Ok, I spoke at length with Safari Jay Sanet via several emails last week when their ridiculous site and bus pictures came up...Although he seemed to skirt the issue of everyone else's photos on his site, he did tell me THEY shot the tornado pics at Mulvane.
When I asked who they were, how did they have 20 yrs chase experience, when NO ONE has heard of them, where did they chase, all that, I received this in return:
<Dave...
Thanks for your good wishes.
I'm not the storm chaser in our organization. I chase the paperwork.
Charlie Johnston is our Chief Meteorologist and tour leader. Charlie is
the Navy's chief forcaster at weather station Oceana in Virginia Beach,
VA. He's also a veteran storm chaser. We had to overcome some obstacles to get him early retirement. The Navy didn't want to let him go. Tom Allinder is also a former Naval weather guesser. Tom's wife is a former USAF weather guesser and veteran storm chaser.
We are going to do our very best to help bring storm chasing to the
forefront of American and European adventure travel vacations. It's an
exciting business sector and we are proud to be part of it.>
Sounds like another awful made-for-tv weather disaster waiting to happen....I let it go at that, since guessing the weather at Virginia Beach is a little different than driving their armored Partridge Family bus through an 80+ mph RFD blast. I had to learn that stuff, so will they I suppose.
They'll probably be gone next year, let's just hope no one is hurt or killed, or sent to Oz in that horrible looking bus.