[Skywarn] Pilger, Nebraska tornado photo: Why stormchasing has become unethical.

[Lloyd Colston]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Standorroh <standorroh at gmail.com> wrote:

> In his article he also personally attacked Reed Timmer.  Evidently, he has
> never seem him break off chasing to help in rescue efforts.


Mr. Timmer got hammered on the WX-Chase list ...
https://lists.illinois.edu/lists/info/wx-chase ... because of it too.

He broke off the chase to "help" and showed video of his efforts ... in
cutoffs and flip-flops ... standard equipment for trained Community
Emergency Response Team folks ... NOT.

There's plenty of blame to spread around ... media for encouraging
untrained people ... chasers for modeling unsafe behavior ... Emergency
Managers for failing to adopt Skywarn as the LOCAL program it was designed
to be.

When one points one finger, there's three pointing back.

Lets learn from the mistakes of others and do better.  After all, I won't
live long enough to make all the mistakes all by myself.


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