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Hi. I'm Mike. I am a professional storm chaser, and I drive a 4runner. Specifically, she's a barely broken in 05 v8 SportEdition 4x4. I have some cool plans for my black beauty. However, to truly understand this S.H.I.T., you must look into the past...
S.H.I.T.
Severe Hail Intercept Team
It all began back in 2008. We came up with the acronym after a few hours of smoking pots and playing GTA San Andreas. It was just a joke at first, but then we realized we had seen over 50 tornadoes, and only seen baseball hail 2 or 3 times. Finding the big hail on purpose is harder than finding the tornado. That, and we missed quite a few tubes because we didn't want to bust out any windows. Sometimes you have to punch through the hail to get to the sweetspot...
So we decided to use the acronym and build a roof-rack that fully protected the windshield, and even a little protection on the sides and rear... The Tahoe became the SHIT. A lot of the chaser community thought it was fun, and we even had a cameo on the (now defunct) Discovery Channel show...
I had chatted with Reed a few times, and he knew we were the S.H.I.T. So when they passed us to get to this tornado, Discovery edited this to make it look like we were cockblocking them. In reality, the tornado had already crossed, they didn't pass us until a full minute after that. He screamed "get around this f*cker SCANTLIN GOOOOO"(Scantlin is my last name).
So that's the original SHIT. I miss the tahoe, but I sure as hell don't miss the mountain of problems she had... onward...
S.H.I.T. 2.0
Shit2 was supposed to be a Subaru. I went through 3 different booroos and never did the build because of financial situations and chasing full-time with Team Dominator.
94 Grannywagon
one of the early February blizzards in Tulsa
cute supercell structure 4-22-2011 Gainesville, TX
Piedmont, OK EF5, Falcon Lake addition. This was a rough day for me. Watched the mile wide beast cross Waterloo a couple miles in front of me. First on scene, a minute behind the tornado. Being there and helping before fire/ems is quite a sobering experience. This day I found a 2 year old baby boy clinging to life after being tossed 200ft from his home with his 3 year old brother and 4 year old sister. That's a story for another day...
Rare Osage County, OK tube in the hills. 7-18-2011
Surprise sunset lightning June 2011
97 Impreza Sedan
Nice supercell structure, NW OK September 17, 2011
November 7, 2011 AMAZING tornadoes near Snyder, OK
https://youtu.be/-PjHe0nPdRs
05 Impreza RS
lightbarz
Which brings us to SHIT3. My black beauty.
I have some big plans for her. My goal is to make the shnitwagon capable of safely taking world record hail-stones(8 inches)
Plans:
white Line-X exterior, cheesy news station wrap on the doors
steel bumpers/sliders/roof rack all tied together with external roll cage
hail/debris protection that lowers over all windows, air or electric actuators?
various wind/weather sensors
maybe a small lift?
air compressor and definitely one or two fire truck horns.
S.H.I.T.
Severe Hail Intercept Team
It all began back in 2008. We came up with the acronym after a few hours of smoking pots and playing GTA San Andreas. It was just a joke at first, but then we realized we had seen over 50 tornadoes, and only seen baseball hail 2 or 3 times. Finding the big hail on purpose is harder than finding the tornado. That, and we missed quite a few tubes because we didn't want to bust out any windows. Sometimes you have to punch through the hail to get to the sweetspot...
So we decided to use the acronym and build a roof-rack that fully protected the windshield, and even a little protection on the sides and rear... The Tahoe became the SHIT. A lot of the chaser community thought it was fun, and we even had a cameo on the (now defunct) Discovery Channel show...
I had chatted with Reed a few times, and he knew we were the S.H.I.T. So when they passed us to get to this tornado, Discovery edited this to make it look like we were cockblocking them. In reality, the tornado had already crossed, they didn't pass us until a full minute after that. He screamed "get around this f*cker SCANTLIN GOOOOO"(Scantlin is my last name).
So that's the original SHIT. I miss the tahoe, but I sure as hell don't miss the mountain of problems she had... onward...
S.H.I.T. 2.0
Shit2 was supposed to be a Subaru. I went through 3 different booroos and never did the build because of financial situations and chasing full-time with Team Dominator.
94 Grannywagon
one of the early February blizzards in Tulsa
cute supercell structure 4-22-2011 Gainesville, TX
Piedmont, OK EF5, Falcon Lake addition. This was a rough day for me. Watched the mile wide beast cross Waterloo a couple miles in front of me. First on scene, a minute behind the tornado. Being there and helping before fire/ems is quite a sobering experience. This day I found a 2 year old baby boy clinging to life after being tossed 200ft from his home with his 3 year old brother and 4 year old sister. That's a story for another day...
Rare Osage County, OK tube in the hills. 7-18-2011
Surprise sunset lightning June 2011
97 Impreza Sedan
Nice supercell structure, NW OK September 17, 2011
November 7, 2011 AMAZING tornadoes near Snyder, OK
https://youtu.be/-PjHe0nPdRs
05 Impreza RS
lightbarz
Which brings us to SHIT3. My black beauty.
I have some big plans for her. My goal is to make the shnitwagon capable of safely taking world record hail-stones(8 inches)
Plans:
white Line-X exterior, cheesy news station wrap on the doors
steel bumpers/sliders/roof rack all tied together with external roll cage
hail/debris protection that lowers over all windows, air or electric actuators?
various wind/weather sensors
maybe a small lift?
air compressor and definitely one or two fire truck horns.
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