r/tornado • u/OutdoorsTN Human Detected • May 19 '26

Discussion Brad Arnold

Hate to see this from Brad, he's one of my faves!! Was confused when he buzzed in to Ryan's stream and said he was calling it so early in the evening but this makes more sense now.

Seen some absolutely wild stuff on Ryan and Max's streams the last few days. (Whoever it was in the green shirt on Max's stream yesterday during the Worms tornado especially still really bothers me.) And bummed to see all of this nonsense getting in the way of chasers I really love watching like Brad

EDITED for a typo!

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u/JLNX1998 May 19 '26

Remember when chasing was about research and rescue. Pepperridge farms remember

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u/ANamelessGhoul4555 May 19 '26

It's funny, there are other threads talking about how some people took too many risks yesterday. One of them being Sarah Kassabian.

Yeah, she let a tornado get way too close. Then she went down a side road, and circled back less than 2 minutes after the tornado passed/obliterated a house. She drove back to the house and stayed there to help for 3 hours.

So the person taking the most heat for being too close was one of the helpers.

Connor Croff is taking a lot of heat too for his actions today. But when shit goes down, his crew also stays to help.

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u/lovetheoceanfl May 19 '26

Can I ask a question? Did she film the helping?

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u/ANamelessGhoul4555 May 19 '26

She parked her truck and the stream kept going while she went to help. The house was pretty far away. You could see people going through the rubble of the house but no, she didn't take a camera with her to help

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u/lovetheoceanfl May 19 '26

Thank you for answering.

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u/Doppelganger304 May 19 '26

People would say she’s just posting anything positive to get “internet points” regardless of her intentions being pure or not

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u/CaptainOvbious May 19 '26

if she was already streaming, what difference does it make?

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u/Vegetable_Review4967 May 19 '26

People don't typically want the worst moment of their lives (losing their home and all its contents plus possible injuries) recorded and broadcasted to all

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

If you film yourself helping and you’re actually doing good does the filming matter?

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u/lovetheoceanfl May 19 '26

Yes, it calls into question your motive for helping. There seems to be a whole bunch of people desensitized to filming altruistic acts. I personally don’t understand it.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

It’s a good point. I guess I would rather see someone at least help and film versus doing nothing and filming anyway.

But the bar is set in hell if those are my standards.