Severe weather broke out across parts of the plains as a powerful storm system produced severe weather across Nebraska and Iowa with several tornadoes, high winds, and hail.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach shot this footage as a weak area of circulation and associated RFD winds blow debris across the highway south of Syracuse right over himself and other chasers.
The video then shows a very brief gustnado spinning up in a field before dissipating, likely the same area of rotation that passed over in the first scene.
Various other shots include high winds, up to 1-inch hail falling and covering the roadways near Syracuse.
Last shots taken before the storm hit, including a high-based wall-cloud that was associated with the circulation from the first scenes. Also includes structure shots of the storm.
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On March 11th, 2011 Save Japan Dolphins volunteer Brian Barnes and his companions witnessed hell on Earth, but also experienced great kindness from strangers in the wake of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Brian Barnes with http://www.StormTours.com was in Otsuchi, Japan as a volunteer for http://www.SaveJapanDolphins.org and barely escaped with his life after the earthquake hit.
His companions who were with SSCS and himself barely made it to higher ground on a nearby hill that overlooked the town before Otsuchi was completely destroyed by the Tsunami. After the Tsunami, they had to spend the night on the hill as the city was on fire. The next morning they had to abandon their rental cars since the road below them was no longer there and spent the day walking through the burning remains of the city. Brian said that the walk through what can only be described as hell on earth just to find a way back to the main road and away from the coast.
He tried his best to document the events while fearing of another Tsunami as the area was being hit with strong aftershocks.
The following shows the aftermath after the water receded before finally getting to the mountain road leading to Tono.
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New video in from Brian Barnes of StormTours http://www.stormtours.com who was in Otsuchi Japan which was near the Epicenter of the 9.0 Earthquake and north of the city of Sendai Japan.
我々は、シーシェパードをされていない、このビデオはシーシェパードを次れたジャーナリストからだった。
*** Please think before you post a comment because they were focused on trying to stay alive vs shooting video ***
He went to Otsuchi Japan as part of a volunteer group for Save Japan Dolphins (SJD) http://www.savejapandolphins.org that is operated by Earth Island Institute and lead by Ric O’Barry of the Oscar winning movie “The Cove” to document the largest slaughter of cetaceans in the world, the Dall’s porpoise slaughter.
I met up with Scott West and Tarah Millen who were there with the Sea Sheppard Conservation Society (SSCS). We agreed to go to Otsuchi together because the area has had very little western activist in it in the past and the fishermen there have shown aggressive violent behavior to those who have previously monitored the Dall’s porpoise hunt, we figured we would need to watch each others backs.
我々は、シーシェパードをされていない、このビデオはシーシェパードを次れたジャーナリストからだった。
Brian said “We were scouting out the location and were filming the docks and the Porpoise fishermen in the harbor when the earthquake hit.” He said that he jumped out of the car and tried to start filming the earthquake but it was so up/down, and back/forth that I could barely get the camera started.
In the video he shot you can see the earthquake was still shaking the area their rental car moving back and fourth. Brian said “I think my instincts with disasters from my years of Storm Chasing just sort of took over. I’ve never been in anything like that before and I knew it was major but I guess you still just see it as a natural disaster at the time and instinctively do the “chase” thing, if that makes sense. We really shouldn’t be alive.”
As soon as the ground stopped shacking we got in our rental car and were followed by another car with SSCS volunteers and headed to the top of a hill overlooking the town just before the 25 meter high Tsunami hit where we were just standing only minutes before. The time from the Earthquake to the Tsunami striking Otsuchi was about eight minutes.
The Tsunami reduced the city to ruins and the tsunami protection wall that was built to save the city was smashed and washed out to sea, everything was completely destroyed. Brian watched as the ocean recede and then rushed back in at least a dozen times where at one point the entire ocean floor was exposed. At one point we saw and heard a woman in the water screaming for help, but she was washed out to sea before they could do anything to rescue her.
“We saw cars and what was left of homes floating in the water and what was not destroyed in the Tsunami was burned up in the massive fire that started after the Tsunami.
We were stuck on this hill because the road at the bottom on either side was completely gone and had to take shelter in our rental cars for the night. The rental cars they had are still on the hill side where they had to abandon them since the road below was gone.
In the morning we got up and abandoned their rental cars on the road up on the hill and hiked back into town. They started seeing the dead bodies everywhere. A woman hanging from a tree where the wave left her, people dead in what was left of their cars, total devastation. It took us an entire day to walk out of the town, rubble doesn’t even describe what we saw. To bring home the massive destruction, Hurricane Katrina and the Greensberg Kansas Tornado, those disasters are nothing compared to this. Every car we saw was smashed along with just about every wooden home was destroyed.
