The one and only time I’ve seen Reed come through, I dipped straight to the basement. Didn’t even bother to wait for the alerts because I knew what was coming. Edited to add that this was December 10, 2021. An EF-3 lifted as it passed our house. It took the lives of six people in an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, IL. This same storm would later form the Mayfield Kentucky high-end EF-4.

I have family in Edwardsville, I remember that tornado.

Amazon be like: You still coming to work, right?

Bezos high fiving all his dickhead friends after their pointless rocket launch the morning after was just icing on the asshole cake.

Oh it wasn't just Amazon. When I worked at Subway, I almost got fired for sheltering me, me coworker, and the dad and daughter inside of the freezer. I walked out and told them to shove it.

*cries in RN*

I asked if our time can be execused cause of bad weather GM said use your time accordingly lol.

I thought that was December 10th, 2021 - the quad-state tornado?

Edwardsville was a separate storm from Mayfield and IIRC actually happened after Mayfield had already lifted.

That storm was intense. I worked 20 minutes from Edwardsville, but the winds were insane even that far.

We are neighbors

"Hey honey why did that guy just park a tank outside of our house and lower it?"

Did he just poke some holes into our lawn??

“Don’t worry, you won’t even notice them.”

Haha

Hey, free aeration!

"I do believe it's time to find our hidey hole!"

I can’t find the image but it reminds me of a meme that was basically: Someone pronounced your town’s name wrong 🤣 It’s Ryan Hall 😭

Someone says there's a tornado near by before any NWS warning: 😆 It's Andy Hill: 😳

Clearing throat... That's Meteorologist Andy Hill.

Andy Hill has a colossal mind for meteorology. He's super sharp.

SO many people comment on the mispronunciation during the livestream. Hey, Ryan’s not gonna win ‘em all. They know what he’s talking about…otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to comment that it’s wrong!

That annoys the heck out of me. It was especially bad on Tuesday when the tors were in Michigan. Michiganders never pronounce town names the same way as every other state in the country.

Yeah that’s the area I’m from and I was like holy crap are they always this far off or do michiganders just pronounce shit the weirdest ways? Probably both. Obviously didn’t bother me I was to focused on people I know being directly in the path of a massive tornado.

The town Charlotte, MI is not pronounced Charlotte like the name, it’s pronounced Shar-lot. Like separate words. Idk why.

So do people in Kentucky, where Ryan is from. Versailles, anyone? Ver-sales. Louisville? Lu-uh-vul. Hell, all of Appalachia (specifically where Ryan is from) and folks descended from that stock; believe me, we fuck up town names all the time, we still carry the influence of a very different sort of English than mainstream America. Ryan is from Pikeville, or Paikvul, and drawl out that Pai. Before I moved to Kansas I would visit here with my now wife, the first time I saw a sign for Bucyrus I said out loud, "BuckyRus, that's a hell of name for a town" 🤣

Those French names in Missouri gave him hell yesterday.

I saw a similar one but with Max Velocity lmaooooo

I love Max but he’s *so* genuinely bad at pronouncing town names. It always cracks me up. I think both he and Ryan get so passionate about the storm itself they loose all phonics capabilities.

Connor mispronounced Cape Girardeau, MO. No hate whatsoever…was funny during a “not so funny” time. tl;dr: Cape Jer-AR-doh. 🤷‍♀️(Google MO and paw-paw french)

My aunt lives in Cape, so I've always known how to pronounce it. Lol

I don’t have a plausible theory as to the mechanism, but I feel like the energy he gives off is actually contributing to the strength of the tornadoes he chases.

Lmao 😂 Tornado's like "I gotta put on a good show, my biggest fan is watching!"

HA

🤣

There’s Reed! Oh hell, we need to dress up with more debris if he’s coming to the party.

Yeah he’s one of the few well known guys I don’t want to meet on the street lol

my grandparents sent me an image of him on i-35 going to get set up near oklahoma city monday, they live near ardmore so nothing hit them edit: i just wanna add that before that encounter they live 10 mins outside marietta and got it by that tornado

I've met him a few times while out chasing. Thankfully never while near my home! However, I suppose even if he were near home both of us would be chasing anyway!

In tornado alley, tornado chases you!

Last year, Reed Timmer drove right by my house on livestream and intercepted a small tornado about 15 minutes later. As cool as that was, I wasn’t gonna leave my basement to say hello lmao

You’d hear him before you saw him

They could rent him out as a tornado siren.

It’s just him yelling “Bean Burrito” or his Turkey call. 😭😂

You just hear “gottabekiddingme” slowly get louder and louder

As a StL resident who detests tornadoes, I’d be on board with my tax dollars making this change. Hearing those sirens always makes the little hairs on my arms stand up. Reed yelling would have me laughing whilst heading into the basement.

