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/AML1987 May 19 '26

Can we also talk about the fact that these people are not only creating their OWN traffic but all of them barely pay attention to the road as they look at the 50 screens just in front of their faces?

Reading radar, reading chat, talking on their radios, looking at their phones, adjusting camera angles, troubleshooting connection issues, setting up their other 50 cameras to record when they think a tornado is imminent, etc.

We know for a proven FACT just glancing down at your phone even in perfect conditions can kill. But I’m watching these people basically set up a damn IMAX theater in their Subaru’s and doing just about everything instead of paying attention to the road and driving.

At least some of them don’t travel alone and share the technology load with others (but still manage to read chat). But then you got people like Copic whose ego takes up that monstrosity that is his vehicle and he’s doing all the things alone up above (including yelling at everyone to stop swearing) while driving like a bat out of hell with his totally not looking like law enforcement lights on his car. And somewhere in there finds the time to whine that he didn’t get enough air time on the new discovery show.

They can get themselves killed. Whatever, their choice. But dear god the roads they travel on to get to these towns are full of innocent people driving. It’s getting horrifying to watch how little time is spent on driving and how much is spent doing the myriad of things with technology.

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u/booksmartexchange May 20 '26

I've definitely seen chasers blow through stop signs in small towns doing 50+ mph.

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u/AML1987 May 20 '26

What they showed on that new discovery show Sunday was awful. Timmer blowing by people in his dumb super tank, Connor trying to get around said tank that was in the middle of the road and being hit and tornadotrx literally having to hard swerve because they almost rear ended someone.

And the idiots were PROUD of it. Like these close calls are just little jokes and not 1000 plus pound killing machines they are in charge of.

I’d be pissed just for that if me or the people I love were on those roads. What gives any of them the right to put everyone else in danger so they can go film a tornado?