Risky Business

While deploying radars and instruments on storms, Adam and the Vortex 2 team often come across lots of amateur storm chasers and curious onlookers. Usually the bystanders are excited to see the armada of weather vehicles and are intrigued and polite. One day last week, the V2 group was operating close to Oklahoma City, and Adam said that there were hundreds, possibly even thousands, of people out clogging the roadways and making it difficult for the scientists to do their jobs. Worse yet, some storm chasers from the Discovery Channel were nearby, driving recklessly, and generally giving meteorologists a bad name. One of the Discovery Channel chasers is rather well-known for being defiant and negligent while driving his "TIV" (tornado intercept vehicle). Check out THIS VIDEO of the TIV and its crew endangering their own lives as well as the lives of everyone around them. And remember, these idiots are in no way associated with Vortex 2.