There wasn’t one thing left standing, it looked like something out of a world war two film after the war ended.
We finally made it to safety after climbing over the ruins of houses and walking over burning rubble and back to our hotel in Tono before paying a kings ransom to take a taxi to Akita Japan where I’m waiting for a flight back to America.
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Raw footage shot by Minnesota Department Of Transportation (MN DOT) staff following the Interstate 35W Mississippi River Bridge Collapse of 8/1/2007.
This footage was obtained by BNVN from the Minnesota Department of Transportation that was shot by MN/Dot staff after the day after the Interstate 35W Bridge collapse.
Shot from the 10th Avenue Bridge over-looking the wreckage and in a boat on the river up next to the wreckage.
Video shows close up and wide shots of rescue crews on the bridge in the middle of a recovery and in the water from various vantage points. Various tight and wide shots of the bridge wreckage.
Additional footage shows divers in the water next to the wreckage.
Catalog: MNDot_35W Bridge_Aftermath
Total Run Time: 7;10;22
Format: SD
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The magnetic field of the earth was struck by a Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun during the late night of March 10th, 2011. The CME sparked very bright Northern Lights over Northern North America just after 11:00 P.M. local time. This video was shot in Minnesota just north of the city of Saint Cloud, MN. The video shows a very bright Aurora Borealis also known as The Northern Lights dancing in the sky. The Aurora peaked about the same time as the earth quake in Japan before Midnight local time in Minnesota.
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Heavy snow fell over central Minnesota this afternoon and caused numerous accidents along Minnesota Highway 10 just north of the city of Saint Cloud MN.
The east bound lanes of Highway 10 heading into the Twin Cities had to be shut down while rescue crews cleaned up a chain reaction pile up.
Clip 01 Rolling up to a crash on Highway 10 where a Pickup truck spun out and flipped over on its side with a woman and three young children inside.
Clip 02 Dash Camera of the woman and three kids along with a nurse that stopped to help and myself after helping the woman and children get out of the truck. Everyone was wearing their seat belts and the kids were in their car seats and were able to walk away from the crash.
Clip 03 – 06 Scenes from the crash / pile up on the north side of Saint Cloud, MN that shut down the highway for over an hour. Tight and wide shots.
Clip 07 Jeep Grand Cherokee flipped over on its roof and pan over to MN State Troops on the scene.
Clip 08 Tight shot of the State Trooper.
Clip 09 Crews working to hook up the Jeep to flip it back on its wheels.
Clip 10 Tow truck crews FAIL. The first time they try to flip the Jeep back on its wheels, the Jeep ends up back on its roof. The second time they were able to pull it back over.
Clip 11 Plow truck
Clip 12 POV driving in heavy snow
Clip 13 POV driving and passing a State Trooper with another car in the ditch.
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5/29/2008 Kearney Nebraska Footage of a tornado forming just outside of the city of Kearney Nebraska. Video continues in the city as the rain wrapped tornado goes through the city and off to the north end of town. Footage included scenes with high winds in the city and flying debris.
Catalog # 05292008_CC1_HD
Total Run Time: 11;44;22
Screen Format: 16:9
Video Format: High Definition
License Type: Rights Managed
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SID: Chris Collura
While the heavy snow hit Minnesota, BNVN Weather Paparazzi Shannon Lupton was out covering the winter storms in Madison, WI on Sunday that coated the area with ice due to the freezing rain.
Snow plows were busy trying to clear away the slush on the roads before it froze solid but it wasn’t soon enough for some drivers who ended up in the ditch or stuck in backed up traffic on Interstate 94.
After the sun went down, the temperature’s dropped, the freezing rain became thicker and coated street signs. Tree’s and automobiles were also coated with at least a quarter inch of ice.
This is a time lapse video of my drive to the 2011 National Storm Chasers Convention in Denver, CO. I started the drive from my home in Saint Cloud, MN with the camera setup to do a timelapse of the whole drive.
The route I took was down MN Highway 15 to MN Highway 60 to the Iowa boarder. Then I drove on 60 to Iowa Highway 75 to Sioux City. I crossed over into Nebraska and took highway 77 south to Fremont, NE where I turned onto Highway 30 and drove to Columbus, NE. From there I took Nebraska 81 to Grand Island, NE and dropped to Intersate 80 and followed that west into Colorado when it turned Interstate 76 and then drove into Denver, CO. Once in Denver I took 76 to east bound 70 and exited on Quebec Street.