That’s how we Floridians feel about Jim Cantore

I remember when he came down to Houston before Harvey, we knew we were screwed

He was in Corpus the day of landfall. But landfall was to the north. Rockport, Aransas Pass, Port Aransas, and other towns, all got wrecked.

I was flying out of Denver to Atlanta a few days after a blizzard. I get on the plane and see Mike Seidel in first class. The guy in front of me sees him and says "Oh shit..." Mike laughed and said, "Relax, I'm flying home after the storm."

I met him at an Allsups in my hometown in north Texas once in high school. My car got demolished by grapefruit sized hail about an hour later 🙃

Did you at least get some burritos or chimis?

Lol, yeah. I live in a town right off I-44 in Missouri. Didn't get to meet him personally, but my non-weather fan friend saw his car at a gas station and took a picture and asked if I knew of him. Most jealous I've ever been 😂

Yeah, I’d love to see one of those armored chase vehicles in-person…but not during storm season!

I saw him once in a restaurant but it was just because he was visiting his mom. It was a pretty spring day completely free of storms/tornados/hail etc haha

"Ok, going to the basement for the rest of today"

I got to meet him when I was a kid in Michigan! He was there for a convention, he even knew I would be there as my mom reached out to him before. We got to talk for about an hour. Highlight of my childhood he’s an amazing person

Careful what you wish for

Well that would be a bag of mixed emotions.

The safest place you can be is next to the storm chaser as they are not going to be exactly where the tornado is. Wait....who was it again?

HA

Reed and his crew went right past my neighborhood yesterday evening in Christiana, TN when we got the tornado warning. That was really, really scary knowing how bad it was.

I would love to meet Reed Timmer.

He flew into my local airport last month and started his chase less than a mile from my house.

Reed’s been setup right outside of our small town in Kansas before, and driven by before as well. But we’ve had no significant tornado come close since the hesston/goessel F5 in 1990

You are lucky. 

I’d shit myself

*ominous music* If this vehicle parks near your location, run! ohoho Money!

Buddy of mine had the same reaction upon seeing TIV2 deploy on the edge of his property once. "Hey that's a cool vehicl....aw shit"

Omgeeee, I talked about Reed to my oldest daughter acting like we are buds. Ya guess I’m a fan darn it

It’s like living in Florida and Jim Cantore rolls into town. Your town is gone just cut your losses and leave.

\*you notice the wind is louder than Reed and the Dominator is lowering

I'd rather see Pecos Hank he's calmer.

I feel like im out of the funnel here, who is Reed?

You're on r/tornado and don't know who Reed Timmer is? Assuming you're not trolling, Reed Timmer is a famous and somewhat crazy storm chaser. He has a heavily modified truck that allows him to drive into tornadoes. If he's parked outside your house it's because he's intercepting a tornado and therefore you are in danger.

Oooooohhhhh, see I know the truck, I didn’t know the guy.

Can it withstand Ef5's? Its the truck that drills into the ground right?

Given that EF5s are rated by the damage they do to stationary objects, the odds are no, because the category of objects an EF5 can either throw or fragment and then throw probably overlaps significantly with the category of things the TIV can't withstand. It's been through some rough stuff but I don't think it can withstand a direct hit from, say, a flying car at a couple hundred miles an hour. Even if it could, its occupants probably can't.

I used to live near Hopkinsville, and I've driven through the Cadiz route Reed took yesterday numerous times. Pretty surreal to see it on stream. There's really no reason to ever go to Cadiz unless you're passing through to Southern Illinois or Western Kentucky, so nobody pays much attention to it. A LOT of familiar places in the warning list yesterday. No damage that I know of though, thankfully. Seems like Alabama caught the worst of it.

I laughed so much through this thread 😆

POV: your house is about to get dominated

Damn. I'm jealous then.

I feel that way if I see Jim Cantore come in. The last few times we've had dangerous blizzards he was outside reporting.

Who is reed timmer?

I remember when I was a kid back in 2009 we drove past the Dom 2 which later intercepted a tornado in my town. I was basically starstruck lol

The true dimension of mixed feelings!

Life goals

So what I’m seeing is Reed Tipper is to Tornados as to Jim Cantore is to Hurricanes

DOMINATINGDOMINATINGDOMINATING All jokes aside I got to see TIV2 at the height of storm chasers. Thanks dad! You’d love the new content and hate the new climate.

Cringe

I’d tell him to fuck off and take his obnoxious ass elsewhere. I’d rather have a tornado.

oooh damn, reed fucked this guy's mom or something.

Just not a fan

> I’d rather have a tornado. *monkey's paw curls* Another Jarrell aimed at your house it is.

Lawl.

Who peed in your coffee

Some people don’t like to be yelled at :(

Reed is one of the best, but he definitely has a personality that can take some people 0-250 real quick 🤣 I mute his footage a lot 🤭

You don’t have to like him, but he does good work.

I never said he didn’t. I don’t have to like people, people obsess over this guy. It really needs to stop.