Tim and Paul Simaras' El Reno Tornado footage - Fandom 2, 2013 1:23 pm Jun. [15] From 2009 until the show's cancellation in 2012, Samaras was a featured personality on the Discovery Channel's Storm Chasers. Grubb said a few words to his pals, as he was recently given to doing on his now-solo chases: "OK, guys, where should I go now?" | http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/storm-cha. the founder of TWISTEX, was well-known and highly appreciated among storm chasers; ironically, he was known as "one of the safest" in the industry. It is once again that time of year, when men and (a few) women load up their camera equipment and fill up the gas tanks in their tricked-out vehicles and drive hundreds of miles toward the American plains, recommencing the chase of severemeaning, to storm chasers, severely greatweather. Maribel and team are very hospitable and do very easy to go through . Two hours later, the tornado that touched down defied weather experts predictions, rapidly changing speed and direction and swelling to record-breaking sizes. 2023 Skip the Line: Body Worlds Amsterdam Ticket - Tripadvisor Video by Gabe Garfield, Special to The Denver Post. [1] His memorial service was held on June 6, 2013 at Mission Hills Church in Littleton, Colorado. One of the most senior storm chasers, Chuck Doswell, elicited silence of a different sort during his harsh lecture to the attendees: "If we want to honor Tim and his teammates, if we want to have the loss mean anything, we have to think seriously about why we need to be in close to large, dangerous tornadoesand we better have a damn good reason.". The violent winds enveloped Tim Samaras, 55, his son Paul Samaras, 24, and his colleague Carl Young, 45, toppling their car like a toy in a breeze. To save chestnut trees, we may have to play God, Why you should add native plants to your garden, What you can do right now to advocate for the planet, Why poison ivy is an unlikely climate change winner.