Enjoy, Doug
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In Northwest Arkansas they received four years worth of snow with this latest winter storm today. Storm reports from the National Weather Service show at least twenty inches of snow in Washington County.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Brandon Sullivan was out in the winter storm today along Highway 412 in Far Eastern OK to Springdale, AR where he documented the extreme weather travel hazards.
The roads are next to impassable with the deep snow in the deep south as dozens of drivers were spinning out and getting stuck and becoming stranded. At one point Brandon even documented a Arkansas Department of Transportation Snow Plow being pulled out of a ditch after becoming stuck in the snow.
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Today BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was out in the snow in Denver, CO which is getting the latest in a series of small snowstorms that finally is starting to bump up the snow totals in a parched Denver, Colorado.
Over the last couple days, nearly half a foot of snow has been recorded nearly doubling the season’s totals. A fun fact, Denver has seen more snow in the January and February than it has all season. Less than 5 inches from September, October, November, and December and over a foot in what’s typically two of the driest months for snow (5th and 6th).
September (8th): 0.0″ (averages 2.1″)
October (7th): 0.0″ (averages 4.1″)
November (2nd): 1.5″ (averages 10.7″)
December (4th): 3.3″ (averages 8.7″)
January (5th): 8.0″ (averages 7.7″)
February (6th) (as of Feb 7): 4.2″ (averages 6.3″)
March (1st): N/A (averages 11.7″)
April (3rd): N/A (averages 9.1″)
TOTAL SEASON SNOW AS OF FEB 7: 17.00″
TOTAL SNOW SEPT-DEC: 4.8″
TOTAL SNOW JAN-FEB 7: 12.2″
SNOW TOTAL AVERAGE SEPT 1-JAN 31: 33.3″
Information from Denver/Boulder National Weather Service.
Video of snow-packed roads along major routes across Denver. Opens up with POV shot at I-25 southbound where I-70 merges. Other shots along US-287 in Westminster and Broadway Blvd in Denver. Shots of vehicles driving on snow packed roads.
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The winter weather in the south just keeps on hitting the area this week with another winter storm warning for parts of Oklahoma and Texas. Today BNVN Weather Paparazzi Brandon Sullivan was documenting the winter storm just to the east of Oklahoma City on Interstate 40.
The unexpected burst of snow caught drivers off guard as heavy snow fell on the interstate causing white out conditions. Several car crashes were reported by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
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BNVN Weather Paparazzi, Shannon Lupton shot the final video package to round out our epic blizzard coverage today. The video is from the Madison, WI area where heavy snow and white out conditions were around all day long.
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BNVN Weather Paparazzi Scott Weberpal was covering this major epic blizzard system along the Lake Michigan shoreline near Racine, WI at the Wind Point Lighthouse.
The video Scott produced is pretty simple to explain, BIG WAVES. The winds on the north side of the epic winter storm system that has shut down a good part of the United States was creating some major waves which crashed into the shoreline. With the air temp almost stable along the lake front at about 20F all day long, the water turned to ice almost as soon as it crashed onto the rocks along the shoreline.
Winds along Lake Michigan in the Milwaukee and Racine Wisconsin area are gusting over 40 MPH currently.
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BNVN Weather Paparazzi Justin King was out to document the bad roads around Loveland, CO this morning.
Bitterly cold air pushed into the state overnight accompanied by high winds and snow showers glazing once warm road surfaces over with 1/2 inch to 1 inch of ice in spots.
Video contains numerous vehicle rollovers from drivers going too fast for conditions. Many Colorado drivers were caught off guard this morning. Daytime temps hovering in the single digits are making driving hazardous everywhere and overnight lows are expected to be well below zero tonight and tomorrow. Video also shows EMS and Fire dept crews slipping and sliding while walking on the pavement.
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With the extreme sub zero temps in Minnesota today and everyone around here talking about “Its So Cold Out…” and tossing boiling water in the air, I thought it would be more interesting to see what would freeze solid first, Beer or Water. Time-lapsed footage of Beer Vs. Water freezing outside in the sub zero temps over a 55 minute time frame.
Just having some fun out in the extreme cold Minnesota weather today.
The City Hall in St. Cloud, MN was on lock-down this afternoon. Saint Cloud police Lt.. Jerry Edblad said police were searching the building after an employee spotted someone near an air duct opening with a blanket who ran from the building when they were spotted.
