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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome people are brave...and some people are idiots.
Filming an F-4 tornado passing directly over your shelter falls into the latter category:
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)brooklynite
(93,878 posts)Also available here:
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/21/oklahoma_tornado_kills_at_least_91/
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Thanks!
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)you shouldn't be near a window.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)they may get severely injured, exhaust all their financial resources, and end up having to turn to Medicaid for who knows how many years. It's the same argument I use in protest of changing laws to allow motorcycle riders to go without helmets. I have nothing against providing medical care at government expense to those who need it through no fault of their own, but when yahoos go out of their way to do dumb shit without personal regard - along with becoming a public burden - then I have a problem with it.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)as both of them have been over-engineered with regard to safety. Some mountain climbers have been known to take unnecessary risks, however, in order to pursue their 'extreme' thrills. I put them in the same category as those who ride helmetless - an activity with a mountain of empirical data proving that it's one of the riskiest thing people can do. I cannot fathom why states would relent to these 'daredevils' when it's been shown that there's a good chance of paying huge bucks over the years when one of these people, for example, ends up a quadriplegic.
brooklynite
(93,878 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)brooklynite
(93,878 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)Foolhardy doesn't begin to describe the idiocy inherent to sitting in a car with that monster approaching. Hasn't everyone seen video from those official storm-chaser vehicles? Practically every one has a cracked windshield. Even if the vortex doesn't getcha, the debris fucking well can. Storms of this strength have been known to drive pieces of straw into telephone poles - not to mention the bigger stuff: livestock, roofs, other cars, etc. No matter how flimsy the construction of those houses may be, I'd still rather be inside one of them instead of risking the possibility of an aerial Nantucket sleighride followed by a less-than-graceful landing.
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)...but do you know for sure it was? It would make sense because a storm shelter is unlikely to be in someone's front yard.
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)I could be wrong, of course, but even if it's a bona fide shelter, how wise is it to stick any part of your body outside, where debris is clearly flying around like confetti?
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Seatbelt on, you have better chances surviving than say in a mobile home.
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)I would prefer seeking shelter in one of those houses than in a car - probably in the center of the main floor and if it's a bathroom, in the tub, considering that those houses likely don't have basements.
randome
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actslikeacarrot
(464 posts)...tell me that there is a very fine line between bravery and stupidity.