Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/16/twister-sequel-anticipated-to-spur-a-wave-of-amateur-storm-chasers.html
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Me and over 43,000 of my fellow citizens watched a YouTuber called Max Velocity during yesterday’s massive twister and storm run that ran through the midwest. He had cameras running from storm chasers pretty often. It looked fun, but not something I’d try lightly.
He did, a few times an hour, tell people that it was a dangerous job.
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Unless you count the made-for-TV Bruce Campell movie that was raced into production so it could feed off the free publicity of Twister, which had an identical plot and was released the same week.
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So we aren’t counting all those other 'nado movies?
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But the TV version had Bruce Campbell, so it was obviously superior…
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Who would you want to have your back in the middle of a storm: the guy who survived a bad trip to a dinosaur-themed amusement park or the guy who survived an army of the undead?
ETA: I may have misremembered which movies the cast of Twister was in but whatever
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y’all go ahead and chase those twisters all over hell-and-gone, to your little hearts’ content. i’ll sit here and just watch the hurricanes as they come straight to me.
i can see a hurricane and follow that, in real time. tornadoes come from, like, nowhere!
hurricanes are very scary.
tornadoes are frikkin’ terrifying!
i’ll take my chances on this island over traipsing all over the midwest in active pursuit of the very type of storm that might make me incontinent with fear!
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… the ’90s were three decades ago 
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Guys in my office are obsessed with these storm chasing folks. The one they they remark on all the time “That guy just went through red lights, or he’s weaving all over the road trying to manage his stream… speeding… oncoming traffic.” Tik Tok fame I guess…
Gone are the days when a proper chaser had pneumatic ground anchors and 2-inch armour plating.
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maybe some delayed non-mandela effect? cause there was a somewhat twister-like film nearly two decades later which wasnt an asylum-ripoff but everyone seems to have forgotten;
^This. So much this.
The exterior location shoots for Twister were mostly done around Boone and Ames, Iowa, my last year at Iowa State. If you see uni-age extras in this movie, Iowa State supplied 'em. Oddly, in 5 years in Ames, there were no tornadoes. One confirmed funnel cloud the night before The Flood of '93, but that was it.
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