{"id":4258,"date":"2011-11-14T16:35:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2011-11-14T16:35:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:35:48","slug":"weather-channels-mike-bettes-takes-risk-taking-storm-chasers-to-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/weather-channels-mike-bettes-takes-risk-taking-storm-chasers-to-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Channel’s Mike Bettes takes risk-taking storm chasers to task"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A storm chasers flipped vehicle is seen on the side of an Oklahoma road last week. (YouTube \/ TornadoVideosdotnet)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Getting the latest and most dramatic storm footage has become a popular way for many storm chasers to fuel their hobby and many have turned it into a lucrative business.\u00a0 The actions by some in the chaser community and the risks they take have once again come under scrutiny, this time by the Weather Channel’s Mike Bettes.<\/p>\n

Andy Gabrielson, a prolific storm chaser, was involved in a rollover accident last week while chasing a tornado in Oklahoma.\u00a0 Video of the crash was captured by his own dash cam and video cameras of other chasers<\/a> who assisted him afterwards.<\/p>\n

Mike Bettes opined in an ‘Open Mike’ segment last week, “The one thing I always hear from professional chasers is how safety is their number one concern and warning the public is their number one priority.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I can B.S. on that one. When you’re getting hit by debris and you’re flipping your car while pursuing a tornado, you’re not very concerned about your safety or anyone else’s.”<\/p>\n

As storm chasing has become a more popular hobby, fears are rising that it is only a matter of time before someone gets killed in pursuit of a storm.<\/p>\n

The Natural Disasters Examiner wrote an analysis of the debate and has the video of Gabrielson’s crash.\u00a0 Head over there to check it out.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Getting the latest and most dramatic storm footage has become a popular way for many storm chasers to fuel their hobby and many have turned it into a lucrative business.\u00a0 The actions by some in the chaser community and the risks they take have once again come under scrutiny, this time by the Weather Channel’s … Continue reading Weather Channel’s Mike Bettes takes risk-taking storm chasers to task<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[544,67,137,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}