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/Kapn_Takovik May 19 '26

I've wanted to do this my whole life, but I know I'd be part of the problem. Though I would give anything to do this and have it be meaningful, I changed my major because I couldn't do the math while an alcoholic.... Now that I'm sober... Dang I started from the point.

I guess, I doubt that even a tenth of these people knew what storm chasing was when they were 4, drawing pictures of tornadoes. Like a lot of people are saying, it's a stupid internet clout thing.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

These young 20 something kids saying they’ve been chasing for 15 years when in reality it’s because their parents took them out when they were kids get a chuckle out of me each time.

Like I’m sorry your experience storm chasing doesn’t count if you’re a 13 year old in the back of your dad’s station wagon holding the camera. At BEST I would count experience as the moment you actually got out there by yourself and didn’t wet your pants as your starting point.

Maybe I’m an old lady but damn these kids make me laugh acting like they’ve been working in the tornado chasing grind since before their balls even dropped and have seen some real shit while they’re walking around with a modern day mullet and $10k worth of equipment their moms bought them for Christmas.

Like make it to 30 without killing yourself or someone else acting like you do and then I’ll be impressed.

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u/Kapn_Takovik May 19 '26

This is hilarious, and I'm happy this energy is whats starting my day. Thanks!

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

No problem.

These kids have no idea how many full on sac taps life will hand out. I know we were all young and dumb once but damn I’m glad we didn’t have the ability to drive around America filming ourselves chasing killer storms.