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[Mark Blue]

Roger Hill offers his opinions on the influx of new chasers. Screenshot of the Amarillo area is included from a Tweet. I know this was discussed in another thread recently so I thought it would be beneficial to those interested in that event.

"Confluence of events could spell chaos" for storm chasers

A combination of damaged roads from flooding and clogged arteries from converging chasers may make for a dangerous situation

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Bob Schafer]

The Tim Samaras/Carl/Paul tragedy is once again juxtaposed with the gridlock story, whereas most of us already know the two had nothing at all to do with each other.

 

[Randall Bragg]

Several news stories locally here in OKC on "chase convergence" and gridlock. They have added the fact of flash flooding occurring Monday and Tuesday (May 20th-21st) and chasers getting stuck or having no escape route available. The news continues to say that storm chasing "tourists" visit Oklahoma this time of May and that this "attraction" is a problem for professional and TV chasers trying to get real-time updates to local residents.

These news stories will continue and hopefully today will not add any tragedies/fatalities to a concerning problem in our field.

 

[John Robinson]

Yet another article about storm chasing hordes. But this one is much more widely distributed, since it originated in the Washington Post. And later linked by Drudge, too.

The mobs are ruining storm chasing

 

[Warren Faidley]

They can write a million stories about this problem, but until they have the guts to address the root causes, it's just click bait.

 

[Douglas Kiesling]

This just in tonight, the first clip from Simon Brewer and Juston Drake pretty much sums up what we have been hearing about with the bad driving. Only quick thinking and situational awareness kept them out of being in a wreck as the idiot in the pickup truck decided it would be a great idea to make a U-Turn on a two lane highway with traffic behind him, in a hail storm.