Would you take the risk?

By Isabel Vargas

 

As some of us know, there have been some tornados in parts of, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi and somewhere there are always storm chasers taking a big risk in recording these dangerous storms.

The tornado in Louisville, Mississippi was this past Monday, April 28^th.

Most people would run away from tornadoes because of extreme fear or danger, but one brave person, Scott Peake, a storm chaser drove towards the tornado this past Monday and recorded very closely. The tornado crossed the road right in front of Scott, but luckily Scott was not harmed. Even though Scott is a storm chaser, it is still very risky to chase after a storm. Scott records videos for Basehunters Chasing. He uploads the videos that are usually 4-5 minutes long on YouTube with viewings more than 22,000 views on each one.

Another storm chaser, Nathan Rohrbough also records videos for YouTube but his videos are far more dangerous than Scott’s. In another storm in Tupelo, Miss. Nathan drove into this tornado. Nathan is very fortunate to still be alive to tell others what happened. He drove so far in the tornado that in the video he recorded, his voice is not audible anymore because of the tornadoes extremely loud wind. This is not the first time Nathan is close to danger due to taking risks when recording tornado videos for YouTube, he still takes the risk every time. Some of the comments on his YouTube videos criticize Nathan for putting himself into this amount of danger. Escaping just in time only with minor injuries, he has had three of his trucks windows smashed.

Nathans videos also 4-5 minutes long are viewed more than 56,000 times.

These storm chasers take a big risk in chasing after these dangerous storms and driving through them while taking videos.