OT: Dangerous weather headed for St. Louis!

[Da Coach]

Some video reports-
http://www.kmov.com/video?id=120523519&sec=549502

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/23/missouri.severe.weather/?hpt=T1

 

[Bradleyguy10]

I come home to visit family and I get a night spent in the basement! Those were some intense storms...glad no one was killed (I haven't heard of any).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocbvtfpHG9M

 

[Stryker]

My roommate is a chaser and was able to get very good video of this tornado, and was a first responder to the damage at the airport. His video was on the weather channel last night and this morning and his chasing partner was just interviewed live on the weather channel about half hour ago. Pretty crazy storm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x9wJL1jvBo&feature=channel_video_title

 

[electricmayhem]

Not that it's all about money, but does he sell the video to the weather channel? great video -- so sorry to see the damage. i left stl wednesday night to come home after two days there on a biz trip.

 

[Stryker]

Yes most of the time if it is a relevent storm and they have good footage chaser will sell their live video streams to the media. Earlier this month my roommate got one of his videos on Good Morning America and the Today Show. It's not really lucrative but it can cover the expenses of the chase.

 

[jasonpeoria911]

Freelance Journalists are relatively popular in bigger cities and especially with storm chasing. Some media places don't want to pay for a news crew to be on overnight, so freelancers will go to incident scenes and shoot some video and then sell it to a TV station. A dude I know in Vancouver does it quite a bit. Some incidents pay quite a bit, pays for most of his vacations usually.

Theirs a few other chase teams out there right now catching tornadoes for a new series on The Discovery Channel this fall.

Jason