cause a 3 car pile up. If we almost did, they shouldn’t have been driving that close to us and should’ve been giving us space. After this, we continued east and eventually ended up ahead of the supercell as it was producing a wedge tornado. We began driving north towards it and my mom told me there was a semi truck coming up beside us and I asked her to turn our CB Radio on and see if I could get into contact with that driver and get him to stop. In the act of doing all of this, I lost complete situational awareness and ended up putting us in a terrible position. I was able to get into contact with the driver who passed us on the left and managed to get him to stop. Once I got him to stop I looked back at radar to see that we were in the path of the tornado so we turned back south. As we were turning south the tornado was crossing the highway and winds increased significantly. Visibility was bad and we got hit by the tornado. We got hit by a satellite or a vortex on the south side of the tornado and almost blew us off of the road. By losing situational awareness, it got us into a terrible situation, and had we not been in our chase vehicle, Black Betty, that could’ve been a lot worse, but it takes a lot to move this truck, let alone roll it. We’re alright, I’m alright. The truck is alright and didn’t sustain any damage from that tornado, but I’m going to be taking a huge step back and reevaluating the way I chase. Thank god we’re alright.

Max Archer

223,983 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

26 years ago today, the May 3, 1999 #tornado outbreak happened, including the strongest tornado in History - the Bridge Creek to Moore to OKC F5. I was a freshman meteorology student at the University of Oklahoma, and we had just finished our calculus exam when we piled in the soft top Geo Tracker, driven by Matt Sannes. We blasted down I44 to target the dry line down near Altus, but ran into a lead renegade supercell that formed off a horizontal convective roll near Lawton. The storm looked like a nuclear explosion with news choppers flying all around it. Minutes later we intercepted a white elephant trunk outside of Cyril. Two tornadoes later with this cyclic #tornado producer, the F5 planted with the Doppler on Wheels nearby scanning winds in the vortex. They would measure a 300+ mph wind gust in the tornado near peak intensity. We briefly became disoriented in a forested area near Bridge Creek, and someone (possibly me) had the bright idea to abandon the Geo Tracker to take shelter beneath the overpass. Families were already sheltering there as the F5 slid by the overpass, sending RFD through the gap. We then saw the dark side this #tornado left behind in Moore, OK with total devastation. Horses wandering on the highway and people emerging from the rubble. This was a terrible day for many Oklahomans. A total of 74 tornadoes happened during the May 3, 1999 outbreak including 46 fatalities and $1.5 billion in damage
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26 years ago today, the May 3, 1999 #tornado outbreak happened, including the strongest tornado in History - the Bridge Creek to Moore to OKC F5. I was a freshman meteorology student at the University of Oklahoma, and we had just finished our calculus exam when we piled in the soft top Geo Tracker, driven by Matt Sannes. We blasted down I44 to target the dry line down near Altus, but ran into a lead renegade supercell that formed off a horizontal convective roll near Lawton. The storm looked like a nuclear explosion with news choppers flying all around it. Minutes later we intercepted a white elephant trunk outside of Cyril. Two tornadoes later with this cyclic #tornado producer, the F5 planted with the Doppler on Wheels nearby scanning winds in the vortex. They would measure a 300+ mph wind gust in the tornado near peak intensity. We briefly became disoriented in a forested area near Bridge Creek, and someone (possibly me) had the bright idea to abandon the Geo Tracker to take shelter beneath the overpass. Families were already sheltering there as the F5 slid by the overpass, sending RFD through the gap. We then saw the dark side this #tornado left behind in Moore, OK with total devastation. Horses wandering on the highway and people emerging from the rubble. This was a terrible day for many Oklahomans. A total of 74 tornadoes happened during the May 3, 1999 outbreak including 46 fatalities and $1.5 billion in damage

