Intense Chaser Surge Video Of Isabel

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Intense Chaser Surge Video Of Isabel

#1 Postby wxvine » Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:35 am

-Just Released-
Hurricane Chaser's Slammed By Storm Surge - South of Nags Head, NC
Thursday September 18, 2003
Video By: Geoff Mackley

The video below shows how intense it got as hurricane chasers Geoff Mackley and Jim Edds are over taken by the storm surge. Watch as the SUV's just about get washed away! The video is about 2 minutes.

Video Gallery:
http://www.weathervine.com/hurricanes/i ... surge.html

http://www.weathervine.com
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#2 Postby chris_fit » Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:45 am

amazing
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#3 Postby GulfHills » Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:58 am

Unbelievable!! He's lucky he didn't get swept away while filming.
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#4 Postby Guest » Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:06 am

WOW................Great shots! Thanks for sharing.............In fact im gonna make this a sticky for right now untill the members, Chad, Marshall and Ticka see it and see what they can do with it!
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#5 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Sep 19, 2003 6:00 am

Wow...intense is right!
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#6 Postby shaner » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:11 am

And to think some people are actually complaining that Isabel was overhyped. That's a nasty storm.
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#7 Postby janswizard » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:22 am

Thanks, wxvine, for sharing that with us. I'm a registered member at your website so I catch the updates via email. Glad you joined us at Storm2K.
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#8 Postby PTrackerLA » Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:48 am

What an awesome video, thanks for the link!
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#9 Postby gpickett » Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:32 pm

What a pair of idiots. Maybe they should try out for the next jackass movie.
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#10 Postby themusk » Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:52 pm

gpickett wrote:What a pair of idiots.


That was more-or-less my reaction, too.

Ever hear of the concept of "modeling"? People imitate what they see other people do. The instinctive human response to this film is to ignore what it shows about the danger of storm surge and key in on the behavior of the humans in the film clip-- including, of course, that the people put themselves in the path of the storm surge. Not everyone is mature enough or intelligent enough to override that instinctive reaction with their intellect and better judgement.

The media, right now, is modeling some incredibly inappropriate behavior for the public to emulate. Film clips like this kill people. If I was an emergency program manager, and the media descended upon my doorstep to display themselves dangling at the edge of disaster, I'd do everything in my power to force them out.

Murderers!
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#11 Postby Anonymous » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:16 pm

From this video I have learned that a beach is NO place to be when storm surge is overtopping a highway. Man that video is INTENSE!!!

I didn't realize the waves were THAT intense!!! They were washing clear across highway 12!!!! That was SOME cane!!!

When the emergency peeps tell you to leave the coast because of an approaching hurricane, that means LEAVE!!!! There's no two ways about it.



-Jeb
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#12 Postby alicia-w » Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:45 pm

Look at some of the pictures around of what happened to Hwy 12, that guy is lucky he didnt get whacked with a chunk of asphalt, let alone get decapitated by an RV.
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#13 Postby VanceWxMan » Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:29 pm

Great video! I really enjoyed watching that one! I bet they made their money as well :D

Aaron
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#14 Postby HurricaneQueen » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:06 pm

Enjoyed thevideo but it crashed my system. :cry: Guess it was time to clear the cache anyway.
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#15 Postby pawlee » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:30 pm

now that was a good vid! thanks for sharing!
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#16 Postby Guest » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:50 am

That was great stuff thanks
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#17 Postby btangy » Sat Sep 20, 2003 12:06 pm

Incredible. That guy getting washed away in that one scene. Gotta be a little insane to do that.
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#18 Postby Pburgh » Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:50 pm

Totally amazing.

I'm a great swimmer and have my lifesaving but I was almost swept away by rip tides in the Outer Banks. It's rough at it's best!!!! I can't imagine what that was like!!!
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