Ben Engle
EF1
Being an avid offroader, i subsribe to Petersen's 4-wheel & Off-Road magazine. 4 wheelers like to use rhino liner on everything, from fenders, to underbodies, truck beds (duh), and complete inside floors of Jeeps. So since that guy covered his car in that rhino-linings, i guess they thought it would be cool to put his story in here about how he drove into a tornado;
"Rhino survives tornado"
"Steve Gren has taken the act of storm chasing to a whole new level. Not content to drive near a funnel cloud and videotape it for the evening news, Green has built a vehicle to with-stand the forces of a twister so he can drive into it. That's right, drive into it.
He did just that last summer, wheeling his converted Tough Truck racer into an F4-rated tornado in Kansas. He's not just some nut with adeath wish; Green has scientific data-collection equipment on board to help study the devastating storms. To protect himself from flying debris generated by the 150-mph-plus winds, Green liberally covered portions of the vehicle with a thick Rhino Lining coat. You can see it along the bottom of the truck in the photo. What was it like in the twister? 'I watched a tree levitate over the top of my vehicle while it was pelted with rocks, sticks, and other debris,' Green recounted. 'The inside of the tornado looked like the top of a cinnamon roll.' We'll never look at Cinnabon the same way again.
So, has anyone validated this guys story yet? I still think it's bogus.
-Ben
"Rhino survives tornado"
"Steve Gren has taken the act of storm chasing to a whole new level. Not content to drive near a funnel cloud and videotape it for the evening news, Green has built a vehicle to with-stand the forces of a twister so he can drive into it. That's right, drive into it.
He did just that last summer, wheeling his converted Tough Truck racer into an F4-rated tornado in Kansas. He's not just some nut with adeath wish; Green has scientific data-collection equipment on board to help study the devastating storms. To protect himself from flying debris generated by the 150-mph-plus winds, Green liberally covered portions of the vehicle with a thick Rhino Lining coat. You can see it along the bottom of the truck in the photo. What was it like in the twister? 'I watched a tree levitate over the top of my vehicle while it was pelted with rocks, sticks, and other debris,' Green recounted. 'The inside of the tornado looked like the top of a cinnamon roll.' We'll never look at Cinnabon the same way again.
So, has anyone validated this guys story yet? I still think it's bogus.
-Ben