Reed Timmer, PhD

240,919 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

What's a "wedge" tornado? And how rare are "megawedge" tornadoes? There is no technical definition of a "wedge." Storm chasers consider wedge tornadoes to tornadoes that appear wider than they are tall. (For the tornado's height, they use the distance from the ground to the cloud base – AKA the "lifting condensation level". True tornado circulations extend up to 30,000 or 40,000 feet into the storm, so no tornadoes are *actually* wider than they are tall. We just can only see the part of the tornado that hangs down from the cloud base.) The tornado you see below occurred in Harlan, Iowa on April 26, 2024. It's the biggest I have ever seen. It was 1.1 miles wide, and had winds estimated by mobile Doppler radar up to 224 mph! Only 1 or 2 in 1,000 tornadoes grows larger than a mile wide – at least according to National Weather Service survey data. Realistically, that number might be significantly higher when counting inflow winds and ill-defined edges of the tornadic circulation, especially in rain-wrapped environments. (Where does the "tornado" end and the wind "around" the tornado begin?) MEGAWEDGE tornadoes are informally considered anything wider than 1.5 miles in diameter. The National Weather Service has only "officially" logged 30 megawedge tornadoes out of the 84,000+ in their database. The BIGGEST tornado on record occurred in El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31, 2013. It was 2.6 miles across! That said, researchers found evidence that the Mulhall, Okla. tornado on May 3, 1999 had a peak "core circulation" about 4.3 miles wide. In other words, that's the diameter of the 96 mph or greater winds. Let's hope 2025 doesn't feature any megawedges! If there are, we'll be streaming them in the MyRadar Weather app!
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What's a "wedge" tornado? And how rare are "megawedge" tornadoes? There is no technical definition of a "wedge." Storm chasers consider wedge tornadoes to tornadoes that appear wider than they are tall. (For the tornado's height, they use the distance from the ground to the cloud base – AKA the "lifting condensation level". True tornado circulations extend up to 30,000 or 40,000 feet into the storm, so no tornadoes are *actually* wider than they are tall. We just can only see the part of the tornado that hangs down from the cloud base.) The tornado you see below occurred in Harlan, Iowa on April 26, 2024. It's the biggest I have ever seen. It was 1.1 miles wide, and had winds estimated by mobile Doppler radar up to 224 mph! Only 1 or 2 in 1,000 tornadoes grows larger than a mile wide – at least according to National Weather Service survey data. Realistically, that number might be significantly higher when counting inflow winds and ill-defined edges of the tornadic circulation, especially in rain-wrapped environments. (Where does the "tornado" end and the wind "around" the tornado begin?) MEGAWEDGE tornadoes are informally considered anything wider than 1.5 miles in diameter. The National Weather Service has only "officially" logged 30 megawedge tornadoes out of the 84,000+ in their database. The BIGGEST tornado on record occurred in El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31, 2013. It was 2.6 miles across! That said, researchers found evidence that the Mulhall, Okla. tornado on May 3, 1999 had a peak "core circulation" about 4.3 miles wide. In other words, that's the diameter of the 96 mph or greater winds. Let's hope 2025 doesn't feature any megawedges! If there are, we'll be streaming them in the MyRadar Weather app!

Matthew Cappucci

23,980 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Peyton Manning talks about the time Jim Harbaugh tried recruiting him to join the 49ers when he hit free agency in 2012: “The 49ers were one of the first teams that I worked out for. They came down to North Carolina. I was at Duke and Harbaugh and Greg Roman came down and were very CIA like. They flew into another town in North Carolina because they didn’t want to get tracked by Adam Schefter or Chris Mortensen. Harbaugh had a hoodie on — Bill Belichick style at the workout in case Mort was in a tree, but he was great. I think he knew I was going through a strange time. At the time his San Francisco teams were awesome. They were tough. I was looking for a team that was kind of close to getting there and that wasn’t a rebuild. He was great.” via: NFL on ESPN
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Peyton Manning talks about the time Jim Harbaugh tried recruiting him to join the 49ers when he hit free agency in 2012: “The 49ers were one of the first teams that I worked out for. They came down to North Carolina. I was at Duke and Harbaugh and Greg Roman came down and were very CIA like. They flew into another town in North Carolina because they didn’t want to get tracked by Adam Schefter or Chris Mortensen. Harbaugh had a hoodie on — Bill Belichick style at the workout in case Mort was in a tree, but he was great. I think he knew I was going through a strange time. At the time his San Francisco teams were awesome. They were tough. I was looking for a team that was kind of close to getting there and that wasn’t a rebuild. He was great.” via: NFL on ESPN

