Storm tours: Our disaster is their thrill

[stu]

You know I was not even going to respond to this thread as the article was a TOTAL misquote and really the MH should be ashamed of them selves for printing such tosh!

I see however that it has caused an emotive theme amongst S2K ers and as I am always up for an open and frank debate I would like to expand on a few points.

Firstly – the suggestion regarding stormchasers stealing in position weather recording equipment - I would suggest that you look towards the many looters that seem to appear after a hurricane has made landfall. Every hurricane I have been in I have unfortunately seen looting – actually looters scare me more than the storm itself – remember that I really have every thing with me that they would like to take, Food, water, gas as well as laptops cameras, weather equipment etc.

Comment by the Mod ~ “Idiots” not at all helpful and therefore setting the tone of this thread from there on in and not offering anything to the debate.

But the REAL question is ~ are Hurricane Tours ethical?

I will let the debate continue from here.

As for me I will intercept Hurricanes again during 2006 – this I finance out of my own back pocket ~ I don’t sell DVD’s , I don’t profit from tours, I don’t do USA media – I am more interested in the science the forecasting and making people more aware – people back in the UK have no idea (they are lucky) what it is like to suffer a major Hurricane landfall.