Lt. Edblad said about 80 people work in the building and were evacuated late Wednesday to the Saint Cloud Civic Center while police continued to search City Hall this afternoon. Saint Cloud police are currently looking for two suspects. One is a black male with a goatee, 20 to 30 years old with a slender build, about 6 feet tall and wearing a black hat or black hooded sweatshirt.
Mayor Dave Kleis said City Hall has been evacuated while police search the building for the second possible burglary suspect and will remain closed for the rest of the day.
The Mayor said there have been two break-ins at City Hall over both holiday weekends in which some equipment and food was taken. There are also two two safes in City Hall that were also unsuccessfully broken into.
Just after 3:30 p.m. this afternoon, Lt. Jerry Edblad said most of the search was completed off but officers were still using thermal imaging equipment in the basement to search the air ducts.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Tony Laubach was out in the snow today in Denver, CO and shot video of Denver’s first big snow of the season that promises to add well to the meager 1.5″ of snow that’s fallen so far for the entire season.
Snow totals of up to a foot are possible over parts of the Denver Metro Area through Friday morning.
Video package shot at the Orchard Town Center outdoor mall on the north side of Denver (Westminster). With an extremely busy post-Christmas week, the snow cleared out crowds entirely as barely anyone came out to the mall. Video opens up with the Christmas tree in the center of the mall and follows with various shots of the few brave souls who came out in the sub-freezing temperatures and even colder wind chills. Various shots of bundles up kids and adults along with traffic shots in the falling snow.
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Blog video of the morning show footage that I shot on 6/23/2005 in Minneapolis, MN during the record breaking heat wave. Footage shot on the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, MN just after sunrise with the farmers market.
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For the third time in less than ten days, central Minnesota has been hit hard with another winter storm that crippled the roads during the afternoon rush hour on Monday.
The Minnesota State Patrol reported dozens of vehicles had spun out and ended up in the ditch and numerous crashes around the metro and along the Interstate 94 corridor to St. Cloud, MN.
In the video it shows poor driving conditions along interstate 94 and into the metro area where several cars were off to the side of the interstate after crashing.
At the height of the rush hour, traffic along Cedar Avenue in Richfield, next to the Minneapolis – St. Paul International Airport was at a crawl with travel times take up to forty five minutes to an hour just to drive ten miles to cross the Minnesota River.
Also in the video are various clips of snow plows and snow clean up at night and airplanes taking off and landing at the airport Additional clips of airplanes being deiced.
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In Sarasota, FL this morning, BNVN Weather Paparazzi shot this video of cold ‘sand blasting’ winds on Siesta Key Beach. The southern end of the massive storm system that brought blizzard conditions to the northern states is now pushing into Florida. Most of the state of Florida is under Hard Freeze Warnings and even ind Chill Warnings for the Sunshine State.
The good news about this weather is that the surfers in Florida are loving it with high surf warnings for the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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As the extreme winter storm moved off to the east, in it’s wake it brought high winds to Lake Michigan where BNVN Weather Paparazzi and Captian Eric Treece of the Wilfred Sykes was anchored in Milwaukee Harbor. Eric brought the ship in during a winter storm. Video shows misc scenes with waves smashing into the Milwaukee Harbor Lighthouse and Breakwall. The lighthouse in the video is 61′ high and the waves were easily clearing the top of that as they crashed into it. Highest wind gust on the Sykes was 60 Mph.
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The powerful winter storm system that hit Minneapolis, MN with blizzard conditions and dumped 17 to 21 inches of snow on the area is moving to the east.
BNVN Weather Paparazzi Shannon Lupton shot this video in Madison Wisconsin that documents the extreme weather conditions as the Blizzard moves off from the Midwest to the east coast.
Various shots of snow plows on I39/90, heavy snow and wind and poor driving conditions. Footage of traffic stuck in the snow on the roadway and cars in the ditch west of Madison.
Warning, don’t try this at home. If you burn your house down, don’t blame me.
*** THERE IS NO METAL IN THE JALAPENO PEPPER ***
While cooking dinner and needing to thaw out a frozen Jalapeno in the microwave, I found that some of them will get really hot, and will actually spark like metal in a microwave.
*** THERE IS NO METAL IN THE JALAPENO PEPPER ***
The microwaves cook with waves of energy that excite the water
molecules in your food which cause your food to cook.
In just the right size frozen foods, such as a frozen Jalapeno,
the microwave will an create electrical charge in the food that
could spark.
This is really a fire in the microwave, so don’t try this at home.
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*** THERE IS NO METAL IN THE JALAPENO PEPPER ***