Coach Yac 🗣

898,270 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

“one of my daughters was pr£gnant, i didn’t know they are f!r|ng me spiritually, when she was about to give birth, she told me it was on the 17th but her mother said it was 7th, but because my daughter held the letter, my mind was at 17th. she left for work that on the 7th, i had a dream that that morning that a child wanted to come out of a bag but the zip didn’t allow it, by the time i got to the bag, the child is d£ąd. when i woke up i said i still have 10 days to go, because i have a lot of confidence in God’s name. after eating Eba i slept again and my daughter’s call woke me up that she’s about to give birth. when i got to the hospital they were running around, God told me to get pure water to drink and pour on the ground, after 5 minutes she gave birth but it was stillbirth…” - Nollywood actor, Taiwo Adeleke says.
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“one of my daughters was pr£gnant, i didn’t know they are f!r|ng me spiritually, when she was about to give birth, she told me it was on the 17th but her mother said it was 7th, but because my daughter held the letter, my mind was at 17th. she left for work that on the 7th, i had a dream that that morning that a child wanted to come out of a bag but the zip didn’t allow it, by the time i got to the bag, the child is d£ąd. when i woke up i said i still have 10 days to go, because i have a lot of confidence in God’s name. after eating Eba i slept again and my daughter’s call woke me up that she’s about to give birth. when i got to the hospital they were running around, God told me to get pure water to drink and pour on the ground, after 5 minutes she gave birth but it was stillbirth…” - Nollywood actor, Taiwo Adeleke says.

last born

193,353 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

When its time to FLEE. From Saint Libory. I was working to assume my preferred position from the north when my backroad turned into a muddy corn field access road. I was in the path of the fast moving, likely violent tornado. I stopped for about a minute to observe. No right to left no left to right. I could attempt to continue north knowing this...but it was too risky. What if the road got worse and I ended up stuck or trapped. I didn't know what was ahead and didnt have full confidence, given the look of the tornado, I bailed back south to let it cross infront of me. This is 6 minutes of video condensed into 20 seconds.
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When its time to FLEE. From Saint Libory. I was working to assume my preferred position from the north when my backroad turned into a muddy corn field access road. I was in the path of the fast moving, likely violent tornado. I stopped for about a minute to observe. No right to left no left to right. I could attempt to continue north knowing this...but it was too risky. What if the road got worse and I ended up stuck or trapped. I didn't know what was ahead and didnt have full confidence, given the look of the tornado, I bailed back south to let it cross infront of me. This is 6 minutes of video condensed into 20 seconds.

