1898: Some day someone will lose their life driving an automobile - - it's only a matter of time.

1911: Some day, someone will lose their life flying an airplane - it's only a matter of time.

(also insert Nordic and alpine skis, water skis, snowmobiles, skate boards, snow boards, etc. etc etc. to quote the late Yul Brenner.

I saw that video on the weather channel and CNN the other day. Scary stuff. I couldn't help but think of the movie "Twister," when the guys in the black SUV got sucked up in the huge tornado and thrown back to ground in a fiery explosion. Yikes.

OK, this was a cooler video than Recycling Dragon. But this one was scary. I can't believe they turned around and followed it!

Despite its size, that was probably an F0 or F1 tornado. Any more, and they probably wouldn't have made it.

Without a doubt the winds couldn't have been THAT strong or their vehicle would have not stayed on the road.

They were (stupidly) close to it. They should have abandoned their vehicle and taken cover in the roadside ditch.

Might not be so lucky next time. And given their "success" in evading death (play on CNN, MSNBC, etc) will only encourage others to get close enough for that awesome video footage.

wxthr: I agree-- I don't think they were in the tornado, but on the very edge of it. It looks like they're immediately adjacent to the funnel at one point.

I believe there was a radar outage at the time they drove into the tornado. That said, I think they pushed the limit for a good video to stream on the web.

i'm not sure, were they in the tornado?

I have no idealistic problem with what they did. Those guys know exactly what a tornado can do to them and its a risk they are willing to take. They know perfectly well that if one of their safeguards - in this case a working radar - goes kaput, then they very well could go kaput. By the way, I love watching these things....that said, wxthr is exactly right about that they should have gotten out of that car and lied flat anywhere...if it wasnt an EF0 or 1 then they very well may have not made out unscathed. For twister videos, theres a wild one of the Suffolk tornado on youtube where a homeowner has his camcorder on and goes to the front window and all you see is this wedge heading right at him from about 100-150 yards across a field. Search "Suffolk Tornado (Raw Footage) April 28th 2008" and its easy to find. Now that is terror. And good youtube.