Adam Lucio 🌪️

11,131 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Back in Brecksville living with my brother in a house we both bought, we had an apple tree in the backyard that we were too busy to keep up on. I admit I was pulling long hours at the insurance company and he was gone on developers trips all the time. The fruit and the leaves would fall and sometimes land in the neighbors driveway. For the longest time they never said anything about it, they even picked our apples and ate them, I never said anything about that because to be honest I never cared. One day I was on a phone call with a client and I was walking to the backyard and saw a few half eaten apples and apple cores littering the patio area by my garage. I assumed the neighbor ate it and threw it over. As the days passed I saw more and more apples scattered all over my yard. They even but a big branch of my tree off that was beginning to go over the fence. One day while in the garage I saw firsthand they were throwing apples over the fence. I walked by the fence and saw they were trying to spray something around my tree. The tree is literally right next to the fence, it almost touched it. A few days later the leaves looked burnt and even some of the grass by the tree was dying as well. I suspected they were trying to spray some sort of plant killer to kill my tree. I then walked over to them and asked what was going on, they claimed their daughter was visiting and one of the apples fell and dented her car, and they wanted me to address my fruit falling onto their property. The weird thing about the whole thing is I never heard anything about this nor did they ever ask me to pay for the damages. My friends and I ended up getting a latter and trimming most of the branches close to the fence. I did see them reach over on occasion to steal apples but I never really had an issue with them from that point on. I also never offered to pay for the damage because I wasn’t convinced it even happened, I would think if it did I would have heard about it when it happened.
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Back in Brecksville living with my brother in a house we both bought, we had an apple tree in the backyard that we were too busy to keep up on. I admit I was pulling long hours at the insurance company and he was gone on developers trips all the time. The fruit and the leaves would fall and sometimes land in the neighbors driveway. For the longest time they never said anything about it, they even picked our apples and ate them, I never said anything about that because to be honest I never cared. One day I was on a phone call with a client and I was walking to the backyard and saw a few half eaten apples and apple cores littering the patio area by my garage. I assumed the neighbor ate it and threw it over. As the days passed I saw more and more apples scattered all over my yard. They even but a big branch of my tree off that was beginning to go over the fence. One day while in the garage I saw firsthand they were throwing apples over the fence. I walked by the fence and saw they were trying to spray something around my tree. The tree is literally right next to the fence, it almost touched it. A few days later the leaves looked burnt and even some of the grass by the tree was dying as well. I suspected they were trying to spray some sort of plant killer to kill my tree. I then walked over to them and asked what was going on, they claimed their daughter was visiting and one of the apples fell and dented her car, and they wanted me to address my fruit falling onto their property. The weird thing about the whole thing is I never heard anything about this nor did they ever ask me to pay for the damages. My friends and I ended up getting a latter and trimming most of the branches close to the fence. I did see them reach over on occasion to steal apples but I never really had an issue with them from that point on. I also never offered to pay for the damage because I wasn’t convinced it even happened, I would think if it did I would have heard about it when it happened.

SonnyBoy🇺🇸

40,219 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

On this day, 27 years ago, we chased what is well-known as the strongest #tornado in History. This shows the F5 tornado near peak intensity, just after devastating the community of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma. Aa freshman meteorology students at OU, we stupidly abandoned our Geo Tracker and took shelter under an overpass. Research was published that overpasses can accelerate the tornadic wind and be even more dangerous. We then saw the terrible devastation in Moore, Oklahoma with horses wandering down the highway and people emerging from their destroyed homes. Over 50 people lost their lives from the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak. There was another massive violent tornado with a supercell to the north near Mulhall, Oklahoma that peaked after sunset. The tornado outbreak was still going when I woke up for class the next morning at 7 am. This is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. Enjoy the nice weather this May 3,
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On this day, 27 years ago, we chased what is well-known as the strongest #tornado in History. This shows the F5 tornado near peak intensity, just after devastating the community of Bridge Creek, Oklahoma. Aa freshman meteorology students at OU, we stupidly abandoned our Geo Tracker and took shelter under an overpass. Research was published that overpasses can accelerate the tornadic wind and be even more dangerous. We then saw the terrible devastation in Moore, Oklahoma with horses wandering down the highway and people emerging from their destroyed homes. Over 50 people lost their lives from the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak. There was another massive violent tornado with a supercell to the north near Mulhall, Oklahoma that peaked after sunset. The tornado outbreak was still going when I woke up for class the next morning at 7 am. This is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. Enjoy the nice weather this May 3,

Reed Timmer, PhD

370,762 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

This family was sitting by their fire pit when the dad heard some crackling noises. He told his family they should move because of the noise and he was worried. Sure enough as they got far away from it, a gigantic tree came crumbling down right where they would have been sitting. I would be worried about the tree catching on fire since they left the fire burning in the fire pit. I’m glad the father had the wherewithal to move everyone. By the way, did you know the dad told them so? 😂 Have you ever had a huge tree fall on or near your house or other structures or maybe had a close call?
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This family was sitting by their fire pit when the dad heard some crackling noises. He told his family they should move because of the noise and he was worried. Sure enough as they got far away from it, a gigantic tree came crumbling down right where they would have been sitting. I would be worried about the tree catching on fire since they left the fire burning in the fire pit. I’m glad the father had the wherewithal to move everyone. By the way, did you know the dad told them so? 😂 Have you ever had a huge tree fall on or near your house or other structures or maybe had a close call?

👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈

28,459 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🚨 American Biker Was Able To Enter The Pennsylvania Donald Trump Rally By Simply Jumping A Fence, Walked Right By The Same Roof The Shooter Was On “We could've brought anything in there. I saw police. They saw us. They never stopped us. I'm very concerned about this” “This is Sergeant of Arms, Bikers for Trump. — Something very important happened yesterday. We all know about it. But I wanna share it with everybody because I've been trying to get this to the right people. ‌ I went to that rally yesterday in Butler, Pennsylvania. It's about 40 minutes from me. So I drove up on my motorcycle, me and my girlfriend, and, uh, when we got there, a cop told me I had to park an hour away. It was extremely hot. So I decided not to do that. ‌ I cut down a side street, saw a lady, asked her if I could park park my bike in her yard. She said yes, and she told me how to get into the rally a back way. So me and my girlfriend followed her directions, went up to an end of a cul de sac, went down a dirt road into the woods to a 6 foot fence that was surrounding a big field that was a part of the venue. We climbed over the 6 foot fence, walked past some people, under a yellow police tape, and walked right by that building where the shooter was. I could have gone on that building. ‌ I'm a supporter. But if I was a hater, I could've got on that building. I could've brought anything in there. We could've brought anything in there. I saw police. They saw us. They never stopped us. I'm very concerned about this. There was either an extreme lack of ability on the part of the Secret Service and the police to do their job or something's going on here. I'm making this video so I can get this message out to the right people. ‌ Somebody wasn't doing their job. I walked right by that building. I looked in that building. There was nobody in that building. There was nobody on top of the building. ‌ We went up to the line. We stood for about a half hour 45 minutes. It was just too hot, so we left the same way. We went back down past that building where the shooter was. He wasn't on it yet. ‌ It was about 4 o'clock, back through the yellow tape, back up along the fence, through the woods, and left. Nobody stopped us. Nobody said a word to us. Not a policeman. No one. ‌ I'm very concerned. I'm trying to get this message to somebody in the Trump family or somebody in authority that can get to them. It's very, very important. I'll stop here”
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🚨 American Biker Was Able To Enter The Pennsylvania Donald Trump Rally By Simply Jumping A Fence, Walked Right By The Same Roof The Shooter Was On “We could've brought anything in there. I saw police. They saw us. They never stopped us. I'm very concerned about this” “This is Sergeant of Arms, Bikers for Trump. — Something very important happened yesterday. We all know about it. But I wanna share it with everybody because I've been trying to get this to the right people. ‌ I went to that rally yesterday in Butler, Pennsylvania. It's about 40 minutes from me. So I drove up on my motorcycle, me and my girlfriend, and, uh, when we got there, a cop told me I had to park an hour away. It was extremely hot. So I decided not to do that. ‌ I cut down a side street, saw a lady, asked her if I could park park my bike in her yard. She said yes, and she told me how to get into the rally a back way. So me and my girlfriend followed her directions, went up to an end of a cul de sac, went down a dirt road into the woods to a 6 foot fence that was surrounding a big field that was a part of the venue. We climbed over the 6 foot fence, walked past some people, under a yellow police tape, and walked right by that building where the shooter was. I could have gone on that building. ‌ I'm a supporter. But if I was a hater, I could've got on that building. I could've brought anything in there. We could've brought anything in there. I saw police. They saw us. They never stopped us. I'm very concerned about this. There was either an extreme lack of ability on the part of the Secret Service and the police to do their job or something's going on here. I'm making this video so I can get this message out to the right people. ‌ Somebody wasn't doing their job. I walked right by that building. I looked in that building. There was nobody in that building. There was nobody on top of the building. ‌ We went up to the line. We stood for about a half hour 45 minutes. It was just too hot, so we left the same way. We went back down past that building where the shooter was. He wasn't on it yet. ‌ It was about 4 o'clock, back through the yellow tape, back up along the fence, through the woods, and left. Nobody stopped us. Nobody said a word to us. Not a policeman. No one. ‌ I'm very concerned. I'm trying to get this message to somebody in the Trump family or somebody in authority that can get to them. It's very, very important. I'll stop here”

Wall Street Apes

430,629 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

While the Wellfleet Nebraska tornado of 2025 had many extremely photogenic and memorable moments, perhaps my fondest memory was shortly after saving the semi-truck drivers life by stopping him from driving into the tornado, as the tornado nearly died but roared back to life. While not its most photogenic moment, I was yards away from the vortex, hearing its hiss as it spun the sand of the Nebraska sandhills into a slurry. Watching the video again, I feel like I'm back there, hunkered behind my vehicle to protect me from flying debris or hail. As the tornado came back to life I laughed because I had already spent such a long time dancing with this twister, I couldn't believe the show might go on. And it even got BETTER! See the full 35 minutes of RAW footage of this chase and another 85 minutes of other tornadoes of 2025 in my latest video. Link in comments.
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While the Wellfleet Nebraska tornado of 2025 had many extremely photogenic and memorable moments, perhaps my fondest memory was shortly after saving the semi-truck drivers life by stopping him from driving into the tornado, as the tornado nearly died but roared back to life. While not its most photogenic moment, I was yards away from the vortex, hearing its hiss as it spun the sand of the Nebraska sandhills into a slurry. Watching the video again, I feel like I'm back there, hunkered behind my vehicle to protect me from flying debris or hail. As the tornado came back to life I laughed because I had already spent such a long time dancing with this twister, I couldn't believe the show might go on. And it even got BETTER! See the full 35 minutes of RAW footage of this chase and another 85 minutes of other tornadoes of 2025 in my latest video. Link in comments.

Aaron Jayjack

222,833 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Eagles DE Brandon Graham on what he remembers about the 2022 and 2023 games against the 49ers: “I just remember us knocking them out in 2022 and they were just complaining the whole offseason, 'man, if we ain’t lose Brock Purdy'. But then they came back in. They came in blacked out too. I ain’t even know until we got out. I said man they came in like it was gonna be a funeral, and it was that day. I give them a shoutout on that. We didn’t have our best in 2023. That was a tough one because they got their get-back on us, but they coming to the Linc again this week.” via: Brandon Graham Unblocked
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Eagles DE Brandon Graham on what he remembers about the 2022 and 2023 games against the 49ers: “I just remember us knocking them out in 2022 and they were just complaining the whole offseason, 'man, if we ain’t lose Brock Purdy'. But then they came back in. They came in blacked out too. I ain’t even know until we got out. I said man they came in like it was gonna be a funeral, and it was that day. I give them a shoutout on that. We didn’t have our best in 2023. That was a tough one because they got their get-back on us, but they coming to the Linc again this week.” via: Brandon Graham Unblocked

Coach Yac 🗣

458,436 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Sometimes it is best to just get things off your chest… So here it goes I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Friday night was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. This tornado was just… Different. It was scary. It was loud. It had a growl. It was a terrifying beast in the dark that literally destroyed a town. My only views were when the lightning illuminated this monster. Each flash it got closer and closer. It’s not appropriate to go into detail about what me and Frankie experienced being one of the first few people in town (post tornado). Everyone is probably well aware of what we observed and more. It’s a part of violent storms like this one. ——— Prior to the tornado hitting town, I was inside the city limits of Rolling Fork. I knew a tornado was about to strike and there were NO sirens going off. There were people out and about, going about their lives. We honked the horn over and over on the storm tracker hoping people would see it (wrapped in storm graphics) and put two and two together. The destruction this tornado left behind was something I hope I never see again. It changed me as a person, but for good too. I’m even more fueled to warn people, learn more, improve warning process and study these massive storms we observe. For those of you who have reached out, thank you. It means a bunch. I’m good, I’m okay. I took today off (from chasing) and spent some much needed time with family. I’ll be back at it this week. 🤙🏻
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Sometimes it is best to just get things off your chest… So here it goes I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Friday night was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. This tornado was just… Different. It was scary. It was loud. It had a growl. It was a terrifying beast in the dark that literally destroyed a town. My only views were when the lightning illuminated this monster. Each flash it got closer and closer. It’s not appropriate to go into detail about what me and Frankie experienced being one of the first few people in town (post tornado). Everyone is probably well aware of what we observed and more. It’s a part of violent storms like this one. ——— Prior to the tornado hitting town, I was inside the city limits of Rolling Fork. I knew a tornado was about to strike and there were NO sirens going off. There were people out and about, going about their lives. We honked the horn over and over on the storm tracker hoping people would see it (wrapped in storm graphics) and put two and two together. The destruction this tornado left behind was something I hope I never see again. It changed me as a person, but for good too. I’m even more fueled to warn people, learn more, improve warning process and study these massive storms we observe. For those of you who have reached out, thank you. It means a bunch. I’m good, I’m okay. I took today off (from chasing) and spent some much needed time with family. I’ll be back at it this week. 🤙🏻

Zachary Hall

715,258 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

Been hard at work covering this outbreak of tornadoes from yesterday and finally getting some time to post. This morning I interviewed Tony Matulis who survived a powerful tornado just South Gosport, Indiana last night as his house was completely destroyed around him. He tells me his brother, who lives in a camper out back came running in and pounding on the door screaming there was a tornado coming. They had just enough time to get into the bath tub and cover themselves before the tornado hit and destroyed both the RV and home. But, there was some heart warming news as this morning they found out their chicken Wall-E survived the storm! #INwx AccuWeather
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Been hard at work covering this outbreak of tornadoes from yesterday and finally getting some time to post. This morning I interviewed Tony Matulis who survived a powerful tornado just South Gosport, Indiana last night as his house was completely destroyed around him. He tells me his brother, who lives in a camper out back came running in and pounding on the door screaming there was a tornado coming. They had just enough time to get into the bath tub and cover themselves before the tornado hit and destroyed both the RV and home. But, there was some heart warming news as this morning they found out their chicken Wall-E survived the storm! #INwx AccuWeather

Aaron Rigsby

26,674 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Worries of Tornadoes and severe weather is just life in the Midwest. But, born and raised here, I can tell you I feel extreme uptick. I visit yearly after years away. My Spidey Sense went off because despite T-storms today it remained humid and hot. And… midnight was met with a light lightning storm and constant growl. Like…constant cloud-to-cloud lightning. 20-minutes later the tornado warning hit with sirens blaring. In a way, I was surprised but also not. I felt it coming, my youth was exactly this. This is the first storm I recorded on my return. I used to stand outside my Illinois driveway, skies green and ominous watching the black wall of clouds drop like waterfalls and black cotton candy — until the air got cold, rain fell, and storms passed. #tornado #severeweather #illinois
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Worries of Tornadoes and severe weather is just life in the Midwest. But, born and raised here, I can tell you I feel extreme uptick. I visit yearly after years away. My Spidey Sense went off because despite T-storms today it remained humid and hot. And… midnight was met with a light lightning storm and constant growl. Like…constant cloud-to-cloud lightning. 20-minutes later the tornado warning hit with sirens blaring. In a way, I was surprised but also not. I felt it coming, my youth was exactly this. This is the first storm I recorded on my return. I used to stand outside my Illinois driveway, skies green and ominous watching the black wall of clouds drop like waterfalls and black cotton candy — until the air got cold, rain fell, and storms passed. #tornado #severeweather #illinois

Fran Mirabella III (FM3)

20,941 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

🌪️ Tornado Aftermath – I-57 South of Effingham, IL (02/19/26) 🚨 A possible tornado crossed I-57 south of Effingham, Illinois, on February 19, 2026, near Edgewood, causing multiple vehicles — including cars and semi-trucks — to be blown off the roadway and severely damaged. Several individuals sustained serious injuries and were transported to the hospital by ambulance. All victims were alive at the scene. The incident led to major traffic disruptions, with I-57 backed up for several hours as emergency crews responded and cleared the area. Contact Curtislergner@gmail.com for licensing. FYI: I want to clarify that recording accident scenes and storm damage is legal, and Illinois State Police did not raise any concerns about my filming. As a storm chaser, documenting severe weather, damage, and related incidents — including rescues — has been part of my work for over 10 years. The individual involved in this incident was alive at the time, and the purpose of the video was to inform the public about a serious accident, injuries, and traffic impacts following a tornado-warned storm.I chose to remove the video out of respect for the family after being contacted, not because I was required to do so. Fellow professional chasers have also confirmed that the footage was legal and focus remains on responsibly chasing storms, documenting severe weather, and providing accurate reporting to the public. #Illinois #ILwx #Tornado #I57 #EffinghamIL #EdgewoodIL #SevereWeather #StormDamage #TrafficAlert #WeatherNews
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🌪️ Tornado Aftermath – I-57 South of Effingham, IL (02/19/26) 🚨 A possible tornado crossed I-57 south of Effingham, Illinois, on February 19, 2026, near Edgewood, causing multiple vehicles — including cars and semi-trucks — to be blown off the roadway and severely damaged. Several individuals sustained serious injuries and were transported to the hospital by ambulance. All victims were alive at the scene. The incident led to major traffic disruptions, with I-57 backed up for several hours as emergency crews responded and cleared the area. Contact [email protected] for licensing. FYI: I want to clarify that recording accident scenes and storm damage is legal, and Illinois State Police did not raise any concerns about my filming. As a storm chaser, documenting severe weather, damage, and related incidents — including rescues — has been part of my work for over 10 years. The individual involved in this incident was alive at the time, and the purpose of the video was to inform the public about a serious accident, injuries, and traffic impacts following a tornado-warned storm.I chose to remove the video out of respect for the family after being contacted, not because I was required to do so. Fellow professional chasers have also confirmed that the footage was legal and focus remains on responsibly chasing storms, documenting severe weather, and providing accurate reporting to the public. #Illinois #ILwx #Tornado #I57 #EffinghamIL #EdgewoodIL #SevereWeather #StormDamage #TrafficAlert #WeatherNews

Chicago & Midwest Storm Chasers

93,267 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

3 years ago tonight, a violent tornado tore through the town of Rolling Fork, MS. The aftermath was and still is the most humbled I've ever been in 18 years of storm chasing. I remember pulling into Rolling Fork just after the tornado passed, we had shot this video SW of town, so I didn't know if it was a direct hit or a graze. Initially I thought the tornado may have passed just north as I could only see relatively minor damage in front of us. We were still in the RFD so visibility was rough, but as the wind decreased, a lightning flash revealed that everything around us was flattened. We spent the next hour or so pulling residents out of rubble on Mulberry Street. The fire and police station had been hit, so recourses were limited and I remember feeling helpless, not knowing what to tell people what to do after we got them out. I'd just say something like, "go towards the main highway and hang tight" as I assumed surrounding cities would send crews shortly. It felt like an eternity but soon EMS from Vicksburg and Yazoo City swarmed the town and we were able to leave. I've spent some time talking to people from Rolling Fork after this tragic event and it sounds like things are getting back to some sense of normalcy. I hope to visit again soon and reconnect with some of the folks we met on that terrible night.
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3 years ago tonight, a violent tornado tore through the town of Rolling Fork, MS. The aftermath was and still is the most humbled I've ever been in 18 years of storm chasing. I remember pulling into Rolling Fork just after the tornado passed, we had shot this video SW of town, so I didn't know if it was a direct hit or a graze. Initially I thought the tornado may have passed just north as I could only see relatively minor damage in front of us. We were still in the RFD so visibility was rough, but as the wind decreased, a lightning flash revealed that everything around us was flattened. We spent the next hour or so pulling residents out of rubble on Mulberry Street. The fire and police station had been hit, so recourses were limited and I remember feeling helpless, not knowing what to tell people what to do after we got them out. I'd just say something like, "go towards the main highway and hang tight" as I assumed surrounding cities would send crews shortly. It felt like an eternity but soon EMS from Vicksburg and Yazoo City swarmed the town and we were able to leave. I've spent some time talking to people from Rolling Fork after this tragic event and it sounds like things are getting back to some sense of normalcy. I hope to visit again soon and reconnect with some of the folks we met on that terrible night.

Max Olson

29,763 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten